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01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

curves at sixty miles an hour!” Any entrepreneur can tell you how well the same description suits the wild ride of a start-up, and the e-mail coming through on Gisholt’s Trio promised a perilous turn of its own. Back at company... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

rich culture and heritage, technology, and health care—what does that look like? It looks like Pine Mountain Settlement School,” he says. Marietta wastes no opportunity to interweave the seemingly disparate aspects of the social... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

And on the positive side, firms that do well on the ESG spectrum—environmental, social, and governance spectrum—and run their businesses with purpose, show a massive benefit in attracting and retaining talent—which is by the way, a huge... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

was tempered by lingering economic fears: one poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans expected that within a decade, another depression would devastate the country. With the health of the peacetime economy now the nation's top... View Details

21 Mar 2025
News

What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details

Keywords: Finance

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

distracted, overburdened workers on track and maintains nimbleness during a time of rapid change. Frequent check-ins are useful for everything from employee mental wellness to market research. "Good managers improve their team members’... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

test,” which would reveal the longer-term health of the country’s largest banks. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-013 Fishbowl Fishbowl is a social media app that allows... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

to State capacity. Survey respondents primed with negative views about business leaders want fewer meetings as well as higher taxes for the top 1% and more regulation. We also study how these effects change when subjects are... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most likely to donate from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

her to help them get inside the minds of undecided voters in swing states. So Hessan joined the campaign. She kicked off a voter research project that is now extended well beyond the 2016 election. Her approach is qualitative. She's in... View Details

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

model using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and... View Details