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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
harmed by our own worst instincts." Dan Wallace proposed: "I like 'nudge' solutions, and one approach here might be to provide a 100 percent mortgage interest deduction for people who put 20... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
Working While Distancing
Are you suddenly working from home? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of View Details
- October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko
In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details
Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States
Chu, Michael, Brian Trelstad, and John Masko. "Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance." Harvard Business School Case 320-008, October 2019. (Revised August 2022.)
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
Their Organizations, by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, explores how companies’ outreach strategies evolved from top-down, command-centric communiques to something more informal, immediate, and personal—from a C-suite monologue to a... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
world characterized by increasing complexity reconsidering profit as being the sole and superior criterion for business success, is the only rational approach to take." On the other hand, Dan Wallace... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
per unit of energy consumed.” Dan Wallace asked whether or not we have “the wrong expectations.” As an example, he cited the sharing economy, where we achieve “better asset utilization and customer experience, but not necessarily... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
leadership? Those arguing that the two can coexist cite situations, generally involving adversity, in which the "greater good" is served by masking a leader's feelings. Frances Pratt argued that " we must be careful (and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
decision. There's a paralysis that can come with thinking too much." Norton explores this idea in From Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making, an article he co-wrote with Duke University's Dan Ariely... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
aid the process by framing their activities in ways that established their worth. In a separate project, Dan Wadhwani and I are working on developing a generalizable framework for understanding how value is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
for savvy dealmakers. The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (HBS MBA '90) remembers it well. "When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When I left, it was in a virtual... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of candor, humility, and trust in leadership. As Dan Wallace put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
course-development activities at HBS. Report: Sean Silverthorne: What were some of the group's conclusions about entrepreneurship in China, at least in the areas you saw? Dan Isenberg: Yes, it is important to take into account the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)
By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Kyle Todd Doherty and Maarten W. Bos
The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Attitudes; Entrepreneurship; Energy Conservation; Power and Influence; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; United States
Cuddy, Amy J.C., Kyle Todd Doherty, and Maarten W. Bos. "OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)." Harvard Business School Case 911-016, September 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
research and practice that can guide and improve the selection process and its outcomes. Their message was: "We know how to do it. And here's how." As Al Shealy commented, "The research isn't being used." Dan Erwin... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive? book excerpt The Trends Shaping Retail's Future From Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? By Rajiv... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
our way to Shad, we struck up a conversation about recruiting as most RCs do around that time of year. Dan knew that I was trans because I had done a MyTake earlier in the semester on National Coming Out Day, organized View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
Point: Which Stores Will Survive? book excerpt Will The Internet Push Grocery Retailers Over The Edge? From Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? By Rajiv Lal, Jose Alvarez and Dan... View Details
- 07 Sep 2012
- News
Something for the weekend
- July 2019 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Peabody Essex Museum: What Next?
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jeffrey F. Rayport
The case describes the 25-year transformation of Peabody Essex Museum, which was created in 1993 by the merger of two sub-scale predecessor cultural institutions, operating since 1799, in Salem, Massachusetts. Dan Monroe, its founding CEO, began a process of building... View Details
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Peabody Essex Museum: What Next?" Harvard Business School Case 520-009, July 2019. (Revised August 2020.)