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  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

Survival usually required some degree of “restructuring the organization.” A real estate CEO provided an example: “We had the option to shut down our hotel business but decided View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

should ever walk into an office and have the door closed or feel she has to show up alone to a hotel room?” Companies should also provide employees with extensive training... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Then, students view alternative ways of making each call. The materials are intended to build skills and awareness relevant to personal selling and, in particular, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

masculine workplaces, making their platforms an ideal site for investigating alternative processes of masculine identity-construction at work. Q: Tell us about your experience on the oil platforms. What was it like View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

case study of a project in a Scandinavian life insurance company where the value network, an alternate value configuration analysis tool to the established value chain, was used View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

different in terms of the safety of gas cans sold at Walmart. Consider the alternative counterfactual, namely, that Walmart did not exist during this time. Would Blitz have created a safer gas can to sell... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

pollution, and growing inequality. The case concludes with the decision to abandon GDP growth as a measure of success and opens questions about what this means for Shanghai and China. Moreover, the case raises the question of what View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Apr 2015
  • Blog Post

Subverting Career Trajectories

alternatives out there for us—otherwise we wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here in the first place. The toughest part of HBS for me has been reminding myself that although the MBA feels like a detour... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

implementation that we forget why we are here in the first place . 'Why' is just as important as the 'How'; they are not mutually exclusive." As Nari Kannan put it, "To survive and thrive, I think companies need to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for bidders View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Ellsworth M. Statler

    room. Statler’s genius in providing luxury-like amenities to middle and working class people helped his hotel chain become popular with every day Americans. View Details
    Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
    • 19 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 19, 2016

    operating in environments with weak state institutions; to examine the challenges of implementing voluntary frameworks, such as the GPs or VPs, and their potential as alternatives View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

    Regina Herzlinger is not afraid to call them as she sees them. And what she sees looking at the American health care industry is a bunch of killers. Not only are hospitals, insurers, employers, Congress, and academics killing health care,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
    • 10 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 10

    recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 18 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    of reviews written by consumers. Consumers were becoming increasingly motivated to read and write reviews on TripAdvisor, largely as a means of informing other consumers about their personal experiences, but also View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Feb 2017
    • Blog Post

    Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program

    designed to bring MBA graduates into hotel management. The 18- to 24-month on-property immersion includes rotations in operations, sales, marketing, revenue management, View Details
    • 17 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 17

      Working PapersUser, and Open Collaborative Innovation: Ascendent Economic Models Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Laurence A. Tisch

      the brothers next took to expanding Loew’s into the hotel business, buying hotels in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By 1968, the brothers had built Loews into the third... View Details
      Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
      • 22 Apr 2022
      • Blog Post

      Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

      growing role in society. We were lucky to be treated to a group of highly accomplished speakers within the industry from a huge array of functions that explored the growing space from all angles. High level... View Details
      • 24 Dec 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: December 24

        Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel