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- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
Creative thinking skills. Some people are naturally able to think outside the box. But we can all learn and improve our creative thinking skills. For example, there are techniques that involve using different kinds of visual stimulation. View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
spot. You can’t just impose things on them that are not meaningful.” Promote the incentives effectively. While this could mean sending out an email or text every other day, it could also involve something as... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
the photograph, it is hoped that many of the satisfactions of working in the early arts can be brought to a new group of photographers.” Edwin Land, "One-Step Photography," May 31, 1949 66 On Friday, November 26, 1948, the day after Thanksgiving, known View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
of the Design Thinking and Innovation AI Course Assistant chat bot in two ways: like a virtual Teaching Assistant who can help you consolidate and confirm your understanding of course concepts, and as a... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein SEP 2016 In an address at the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference, Greenwood, Hanson and Stein suggest that, going forward,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
all." In this episode of Skydeck, Platzer and I talk about how he built that mission, how it culminated in the founding of Spire, and what advice he'd give to anyone who is still searching for their own mission. READ MORE DM: When you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
service, it is helping the person send money home. He will stay with Safaricom. Plus, as soon as his wife gets the money, what do you think she's View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
issue of the Journal of International Business Studies. We asked Chua to discuss his research into professional networks and the differences between American and Chinese managers. Q: How did you go about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
in anxiety-inducing ways. Perhaps they would benefit if you made yourself more available for meaningful conversations, or if you offered more flexibility so that both work and personal demands can receive... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
“authenticity.” Rather than modifying an old-fashioned, conformist culture, the deep purpose leaders I studied try to reinvent their organizational cultures more fully as bastions of individuality. They aren’t View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
communities disproportionately face increased levels of pollution and are often more vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change. Dorceta E. Taylor’s Toxic Communities breaks down environmental racism as it relates to the siting... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
also shows how nontransferable certain business ideas are when you take them to contexts without key institutions. In fact, part of Vizio's global strategy is to only go to those markets where Costco is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
and effective in preventing severe disease, and their accelerated review will go down in history as having saved millions of lives. But COVID vaccines weren’t the first medical products to be brought to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
A: As I note in the preface, Value Shift raises many more questions than it answers. So there are several directions I am considering for my next project. But, for now, the general idea is to go more deeply... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler