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- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
I found my professional North Star as an undergraduate student while studying abroad in rural Tanzania. Our work in clean water access was a light bulb moment for me, clarifying the ways in which business and social impact can work... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
which business and social impact can work together to be a force for good in the world. Business is a driving force in our world, whether we like it or not. So, what are we going to do with that driving... View Details
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Trust
By: Sandra J. Sucher
In this research, I aim to provide a practical orientation to trust—how to build it, how it can be damaged, how it might be repaired—grounded in my experience as an executive and in the research on organizational trust and moral philosophy. As a case researcher, I... View Details
Keywords: Power; Globalization; Leadership; Corporate Culture; Future Of Work; Innovation; Human Resources; Technology Strategy; Automation; Stakeholder Engagement; Employee Attitude; Customer Behavior; Shareholder Value; Government And Business; Impact Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North And Central America; Trust; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North and Central America
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Finding the Platform in Your Product: Four Strategies That Can Reveal Hidden Value By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Elizabeth J. Altman Abstract—Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
A majority of commuters admit to multitasking on the road, including texting and reading emails, according to new research that reveals the widespread extent of distracted driving. About 87 percent of commuters are engaged in at least one... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Keep Your Weary Workers... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Weston Presidio Capital, a later-stage venture-capital firm, recalls, "There was a good mix of cases, both domestic and international, addressing the different investment philosophies of venture-capital... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
functionality the company used, such as a pricing system tied to the company’s commodity hedging positions on a real-time, as well as off-the-shelf systems, for recording financial transactions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
that thinking about a job as a relationship could serve job seekers in other fields. If you are reading this, you probably have the good fortune to have made some choices about the jobs you took or are going to take. Prestige View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Government, and the International Economy, making good use of his long-standing interest in international business. In 1981, for example, Crum started working to create the Nomura School of Advanced... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
course, it requires more time spent looking within ourselves and less time looking outward. Is this even a good way to think about our accomplishments? Our lives? Our happiness? When is the last time you’ve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
know the costs and benefits of joining a particular platform, adds Clough. “We’re acknowledging that developers often don’t have good information.” Wu became interested in hackathons as a doctoral student at... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
are good reasons to expect that partisanship will continue to cloud economic judgment around the 2024 election.” It’s not just credit analysts. Similar patterns have been documented among professional asset managers, loan officers, View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
more self-belief and confidence as you go in the door. But if you come out of a submarine, the way I did, it takes a good few months before you start to believe that you deserve your place in the classroom.... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Terumo (A)
By: David Godes, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki
Terumo faces two challenges: how to sell its catheter products in the U.S. and its new “Solution Pack” in its domestic market, Japan. The case provides rich detail on the firm's evolution from a manufacturer of thermometers to a seller of commodity products like... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Global Strategy; Sales; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
Godes, David, Masako Egawa, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Terumo (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-068, February 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
likely to be overlooked for top assignments and promotions. As partners and friends, we are checked out and unhappy. Rebels—those who practice “positive deviance” at work—are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too
Although I did not know it at the time, my path to business school began on March 1, 1992. It was my ninth birthday, and I was enjoying the liberty that came with growing up on a farm on the outskirts of a small mining community in Ohio:... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
and with limited financial resources.” Skills needed now: Empathy; maintaining self-control and focus. Let’s build your new executive toolkit The skills needed to conquer these challenges are not possible... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
In the first wave of globalization, MNEs sought access to resources, and governments frequently gave them exclusive contracts and favorable deals in order to build businesses. The major management challenge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne