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- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
continue their enrollment in food assistance, in food stamps. The process is much harder than it should be or needs to be, and some of that can actually be solved by designing a service with the user in mind as opposed to a government... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
cooperative efforts of many of us. This will contribute to the future prosperity of the region." Hayes's remarks were something of a starting gun that set the assembled minds racing. As HBS faculty took the floor in succession,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
very narrow slice. They know exactly the kind of customer they're looking at and they can go at them. Of course, this was subject then to other influences like the Russian influences, but I just felt that this goes way beyond Cambridge Analytica. What went through my... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get there first and get it right is... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
And they're, in our minds and in other people's minds as well, very good investors, specifically when it comes to science-based companies. And so really this was, to my mind, kind of the be all and end all.... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
insatiable drive to acquire cannot be fulfilled, even by a steady increase in wealth, if one is steadily falling behind others. This may be illogical—a Porsche is a Porsche, no matter what's parked in the driveway next door—but it is the way our View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
world's best minds to engage Gates's challenge. From Warren Buffett, who seconds Gates's analysis, to Lawrence Summers, who worries about the consequences of multiple corporate objectives, the essays cover a broad spectrum of opinion.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
going to be in this sort of shipping container form factor. DM: There's a lot to do before the first modules arrive. MK: So I would say that the two biggest things on my mind right now are probably our permitting strategy—this is fairly... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
a high bar and we've got a great culture there. But I've got to be mindful of those kinds of things. That having a world-class organization means having a way of onboarding and helping people understand the culture and understanding where... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
weekend deadline for a new cooling room. With 20 local businesspeople due to arrive for a tour and lunch, Viana had grabbed a broom without comment and began sweeping up the sawdust. Never mind that he had two secretaries at his last job,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
to copy certain colleagues on pertinent emails. "People want to increase their power by keeping that information confidential," Hall says. "But you have to make sure you cc the right people. It's important to keep in mind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
you in to think about the concept of privacy," she says. "We argue that oftentimes, privacy isn't something that's at the forefront of people's minds until you cue it." To further test this argument, the researchers repeated their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
David A. Frankel
failures,” Frankel recalled. One success was Healthbridge, which grew into the largest independent healthcare data processing company in Africa. Despite his obvious entrepreneurial and investing skills, Frankel felt a relentless itch. The HBS acceptance sat untended in... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
psychology, cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice per week that showed them, for example, how to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
actions, and remembering there’s a little mind always watching and observing what we’re doing. If I can do this, I have no doubt we will raise a wonderful daughter. As we celebrate Mother’s Day, take a minute to tell all the moms in your... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
or more mindful drinking is bigger than just Vanessa and myself. So we said, let’s see if we can create a product that actually serves that market.” After a lot of trial and error, Tilden launched a line of non-alcoholic cocktails in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from companies that keep his theory in View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
reached only the twelve trailers in an adjacent trailer park, but I didn’t know that. I was in radio! Who is the RadioChick? I used to say the RadioChick is a guy’s best friend that you also wouldn’t mind — how shall I say it for a family... View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
As academics, a lot of us had in our mind that while the press is out there, it's the analysts—who are the people that we train—and the investors—who are the people that we interact with—who really uncover information. One of the reasons... View Details