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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
reorient based on the new realities. While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes together, relaunches act as resets. The COVID-19 pandemic upending routines calls for relaunches to help leaders and team members... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
expand their knowledge or capabilities? A: If you know the exact specific behaviors you want, stretch goals may be just fine. But, if you want employees to engage in other pro-social behaviors (e.g., helping others in the organization) and/or to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
them come to you," Deighton adds. DoubleClick's area of expertise involves its ability to package media on the Web to meet the goals of marketers and its employment of technology to facilitate using the Web as an advertising vehicle. In addition to View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 03 May 2023
- Blog Post
Five Ways to Build Community at HBS
hours for fellow admits during the spring. By the end of our series of 13 calls, I was surprised how many people reached out to share that they decided to become roommates after chatting on my calls, or decided to travel with someone they met on a call. View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
wasn’t behaving inappropriately—Simmons acted like her champion. She held out hope that if she established enough of a professional reputation she could jump categories, from sexual object to respected colleague. The Show’s soundtrack was... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
early Facebook fad, planking is the act of lying face-down in an incongruous place. It is the epitome of digital narcissism and any hint of motive other than "look at me" just clouds the picture. By contrast, the ALS ice bucket... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
and Active Labor Act of 1986 requires all emergency departments to address critical health needs regardless of the patient’s ability to pay. This informal coverage, the researchers write, is “disorganized, stressful, low quality, and... View Details
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
socializing; keeping team members informed about stressful situations; addressing subordinates' negative feelings; and disclosing personal information); (3) recognizing good work privately and publicly; and (4) consulting subordinates about the work (asking for team... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
that’s the one subject she wouldn’t touch. My father stopped talking to me, except during sporadic episodes of theater we put on in front of friends and relatives – we’d each act our part of a happy, normal, family. Mid-show he’d sneak in... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Portrait Project
Angel Gonzalez
know broke down in tears and when it dawned on me that maybe we were poor. These acts of kindness and the helplessness I felt that day have stuck with me and shaped who I am. I made a commitment to self-improvement through education,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
programmatic change, running tens of thousands of people through education aimed at changing their attitudes and behavior. Change must be led by local leaders and involve people in shaping their own destiny. Corporate staff groups can support it, but it is the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Dissertation - Social Structure and Mechanisms of Collective Production:Evidence from Wikipedia
Andreea's dissertation research examines social networks in the setting of collective production, defined as collective action oriented towards production of collective goods - goods available for consumption by all members of a group whenever they... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
his final offer was closer to the union's original demands than it was to his own. 2. Demand And Define Reciprocity Labeling your concessions helps trigger an obligation to reciprocate, but sometimes your counterpart will be slow to act... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
multiple roles and ties can be confusing to coordinate. Relatives can experience role confusion (should I act as a father or boss, a daughter or vice president?) and struggle over the appropriate role to play in a particular negotiation... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
developed world.” Brown’s 'special sauce' Four-to-six-member teams manage the firm’s main investment funds, each with its own strategy. All members act as managers and analysts. They research leads, evaluate potential investment ideas,... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
the customer would do in the future. As with other artificial intelligence tools, the drawback to this technology is that the model acts as a sort of black box, so researchers can’t determine the exact factors that trigger predictions.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
had wanted to achieve at Apple from its founding in 1976 to his firing in 1985. He still believed that the future was all about the computer. He agreed to act as an advisor to Amelio, promising to “help Gil in any way he asks me to,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s. Stavros concluded that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
quickly. The shift has happened in days, not months. Businesses may be able to learn how to move faster, acting in more agile ways, as a result. Amy C. Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson) is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman