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- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
things that talented managers seek: exciting work, personal development, a balanced lifestyle, a great company, and recognition and rewards for individual contributions. It is a war led by top management, but carried out at all levels in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
great they are as individuals, reap the personal benefits of their position, and deftly blunt competition from potential inter-organizational rivals.” His point is that an age of knowledge sharing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
about the ecosystem as a whole and figuring out the right incentives for everyone to contribute can be complex, and HBS cases provide great tools to think about these issues.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
closely with our hardware marketing partners, who are responsible for ensuring we continue to build and promote great VR headsets, and with the product teams and developers making View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
had died while she was interned. And as it happens I can see the masts of Hanslope Park from where I sit here in calm rural Buckinghamshire on our election day. It's great that Ms. Elkins is teaching at HBS,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
varied so widely. A policy aimed at strengthening the banking system, for example, might seem to have little in common with a policy designed to compensate the victims of involuntary unemployment. But View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
The role of business in improving public education, reducing welfare dependency, and revitalizing urban areas was the subject of a stimulating forum held at HBS on April 6-8. View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
the Great Recession. The New Economy proved to be vastly over-hyped. In light of continued advances in such things as artificial intelligence, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
The founder, Arthur Demoulas, had two capable sons, Mike and George, who joined him in his little store, took it over, and then built a great supermarket business. The founder... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
on such shifts is available. They also controlled for conditions during the Great Recession, to see if the pattern held even in recession. It did. Three fewer people move into... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 18 Feb 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
U.S. Competitiveness: An Economy Doing Half Its Job
The HBS U.S. Competitiveness Projects report on the most recent alumni survey highlighted a troubling divergence in the U.S. economy. Middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are many small businesses. Professor Jan Rivkin will focus on aspects of the U.S.... View Details
- November 1997 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Herbert Hoover (A)
Presents a character sketch of Herbert Hoover, along with Hoover's views on the cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Illustrates the political economy of the period and presents different interpretations of the course of the Great Depression. A rewritten version... View Details
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Herbert Hoover (A)." Harvard Business School Case 798-041, November 1997. (Revised June 2006.)
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
Bazerman, the paper is a great illustration of the collaborative process among the various schools at Harvard. "Working with Iris Bohnet and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
from a Field Experiment, authored by Harvard Business School marketing professors Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas. “With so many people and resources at stake, the design of the sales force compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
being the real culprit. While social networks claim to be enabling great social causes, users are starting to understand they're being milked indirectly for money. There's a sense of betrayal, a feeling that... View Details
- April 2013
- Article
Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters)... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Power and Influence; Health Industry; United Kingdom
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation." Management Science 59, no. 4 (April 2013): 819–836.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From observers to active participants in the global economy
second-largest and second-most populous continent. “Over the next several decades, Africa will build on the energy, skills, and aspirations of many of its people, offering a View Details
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
On this Mother’s Day, as we reflect on the past year, the impacts of COVID-19 on working mothers deserve our attention. I have heard many people equate the COVID-19 pandemic to... View Details
- 25 Oct 2023
The MBA Tour: India, South Asia, & Central Asia
Interested in learning more about the Harvard MBA? Join us on October 25th at The MBA Tour: India, South Asia, & Central Asia hosted by GMAC. This virtual event is a great... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
look for meaningfulness as something that happens to us. We have a great vacation, and we're thankful that we do. We have a great marriage, and we put work into it, but we're thankful that fate brought us... View Details