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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

productivity and safety. In a psychologically safe workplace, when mistakes are made and learned from, the company can move forward instead of repeating them in the future. Psychological safety is also closely aligned with a company’s... View Details

23 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning at a Robotics Start-Up

world and experience the fast-growing robotics industry first hand. I wanted to go out of my comfort zone and do something “different” than what I had done before. It is at times challenging to work at a very early stage View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

09 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive

surgery or drugs it is not going to be widely taken up. Americans are very overworked. People are terribly stressed. How do they find the time for a diet like that? Editor's note: Regina Herzlinger doesn't have a financial stake in any of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Health; Pharmaceutical

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HBS - The year in Review

recognized for their lasting contributions to the second-year experience. Charlotte received the award in her first year of teaching, and Tony, Sophus, Tom and Meg have received the Teaching Award multiple times Tony Mayo, Required... View Details

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

in 2013. Professor Thales Teixeira discusses TripAdvisor’s staggering success, how the company has forced an entire industry to change the way it considers (and purposefully influences) the online review process, and how consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

industry leaders? How competitive are existing, well-capitalized companies when they compete against user-manufacturers? Although there have been a number of studies on user innovation, little if any work has been done on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

December 2010 (Revised March 2013)
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Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest production cost of any edible oil, palm oil... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Natural Environment; Marketing Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Indonesia; Malaysia

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19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies on minority investments in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

this article, the author suggests that tech pioneers would do well to heed a lesson he’s gleaned from his research in the developing world: For long-term success, companies must invest in the surrounding ecosystem. The author presents... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

Peterson (A).” The case discusses the problems that a recent MBA graduate faces when he joins a new company and has a difficult time managing people. A lot of us are trained to be individual contributors... View Details

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

The topic of governance is hot. Shareholders, managers, and business advisors are demanding improved governance of (typically public) companies by strengthening their boards of directors and developing more responsive shareholder... View Details

November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

By: Elie Ofek

In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States

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06 Jun 2016
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Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

financed them—declared such brick-and-mortar businesses were dinosaurs on their way to extinction. The success of Bluemercury proved the critics wrong. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Description: What dilemma is [the protagonist] confronting at the time of the case? A company considers an acquisition that would expand its market share Action: As a director on [Company A’s] board, would... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto View Details

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

16 Apr 2024
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Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin (MBA 1999) Era

head of film at Netflix, which details the challenges and opportunities ahead for him at the streaming giant. Lin is a longtime producer (notably of The Lego Movie and Sherlock Holmes) and founder of Rideback, the production company he... View Details

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

heaps of potential players, but not enough time for transactions to be made, accepted, or rejected effectively. "Safety" refers to an environment in which all parties feel secure enough to make decisions based on their best... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

Data from 1,700 executives by Linda Hill and colleagues reveals the most important skills and traits leaders need now. 4. When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career The second half of your life could be better than the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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