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- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
Uncertain Environment? Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change Following the adoption of a collective bargaining agreement in 2005, National Hockey League GMs had one month to absorb the new rules and put... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
New Advanced Browse Feature
We want your feedback on a new way for readers to "drill down" into HBS Working Knowledge articles. Called Advanced Browse, this capability allows you to search for articles that meet multiple criteria simultaneously. Let's say... View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
searching for valuable information that is relevant to them. They also want to be entertained, and the 'hard sell' that turns them off can be at the level of simply presenting the brand's logo for more than... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
After nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth, strategic consulting firms are now facing one of their most challenging periods in memory, prompting widespread cutbacks in staff and changes to recruiting. How did these firms get to this... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
value than e-commerce, such as immediacy, curated selection, or allowing touch and feel of non-digital experiential goods. Thinking of online shopping as a compliment and an opportunity, rather than as a... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
be," she says. "The search for meaning is something that many intellectuals don't let themselves explore, because they feel like it would be against reason. But it is tragic if we feel that reason and faith... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
blind them to other goals that don't come with a bonus attached. In the search for other solutions, Lakhani and London Business School professor Kevin J. Boudreau started with a simple hypothesis: instead of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
management of tensions caused by the simultaneous need for such things as short-term and long-term performance, the exploitation of existing ideas and the search for new ones,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
can have positive impacts on innovation and entrepreneurship. After experimentation, policy makers are able to pick and choose among a variety of policies to implement those that work best. While some... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
recognize that expressing dissent can be very difficult and uncomfortable for lower-level managers and employees. Therefore, leaders cannot wait for dissent to come to them; they must actively go seek it out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
these marketplaces is that they mitigate one of the biggest problems borrowers and lenders face: search costs. Typically, these marketplaces earn revenue by charging a small fee on top of the loan if the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
courted earlier, but at the risk of destroying future trust in search of immediate "in-house" profit. They can force suppliers, consumers, competitors, and complementors to bend to their will in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain stores as well as “pineboards,”... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
endowments, sovereign funds, and wealthy families. Most of these securities are yielding from zero to 2% annually. There is a giant search for yield in the financial markets. There is also massive need for... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
One economic problem is search costs—the time, money, and effort spent on researching which dog to adopt. Another is information asymmetry—in which one person involved in an economic transaction has more... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details