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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in... View Details
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
luncheon were so moving, and they showed me how much this community cares for Jim, who was doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work before it was a thing. It made me feel empowered and excited to build upon Jim's legacy. Cash House has... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
requirements or social norms, but because we are altruistic; we care intrinsically about the welfare of others. In this paper, we illustrate for these types of decisions how confusion may arise because the distinction between our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few months I realized that I was... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
environment or bar is, I don’t care about that. What I need to hear is from somebody who has a family who stayed there and that’s where that 85 percent number comes from. Q: And everybody has different lenses that they experience things... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
Massachusetts. During the bubble, the most valued skill was the presumed ability to predict what hot concept could go public fast. Now the pendulum has swung back to valuing entrepreneurial skills first and foremost. There’s also a renewed appreciation for the amount... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
(B)." It is one of the failed ventures cited in those cases. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/610027/ Intel NBI: Vivonic Harvard Business School Case 610-025 Vivonic was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives that sought... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
challenging work environments. This article focuses on two such contexts—health care and education. The authors theorize differences in psychological safety based on work type, hierarchical status, and leadership effectiveness. Consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Argentina and Chile? These leaders had an inside-looking-out view during this much of this time—what do we learn from them? A: These interviews supplied both contextual and personal information simply not available elsewhere. Unlike the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
leave his whole world in Texas to follow me. Until, he did. Fast-forward another 1.5 years. We successfully navigated HBS, made our studio a home, survived winter, and discovered new hobbies during a pandemic. We also learned to argue, manage stress, and take View Details
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
research initiatives and strategic priorities, this trajectory is not sustainable long-term. Maintaining a careful balance between investment and fiscal responsibility is paramount. By continuing to carefully monitor the relative growth... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
and other forms of amusement and recreation, no matter how much leisure we may have. After men and women have spent respectively an estimated five and eight hours a week on the care of the body and personal... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
around the world who want to study its practices. The Clinic's journey also holds lessons for organizations outside health care that must suddenly compete by creating a superior customer experience. The authors, one of whom was critical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Both personally and professionally, right? So I wonder, where do you see opportunity and what gives you hope? TS: Yeah. What gives me hope is my great confidence in human ingenuity and innovation and capitalist incentive that will reward... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
mere agent for shareholders, it will likely find it hard to justify significant resource allocations resulting from decisions based primarily on altruistic motives rather than company-related needs. Several of these companies were founded by individuals with a strong... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
retail store allow her to feed her family, gain equity, and send her children to school. (Carielle Doe/Mercy Corps) McKenna had followed the story as it unfolded in the news. She had long admired the work of Mercy Corps, especially during her time as COO of the aid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
toughest thing was the feeling that I wanted to write a book worthy of its subject. That’s difficult when the person has a wide array of interests and knows everyone in the world. Also, doing justice to the management story and the human... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details