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- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
Fargo was asking its sales force to sell 8 products (‘Going for gr-eight’) to customers that needed fewer products.” This was coupled, as Thomas Dean put it, “with high, high pressure on line employees to perform or be fired.” Hamad... View Details
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
reported that digital transformation takes significant financial investment and time. Of those who reported making significant progress on their journey, 60 percent had been at it for at least five years. In calculating the resources,... View Details
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We've documented US participation in global value chains over four decades, with particular focus on the last five... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
portfolios over the past 25 years. The data allow us to match asset positions with their corresponding foreign exchange forward positions. We present five findings: 1) We confirm the oft-conjectured hypothesis that fixed income investors... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Joy Chen
As a very young child, Joy Chen lived with her parents in the small corner of a chemistry lab building where the roof often collapsed when it rained. Determined to do better, she forced her way into the provincial office of education and... View Details
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
Weather the Storms Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) on what it will really take to adapt to the realities of climate change My Worst Job Alumni share life-altering lessons from the labor force The Making of a Streaming Sensation... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
adopting expansive body postures increases psychological power, we hypothesized that working on larger devices, which forces people to physically expand, causes users to behave more assertively. Participants were randomly assigned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
down accounts, which often happens if a customer fails to repay overdraft fees and other outstanding balances for two months. That black mark can prevent a consumer from opening a bank account elsewhere for up to five years, the authors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
According to poll findings released by Pew Research Center in November, among nearly 12,000 US adults, around seven in 10 say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. Only about a third say it’s extremely or... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
reopen a Lawson store in Soma. Kato had seen devastation as well. The tsunami had claimed two of her four Lawson stores and had destroyed her house, forcing her to a refugee shelter. Her mother-in-law and pet cat were still missing. But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
HBR Classics - Alumni
Emotional Intelligence of Groups , Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff Virtuoso Teams , Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton When Teams Cant Decide , Bob Frisch Assessing the Competitive Landscape Assessing the Competitive Landscape The View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS Portrait Project has captured a moment in time for graduating MBAs. We asked... View Details
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
been forced to accept uncertainty during the pandemic, Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, coauthors of the 2019 book The Wise Company, recently developed “six practices to make a better future” to help leaders focus on the most important... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term actions; clear communication... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
William R., and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
individuals, and a purely peer-based performance review and stack ranking. As customer demand and market forces draw Valve into hardware in 2013, Valve questions whether their organizational model will need to change as it expands from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne