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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
asked about what he wanted to do differently ... He and his family took a year off. The company offers six months paid. He said that he wants to offer resources to his employees to make sure that, A, they totally disconnect, because he's seen anecdotally that people... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Business School professors who have signed the petition, and asked them to share why they openly oppose the Executive Order. Here are their initial responses. David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration: Early last Saturday... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Encourage team members to speak up and listen to what they say. Overcommunicate. Even without economic turmoil remote workers can develop negative attribution tendencies, such as assuming they were left off an email chain because they are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Encourage team members to speak up and listen to what they say. Overcommunicate. Even without economic turmoil remote workers can develop negative attribution tendencies, such as assuming they were left off an email chain because they are... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
practices are really better? One clue that the old AOL Time Warner wasn't going to be a long-lasting marriage (besides keeping all the previous names) was when staff at Time Inc. magazines refused to change their email addresses to AOL.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image by HBWSK with asset from AdobeStock/ArtFamily View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration created by HBSWK using assets generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
professors (the most likely group to have strong job stability), PhDs/postdoctoral students (the least stable), and founders who had previously been employed at larger firms, small firms, and startups. In an email exchange, we asked Roche... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
not yours.” (Tarikh Korula) You should expect to commit a minimum of two to three hours per month with a coach and many offer email or text touchpoints between a regular cadence of sessions. If properly trained and experienced, external... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
do you have to stay home and care for your young child? Those things seem to be the bottleneck.” Just 5 percent of the total scientists responding to the emailed query reported working fewer than 42 hours weekly before the pandemic... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
large-size organization that has become wedded to the economies and convenience of the Internet? For example, assuming that email even exists five years from now, will we be able to use it for business purposes? Will large data files have... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
issues. Do they require complicated solutions? In the midst of all the knotty discussions, a simple proposal arrived in my email late last week. It's from Peter Solomon (one of the few "good guys" portrayed in the book Barbarians at the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: HBSWK with asset... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
that he wrote emails for work. But what she’d said planted a seed that would become The Perfect Candidate, a young adult thriller published this month by Simon and Schuster that centers on Cameron Carter, a recent high school graduate who... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
outstanding personal memories. Second, Marty would enforce shutting off sabbatical-goers access to work. This is as simple as shutting down their company phone number and voicemail, restricting corporate email access, and providing their... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
important lessons about mixing family and business. Now looking to raise venture capital, Thiers has just received an email from a general partner at a top venture capital firm, proposing another meeting and asking her to bring to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Yeah, it happens all the time. But I will tell you that when Comey came out and said, I'm reopening this investigation, all that, there was almost no movement. Most people—I mean, if you thought that the emails were fine, that this was... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
congratulating me from friends on the East Coast.” Kiran Gandhi, musician, entrepreneur: “I was buying some bananas from a 7/11 in Seoul, South Korea, when the email appeared in my inbox. I was with a dear friend of mine, Elliott Davis,... View Details