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01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

kinds of changes he studies have taken place over long periods of time. And they run much deeper than such things as short-term educational reform or job retraining. Why is it, then, that there is so much fear of outsourcing and... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

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Your Coach Will Help You Become a Better Leader

include reflection, feedback, assessments, experimentation, and action planning in a safe, totally confidential, and supportive environment. Depending on the program format, coaching might take place in person, virtually, or in a blended... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

that it would lose a great deal if its bid failed. Because its threat to counter your bid is not credible, you decide you will place a bid. The day before you are to announce your bid, your competitor's CEO says at an open meeting that he... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

not about how well you answered questions in an interview. You need to put in place processes that give you more data about the person’s behavioral fit.” And once on staff, workers benefit from constructive feedback. So companies should... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

can amplify them and give them greater reach. Whether you experience a physical, learning, mental, sensory, or developmental disability, or are the caretaker of someone with a disability, you have a place and a voice here! We aim to work... View Details

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Citation guides

students can have EndNote installed by contacting TSS at ithelp@hbs.edu or 495-6600 to place an order. There is a charge for the software. SeeView Details

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

There’s a time and a place for it,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. “It can even be dangerous if you’re not careful about when, how, and to whom you express passion.” Passion can be intoxicating When... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

entrust their money to one of the big investment banks or brokerages—Citibank, Chase, Merrill Lynch, or Bear Sterns—which then invests it for them in hedge funds. Funds of funds, the word is on Wall Street, are the next bubble—the next View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

07 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Living Off Campus at HBS

a student living off campus I did not feel like I was at a disadvantage socially. The majority of off-campus students live within two blocks of my apartment, and many after class events take place in the bars and apartments around Harvard... View Details

05 Jun 2023
What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

book. We all would like both time and money. But this generation appears, at least for now, to place a higher value on time, personal development, and lifestyle than on maximizing income. In addition, many Gen Zers have an aversion to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

embodiment of such values became a beacon of hope, fortifying my spirit and endowing me with the strength to persevere day by day. Several more years passed before I relocated to Boston for employment, following the completion of my undergraduate education. It marked a... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial crisis of 2008-2009. Through the lense of a simple model of optimal bank regulation, the authors enumerate three core principles. They argue 1) single constraint should be used in place of multiple constraints on bank equity... View Details

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

traditional economic thought—which places self-interest as the guiding principle of human motivation—our findings suggest that the reward experienced from helping others may be deeply ingrained in human nature, emerging in diverse... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Corporate Strategy Development group and that was really life changing for me. I hadn't realized that corporate strategy at a place like Nike existed,” Leahy says. Nike was also where Leahy learned the power of building, growing, and... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

solely on the Gini, we would treat places like Teton and Monroe County the same. But that may not be the right thing to do. "Reducing inequality can be achieved by both reducing the difference between low-income and medium-to-high-income... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

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Pharmaceuticals: Drug sales data

interest. Data can be displayed on a map or in a table. OECD Library - often have high level pharmaceutical statistics. ScienceDirect - Through literature search, one may find useful datasets from existing studies. This database can be a good View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

will be engaged in every item of behavior that takes place at work. Likewise, all the other people engaged with the focal organization—its customers, its shareholders and creditors, its suppliers, its neighbors and its regulators—will... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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