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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
good to ask what lessons they learned in their last startup and how they’re bringing those lessons into their new venture. “I joined Drift in part because I wanted to learn from the experience of the co-founders. They’ve seen it before so...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
important issues. Values-centered Leadership Leading is high stress work. There is no way to avoid the constant challenges of being responsible for people, organizations, outcomes, and uncertainties in the environment. Leaders who move up have greater freedom to...
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by Bill George
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
Among them are low setup cost, allowing companies to start advertising for as little as $10 a day; precise targeting—to specific demographics, or based on life events such as birthdays or similarity to current customers; short creative...
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- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
authentic, research and leadership development programs should focus on how leaders develop their authenticity. Being authentic as a leader is hard work and takes years of experience in leadership roles. No one can be authentic without...
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by Bill George
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what...
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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,...
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- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
events—and what procedures and practices will aid in their ability to do so? Obviously, extreme events—events that are in scope or scale or type beyond the range of our ordinary experience and expectations—by definition will occur only...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to work View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
2000s, such as Eve Online and World of Warcraft. Linden Lab’s Second Life game, with its open-world multiuser virtual environment, has also played a key role in demonstrating the potential of metaverse technology. “Metaverse-related hype...
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- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
meant a good deal to them, based on earlier experiences in their lives. Some asked themselves what kind of legacy, however modest, they wanted to leave behind before deciding what to do. Reflection promotes growth Reflection, Badaracco...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially controversial findings: Compared...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
passion," he says. When employees notice that these two understandings of passion diverge, they experience uncertainty in determining what to do about it. On the one hand, employees may feel a deep appreciation for being in an...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
publicity and so seem more numerous than they are, that hire CEOs directly from the outside, with no previous experience with the firm. These CEOs are driven by a need to excel in a competitive environment (they want to win), and they...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Robert S. Kaplan, Katelyn Brinegar, Nicole Bassoff, H. Benjamin Harvey, James A. Brink, and Anand Prabhakar Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50229 Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?
culture, won’t even scratch the surface of the performance problem.” As Jerry put it, “My experience with fear based management was that employees were reluctant to innovate because there was a risk that if anything went awry they would...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
and two laboratory experiments in food service settings suggest that transparency that 1) allows customers to observe operational processes (process transparency) and 2) allows employees to observe customers (customer transparency) not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
Partners in Short & Long Term Relationships. “The conviction to have a cofounder is often based solely on complementary skills and experience versus the softer, and often more important, relationship criteria.” In the podcast, Dr....
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by Julia Austin
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
What makes a successful entrepreneurial leader? Is it the technical brilliance of Bill Gates? The obsessive focus on user experience of Steve Jobs? The vision, passion, and strong execution of Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo? Or maybe...
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by HBS Working Knowledge
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
record labels are increasingly experimenting with DRM-less music sales, p2p is superior in this respect. In contrast, metadata (data about data—the indexing data contained in media files such as artist or album name) is superior on...
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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than View Details