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- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
for a startup founder, according to research by Andy Wu, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at HBS, and HBS doctoral candidate Aticus Peterson. “As entrepreneurs gain experience, they get worse at... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Jun 2022
- Book
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
fresh new language so that you can explain, both to yourself and to others, what is occurring for you within each of the Four Element arenas. This movement from access to implicit knowledge to finding new language for what is implicit is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
books, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, maintains that too much economic theory, formed by "Econs," is based on the behavior of homo economicus (economic man, someone with the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
founders do switch to industries much different from the one in which they have the most work experience.) Schilling visits the class to discuss how his transition from one industry to another forced him to question and adust his View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
years of the institution, it has been less of an indicator in more recent years, says Werker. Instead, the countries that seem to be overrepresented reflect a kind of "soft power," more adept at working behind the scenes in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
(Susan Young/Harvard Business School) “What do you think?” is a question that has graced case method discussions at the Harvard Business School for the past 100 years. The question reflects long-held beliefs by some members of the View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
might serve the study of consumer behavior. An HBS professor since 1991, Zaltman's work actually cuts across a number of boundaries. He's a co-director (with Stephen M. Kosslyn, Professor of psychology at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When driving... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 11 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
delegate responsibility for designing and implementing plans to achieve those ends to the maximum degree possible." Joseph B. Fuller (@JosephBFuller), professor of management practice and co-leader of the HBS Managing the Future of View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
the past two decades by following an approach its founder calls “the Walmartization of healthcare.” The hospital delivers world-class results for cardiac patients, provides an excellent work environment to... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
proactively reduce the uncertainty for themselves and their ecosystems by preempting the effects of COVID-19 even before contagion arrived in their countries. Faced with the emergence of conflicting safety protocols across the regions... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
leadership in practice; and leadership development. Q: What are you working on next? A: Related to the study of leadership, the Dean and the HBS Division of Research generously funded two subsequent... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
incentives, many operational problems can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings: interorganizational because the medical supply company deals with a hospital group and the video store acquires its products from movie studios. In a talk he gave to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
Assistant Professor George Serafeim, coauthor of the working paper Short-termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk, with HBS doctoral candidate Maria Loumioti and Assistant Professor Francois Brochet. "We... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
How Institutional Theorists Can Help Solve Big Business Problems
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
which Norton and fellow HBS Associate Professor Francesca Gino found that rituals indeed alleviate and reduce grief, even among people who don't inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. Further experiments showed that ritualistic... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel