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- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA
and it is noisy. The noise comes from the aggregated voices of hundreds of HBS MBA students. They have gathered in their discussion groups to have some breakfast while they review cases they have had to read for the day’s classes and... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
professionals from more than 30 PSFs have yielded four principles for firms to heed as they rediscover this lost art. First, mentoring is personal. Rather than relying on standardized programs, mentors must... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
online. An Alignable survey found that 25 percent of respondents were turning to social media to reach customers while 18 percent were engaging them through email. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/jF8KxCrlVaEnmbl0ELf4][/div] The key is... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
strikes a lot of people as the wrong answer, myself included, but what's interesting is how different people reach that conclusion. Some people say that the father's attitude is shortsighted, for instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
safety and efficiency, fixing operational failures can yield benefits for both. Thus, prioritizing improvement of work systems in general, rather than focusing more narrowly on specific clinical conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an environmental target or committed to View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and extending beyond graduation. In this feature, we... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
Ah, Nairobi! I love my home city...every time I return home, I am inspired by how much has changed, and motivated by how much opportunity there still remains for change. My family has been involved in public service since Kenya gained... View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
"ideas started popping up," he recalls. "The eye tracker measures attention, and due to its scarcity, attention has become more and more important to understand." No one feels that need more urgently, however, than businesses that pay increasing... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, strategy firms initiated a growth-driven hiring spree. However, as economies slowed, these firms faced a significant imbalance between their staffing “supply” and the declining demand for their... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
bit of time. Content Out Of Control Filling in for Bertelsmann CEO Middlehof, the company's Chief Creative Officer, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz offered his own view of how the Internet has changed the media business. "Four hundred years ago,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers
It was the summer of 2017, and after working at Mars in R&D for eight years, I started to think about the next step for my career. I enjoyed my role as a product innovation manager in the Consumer... View Details
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3)... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
The Latino Community at HBS
doesn't know it. A loved one that wants the best for you, a close friend that knows you, and a coworker or professional mentor that has guided you through your career. When applying to business school all of these people are the best... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
defects to their children, single parents, fertile adopters, and "gender selectors" who want a baby boy (or girl) at any cost. "We're not talking about demand for potato chips," said Spar. "This is the kind of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
than others, or with certain types of products more than others? A: Definitely. For user innovation to be a force, the cost of creating a new design must be within the reach of a single user, whose reward is... View Details