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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
exam at a testing center to receive the HBX CORe certificate. HBX Courses A second piece of HBX will comprise specialized courses, with an initial lineup of faculty members and courses that includes Clay Christensen's Disruptive Strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
you to assemble your team more effectively by identifying what you need in your teammates - whether it's the CTO or the company's first couple engineers. Even in product management, technical proficiency can help better ascertain what you... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
to be inconsistent, if not contradictory. "In the ultimate analysis, however everything boils down to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Field Research Out of the classroom, Ashraf has been walking the talk by incorporating co-production into her own field research. In 2010 Ashraf was part of a research team that helped the Zambian government with a nascent national... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
of finding a cultural fit, and to the team dynamics of effective corporate oversight. READ MORE [MUSIC] Julia Hanna: When it came out in 1980, the comedy 9 to 5 played up the growing role of women in the workplace, making cheesy fun out... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
respective industries, and attendees were able to join in each discussion virtually. Gong and Dai were joined by club vice president Ted Lin (MBA 2005) and club member Mia Zhao (MBA 2021) in serving as moderators for each discussion. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
human capital, which measures the economic value of an employee's skill set and intellect. And now there's a new member of the capital lexicon: altruistic capital. "Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has within them an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
day when board members sit around the table and simply wonder how we can dig ourselves out of the hole we’re in.” On balance, the firm excels at solving even the toughest problems, as evidenced by its track record as a top-tier firm. As... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- Web
What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI | Working Knowledge
success stories include: Orange The French telecom company cleverly used AI facial editing technology in a 2023 advertisement that ran during the Women's World Cup. The ad first depicted what looked like the French men’s soccer team View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And then you’ve got to hold that... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
got out of business school when I was 23 and went to work for TWA for a couple years, and then went in the Army in the interim and then went to work for Easton for a year. But we were, on the lee here is Bob Carney, also a member of the... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
expertise in personalization developed during his time as a serial entrepreneur and a founding team member of Google+; he sets about recruiting engineers, educators, VC investors, and families to set in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
disclose extensive financial information. Thus Koehn and her team had to search high and low to try to piece together Winfrey's business model and understand her company's revenues, costs, and competitive advantage in the crowded,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
more than the average worker in US companies), in executive hiring, or in their organization’s adjustments to health or financial crises. Instead, especially in nonunionized workplaces, control over these decisions is concentrated in the hands of top executives and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman