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- 22 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Master the One-on-One Meeting
the agenda. Ask if there’s anything else to add before you dig in. Always leave a door open—sometimes an employee is holding back on something. If there are hard things to discuss (maybe some tough performance feedback), try to bookend it...
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by Julia B. Austin
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Podcast - Business & Environment
India by making it affordable and accessible. SUN Mobility’s battery swapping model has the potential to overcome the factors that have held back market penetration of electric vehicles in many places: high upfront costs, “range anxiety”...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
the end of the one-child policy, and ethnic tensions. Others focus on China’s relationship with other nations, particularly the United States. If America pulls back from its Asian commitments, how will China assert its growing strength in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Freddie Mac, with about 50 percent of all mortgage credit going through these firms. They were able to take extraordinary risks with their implicit government backing and failed spectacularly in September 2008 just before Lehman went...
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- 21 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Living in a Dorm at HBS
for running home in-between events/classes if needed when you forgot something! What’s the biggest benefit to living on campus? On campus living is so convenient for getting to class (the commute from door to door is 5 minutes walking). I...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
Measuring success from 5 million resumes The researchers focused on entrepreneurs backed by venture capitalists, but they faced a challenge right off the bat. How do you measure success for job holders in different roles in industries as...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
home in Dallas to his parents’ place in Ruston, Louisiana, the small town of about 22,000 where he grew up. While there, the kids, then two and three years old, started running a fever, which would eventually register around 104 degrees....
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
price increases do not predict lower returns going forward, these increases do predict substantial heightened probability of a crash. Simple attributes related to the price run up can help predict both the crash probability and future...
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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Danone. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/613003-PDF-ENG The Big 3 Roar Back William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 412-072 The "Big 3"-Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler-were all headquartered in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
figure. Without open source software and their ubiquitous code-creation networks, firms would pay an estimated 3.5 times more to build the software and platforms that run their businesses, or roughly $8.8 trillion, say Harvard Business...
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- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
they get there." Not only do CEOs struggle to learn how to run a company from a lonely role at the top, but they often quickly find that the network of coworkers they relied on for years are no longer faithful allies. “They don’t realize...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
impact on business results, it's usually too late to make course corrections that will set things right. Therefore, it is wise to go through a self-assessment, to periodically step back from the bustle of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
display announces the day’s run of show. Beginners get designated time in the morning so that they can play in the forgiving company of other newbies; intermediate and advanced players get their own dedicated time slots, too. One of the...
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- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
2008 book, Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a...
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by Dan Morrell
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
Fuld persistently rejected advice to seek added capital, deluding himself into thinking the federal government would bail him out. When the crisis hit, he had run out of options other than bankruptcy. It's lonely at the top, because...
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by Bill George
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
transforms the experts' probabilities into their corresponding information states, then linearly combines these information states, and finally transforms the combined information states back into the probability space. Analytically, we...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcome relationship results from specialized teams who see higher volumes of specific conditions that leads to better outcomes. A well run integrated practice unit accululates more and more experience leading to better teams, more...
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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
Companies looking for the best possible leaders—and leaders looking to become CEOs—would do well to heed the model of private-equity (PE) backed companies, which often look outside their ranks when hiring for the top job and see excellent...
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Nikita Ramanujam
It was supposed to be a week of celebration—after a year of distance learning during the pandemic, the public elementary school in Oakland where I taught had reopened. We were finally back together as a community! But the celebration...
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