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18 Aug 2011
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Best Leadership Books of All Time

03 Jun 2015
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Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

Summing Up When and Where Will Holacracy Work Best? Holacracy, or self-management, is an interesting concept and not entirely new. It can work, but only under the right conditions. And its applications will be limited. That's what one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street

my time with the companies I worked for,” says Timken, who envisions returning to business (perhaps in Europe, perhaps with a start-up) when he retires from the El Monte force in ten years. “But when I... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

16 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

25 Oct 2018
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How successful CEOs manage their time

23 Jan 2020
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Why flexible working is a nasty lie

02 Jun 2015
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Long Days and Flexible Time Stall Women’s Careers

11 Mar 2020
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Managing Through Crisis: How To Work Remotely

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How to Be Happy at Work

Are you truly happy at work? Or, like most people, do you have some good days but most of the time work is stressful, all-consuming, and not as fulfilling as you'd like? Annie McKee will share that outdated myths and mindsets are a big part of the reason so many of us... View Details

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Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI

By: Eleanor W. Dillon, Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica and Christopher T. Stanton

We present evidence on how generative AI changes the work patterns of knowledge workers using data from a 6-month-long, cross-industry, randomized field experiment. Half of the 7,137 workers in the study received access to a generative AI tool integrated into the... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Behavior; Time Management

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04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

What were the management trends in 2009? Fascination with social networking and rethinking common wisdom about goal setting. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Integrity: Without It Nothing Works

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

extended vacations, a sabbatical, leaves of absence, or a shorter work week. – Ask everyone to share the pain by taking a pay cut. Senior management should take a larger one. Hewlett Packard used this approach several View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2015
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The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

managing a Beijing sock factory, came packaged with a CD-ROM of short video clips. The case laid the foundation for a new type of storytelling within the confines of the tested HBS case method, but the fledgling online video technology... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

worked closely with Kremer to ensure that his needs on campus were met. And HBS students—from Kremer’s class until today—have actively raised money for Prize4Life, while many alumni donors continue to support the cause, including many... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2021
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Time and the Value of Data

By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details

Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value

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27 Mar 2012
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One School at a Time

back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

11 Oct 2021
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Tapping into Our Inner Captain in Times of Crisis

01 Jun 2004
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Redefining Work Life

taking a break bucks the conventional wisdom to kiss one’s career goodbye after time off. As for the idea that one can’t work as hard after a break, former Tropicana CEO Ellen Marram (MBA ’70) told Business... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are exploring the intersection of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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