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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • June 2018
  • Case

Candor at Clever

By: Ethan Bernstein and Om Lala
Clever, a high-growth EdTech company based in San Francisco, had grown quickly in market share and headcount. As with many high-growth companies, however, early employees (many of whom had never managed people before) had been given the opportunity to manage teams, and... View Details
Keywords: Performance Feedback; Talent Development And Retention; Talent Management; Feedback; Difficult Conversations; Radical Candor; Scaling Start-ups; Scaling And Growth; Developing Effective Managers; Effective Managers; First-time Managers; Kim Scott; Clever; Bay Area; Silicon Valley; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; Education Industry; San Francisco; United States
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  • 10 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

For generations, American workers have dreamed of striking out on their own, starting their own business, being their own boss—and ideally making a lot of money in the process. That sentiment appears to be alive and well today, amid an acute labor shortage that has... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

financial strategy. If the company does not have a distinctive brand or market presence, a focus on identifying an attractive customer segment, such as through Harvard University professor Michael Porter's positioning framework, W. Chan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

about the best location or locations for managerial talent, for instance, they should be aware that reallocating talent is neither costless nor easy. Interpersonal relationships and internal communication networks rise in importance. As... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

managers, according to Marc Sniukas, should "set the context; guide the process ; clearly communicate reasons ; shield creative teams ; appreciate distinctiveness in people and their thinking; and welcome change." As Dan Hoch... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

School Note 208-037 Provides the background and high-level situation of private equity in emerging markets as of the end of 2006. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208037 PlaNet Finance:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2025
  • Case

Intuit: Lobbying to Save TurboTax

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Tom Quinn
Intuit’s TurboTax software held a dominant market position in the online tax preparation market. Many politicians over the years had proposed changes that would have harmed Intuit’s business—notably, allowing the Internal Revenue Service to develop a government-owned... View Details
Keywords: Lobbying; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Reputation; Civil Society or Community; Public Opinion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Rank and Position; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; United States; Europe
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  • Web

Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

company, and Negotiation Mastery has given me additional skills that I have put into practice and have resulted in much more successful agreements. Jacqueline Ryan Integrated Marketing Manager at YumEarth Develop the negotiation skills... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and a team of researchers found that a major factor... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

with the Philadelphia 76ers, supporting front office scouting and draft preparation. Continuing a tradition of strong Black leadership After graduation, Melcolm began a five-year tenure with the NBA League Headquarters in New York City, focusing largely on View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

correlation and its disappearance are both due to market participants' gradually learning to appreciate the difference between good-governance and poor-governance firms. Consistent with learning, the correlation's disappearance was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Blog

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Categorical Processing in a Complex World

By: Marco Sammon, Thomas Graeber and Christopher Roth
In real-world news environments, quantitative information is rarely presented in isolation; it is characterized through qualitative comparisons with various reference levels. Company earnings, for example, are commonly compared to analyst forecasts, previous earnings,... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Cognition and Thinking; Communication Strategy
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  • 13 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

that is unfamiliar to you. Prior to HBS I was a clean energy engineer – not a digital marketer or consumer goods expert. The great thing about FGI is that creating a successful project requires you to do fun things in your destination... View Details
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

how can you measure, manage, and communicate impact in a public markets context? Key Themes: An impact investing (intention, measurement) strategy is possible in public markets, where “impact” as defined by... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

Understanding Variation across Local Communities Authors:Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana, and M. Tina Dacin Publication:In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

of backlash fostered by a long period of neglect of globalization’s effect on labor markets worldwide. Globalization takes many forms: common markets; free flows of workers including refugees and migrants; and multinational organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 23 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

cutbacks Previous studies have delved into the fact that the threat of prison time and fines can deter white-collar criminals from committing crimes that can greatly harm corporations, investors, and consumers alike, not to mention financial View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald