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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
massive volumes highlights the importance of telling that story through the letters, memos, reports, books, and images that provide a lens for examining the past to better understand the present—a need that has become no less essential in an online, digitized world.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
rented 75 PCs for participants in the Program for Management Development. The Bulletin noted that the new technology enabled "a quick consensus on the numbers and allow[ed] a focus on the real issues of a case." In 1985, a Bulletin cover... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and consumption. We conclude with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the important emotions that central banks should focus on. More ambitiously, contentment might be considered... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
new jobs that were created in early-withdrawal states totaled roughly $900 million. Yet some 3 million workers lost $7.6 billion in benefits—cash that no longer flowed into state economies—the researchers found, citing US Department of Labor statistics. To View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools “financially and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
focus on the educational side because that’s what’s needed immediately?” she asked. “The crisis emphasizes the necessity of agility.” Within days, the Mayor’s Office redirected their efforts to help schools “financially and... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
future employment opportunities). However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift-by offering a raise (with no additional conditions) after the employee has accepted the contract-does lead to higher productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
buy, and both have merits that we’ll dive into again and again in future podcasts in the series. One is what’s called a funded search. There’s a population of investors who are eager to invest in searchers, and they do this again and... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
recommendations on how future research can be enriched through a systematic examination of how entrepreneurial ventures navigate the organizational dilemmas growth presents. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
blockbuster products. We're in a very interesting time—how the power struggle plays out will have great consequences for the future of media and sports. Q: Does the advance of digital technologies bolster or threaten the blockbuster... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
focused on salespeople come about? Walter Friedman: [HBS professor and coeditor] Geoff Jones and I have been trying to have each issue of Business History Review focus on a theme. In the past four issues we've had one on the late HBS... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
million from advertising. The new CEO had to decide which of these three revenue sources he should focus on in the future and how this choice would influence the target customers, the service offerings, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student clubs, MBAs organize gatherings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
involving entrepreneurship throughout the curriculum. As his visit to his daughter’s fifth-grade class suggests, Life Sciences Project Director and Senior Research Fellow Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has a boundless enthusiasm for the life sciences revolution. His 2001... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved functions/firms and to the rest of the organization or supply chain, and focus the paper on studying the circumstances under which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
trillion-dollar plans to attempt to mitigate carbon. Businesses, homeowners, and local governments must focus on what can be done today to address these direct threats to people and property. There are three major tools in the “what to do... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
allowed Valley. "We're making choices that are much more multifaceted, and we think about negotiation in a much more complex way than some men. In that sense we're really expert negotiators." Asked by a member of the audience about how to maintain enough... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace