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- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of how it feels to work in a platinum mine, where the View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
cherries grown by KZ Noir, the Kaizen affiliate that acquired the Rwandan washing stations. Now instead of being shipped to Europe, East Asia, or North America, some of those bags are traveling a shorter distance to Nigeria. Dozie’s Café... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
advantage of time alumni have already scheduled to be on campus. The committee is not limiting its sights to campus-based programs; it will be researching distance learning opportunities and how to augment... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as... View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Business School Case 308-072 As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
a natural member of this group. Tony's story strongly suggests that the most fundamental inner resource of leaders is a peculiar, negative skill. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large, multinational corporations, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled in your book? First of all, I... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55409 Harvard Business School Case 119-023 Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
restrictions—may need to refine their outreach to a pandemic-weary public, especially when it comes to high-risk activities, such as indoor dining. As vaccine hopes and holiday loneliness make distancing harder, consumers will need more... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
between keeping one's distance and staying involved. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-114.pdf Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers agreed that what they View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously.” Examine the geographical distribution of their teams. Companies that distribute workers north and south to minimize time differences might maintain more synchronous communication, even if there are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
learn to take those, so I can dance all night with you.” You know, like romantic lyrics. Like all of it. All of it. So these are some of the lyrics that are coming out in the new body of work. And I’m happy to have both the emotional... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
plastic seemed like a godsend: perhaps Gotham Greens could create packaging from plastic that degraded naturally and replenished the soil. As team members learned more about this option, however, they concluded that compostable plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman