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- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
humblebraggers. The takeaway: Seriously, stop humblebragging! "Not only do we like humblebraggers less that braggers, but we're less likely to be generous to them," Gino says. Next Steps And Lessons Learned... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
Do gender-diverse companies make more money than businesses run primarily by men? If research says they perform better, that could bolster the argument that women should have more access to top positions in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
has been a tremendous shift to the better over the past 15 years” By the time he retired in 2002, the board-serving landscape had changed considerably. These days, serving on a few boards can comprise almost a full-time job. While... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
change,” he says. “Firms typically don’t want to do that because once you change it, it’s very difficult to change it back. Also, experimenting with a select group of employees is deemed as unfair.” Past performance doesn’t guarantee... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
by Willis Towers Watson found that 40 percent of employees desire family-related assistance, with preference for expanded family leave, bereavement leave or assistance, and additional maternity leave. Companies can attract and retain... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
managers can succeed for reasons not of their own making—and we often learn far more from our failures than our successes. Failure and bouncing back from failure can be critical courses in the school of experience. As long as they are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
business options available. And the biggest component suppliers benefited the most by expanding their opportunities to do business with others, shows the study, coauthored by... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
long-tail and superstar effects take place—but that each comes with a twist," Elberse says. "Consumers can find videos online that they can't find anywhere else. And yes, there is a shift in sales to the tail—but there is also an increasing number of titles... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
with Liang and Luc Renneboog of Tilburg University, and Sunny Li Sun of the University of Missouri—Kansas City to study whether the same held true in business. Would a company's use of language, particularly by the CEO and other top... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
if not the letter, of the expense management rules. Do you confront the person? Tell a partner? Or just ignore the transgression? The verdict: The question of how you account for time and expenses is crucial in consulting, Fubini says,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Master the One-on-One Meeting
how you lead. Your time invested in doing them right will pay off not only with each individual, but with how your organization functions as a team. Have other tips on running successful 1:1s or good lessons View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 18 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation
Keywords: by Luc Wathieu & Allan Friedman
- 19 Sep 2023
- HBS Case
How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?
whether we should adopt AI—but rather, when and how to do so,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Wu’s recent case study and background note, AI Wars... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people, annually, in their sales function than... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
isn't about creating large hierarchical organizations with huge factories—it's about learning to combine and recombine dozens of "modules" both internally and externally to achieve goals. "What leaders are View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
different visitors in order to compare their performance. Because BuiltWith data shows when each company installed the software, the researchers could study firm performance before and after testing began using data on weekly website page views from the company... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
Bankruptcy filings in the United States were expected to soar during this year’s economic recession, induced by COVID-19. Instead, they dropped 27 percent year-over-year through August, driven by an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
we measure better versus worse? Even more simply, How do we keep score? "At the economy wide or social level," he continues, "the issue is the following: If we could dictate the criterion or objective function to be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen