Dreams - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

this years ago.” So, recognizing the complexity of people’s real lives around us, a question that I want managers to ask themselves is: “What do I need to do specifically to honor the dreams of my subordinates?” Because what we’re really... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

eventually evolved from manufacturing motorcycles to inventing a revolutionary light business jet—fulfilling a lifelong dream to improve mobility and exemplifying the longevity and continuous innovation that characterizes so many Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

home by asking, "As HBS alumni, don't we have an obligation to lead out on this topic and set an example? We must encourage, cajole and inspire each other to make the American dream available to all. But we must also be free to choose."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

23 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry... View Details

Keywords: Education; Financial Services

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

it’s time to look for a new job. To learn more about evaluating your current position, read Dina Gerdeman’s story, Bad at Your Job? Maybe It’s the Job’s Fault. 3. Resolution: Score a job interview at your dream company. Tip: Stop posting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

team owner, is now the time to sell while franchise value and fan support are at their peaks, or will the business of the NFL be viable for years to come? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-104... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

said. "I worked my butt off." And it paid off. Continental hired her as a permanent, full-time financial analyst. She was thrilled; doing a job she found rewarding at the company she had always dreamed of working for. She met a... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

12 Sep 2007
Op-Ed

Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure

economy, must be leery of rescuing Wild West investor/risk-takers. As this empire crumbles, the people at the base—the waitress in Detroit, the laborer in Sacramento, the daycare worker in Boston—will lose not just the dream and security... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

will have to be crafted around them." Another determinant of success in this market is the ability to sell—and deliver on—hope. "Providers are selling the promise of a child, the dream of a family, but at some point they have to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Tobin Project brought together a dream team of researchers, from various fields and universities, to develop a novel set of experiments on inequality and decision-making. Joining Moss and Tobin program manager Howard Rudnick are Norton... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

the educational aspects of computing. OLPC has made a difference already because it changed the landscape in terms of dreams and expectations. Observers can see what makes the goal of one laptop per child difficult to achieve. Says... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

is why sleep so often incubates insight—that reference librarian in your brain has just put two volumes together. It is also why many people are having unusually vivid dreams right now. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

without cannibalizing its own market share or diluting the sterling brand of the parent airline. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-060 The Cheese and the Oligarchs: The Politics, the Media, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

experience and allow them to dream about and complete bigger projects. Lal: There is the potential to use the Internet to make your store more valuable, like Home Depot does in letting you plan a project online and then coming into the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

features racial violence and the quest for justice in the South. I also recommend Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann, which provides insight into how American capitalism got into... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

to its—and Morocco’s—benefit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-049 Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details