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Beyond Their Funds, How Can Your Investors Be Helpful?
An entrepreneur recently said to me “When it gets really hard, I feel like I’m doing it wrong.” She went on to say that sometimes she’s not sure how her investors could be helpful — even if it’s just validating what’s hard vs. advising on how to work through...
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- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
His research comes at a time when an increasing number of people report being worn out on the job, with 43 percent of middle managers reporting burnout in the US and 70 percent of C-suite workers considering quitting to search for jobs...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
closed (low-power) poses, and then prepared and delivered a speech to two evaluators as part of a mock job interview, a prototypical social evaluation. All speeches were videotaped and coded for overall performance, hireability, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2023 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk
By: Andy Wu and Goran Calic
Late afternoon on Friday, October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk was the center of attention at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. The night before, Musk officially took the company private and became Twitter’s majority shareholder, finally ending a months-long acquisition...
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Elon Musk;
Twitter;
Acquisition;
Revenue;
Advertising;
Social Media;
Business or Company Management;
Public Opinion;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing
Wu, Andy, and Goran Calic. "Twitter Turnaround and Elon Musk." Harvard Business School Case 723-418, February 2023. (Revised March 2023.)
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
a previous institution. Ultimately, that pain led her to accept failure as a necessary part of her career. In her lab, she constantly emphasizes failure, telling her students that 95 percent of experiments fail, and cheerfully announcing, “We are going to fail all...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
a better job of making apartments appealing than the online classified site, but first they had to siphon away its customers. To do that, Chesky and Gebbia created software to hack Craigslist to extract the contact info of property...
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Hire Talent
Hire Talent Hire Talent Work With Us to Meet Your Hiring Goals Discover HBS talent, engage and recruit current students and alumni, view employment statistics and gain recruiting insights and advice. Post Jobs and Access Resumes Promote...
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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
organizations to climb the value chain and access higher-margin businesses with powerful incumbents. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609024 PublicationsGender in Job...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
However, even though nurses rotate through administrative roles, every nurse’s primary job remains patient care. Typically, three to four nurses on a team care for one patient, allowing for consistency and closer patient relationships,...
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- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsFinding the Right Job for Your Product Harvard Business School Note 607-028 Asserts that the typical ways that companies have learned to segment their markets, by product...
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Martha Lagace
- February 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Teaching Note
Renegotiating NAFTA
By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
On January 16, 2020, the Senate passed a landmark trade deal that would replace the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Until the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed, considerable debate had surrounded it. The new agreement...
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When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task
By: Anna Dorfman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Simone Moran
Choosing a major field of study to secure a good job after graduation is a tacit coordination problem that requires considering others' choices. We examine how feeling skillful, either induced (Experiment 1) or measured (Experiment 2), affects coordination in this type...
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Dorfman, Anna, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and Simone Moran. "When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task." PLoS ONE 8, no. 6 (June 2013): 1–6.
- September–October 2013
- Article
Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization
By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael Tushman
Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography...
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Familiarity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Gender;
Information Technology Industry
Kleinbaum, Adam M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman. "Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1316–1336.
- 22 Jun 2017
- News
The Talent Pool Your Company Probably Overlooks
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business School professor emeritus...
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by Julia Hanna
- August 2005
- Case
Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns
By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock
Genius? That is not what they were calling Bill Belichick in Cleveland. Why? Four losing seasons in five years. Fans hurled trash and insults. The media resented him. Ownership abandoned him. Players quit on him. Very different from the three Super Bowls in five years...
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Business History;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Style;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
United States
Wells, John R., and Travis Haglock. "Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns." Harvard Business School Case 706-415, August 2005.
- 12 Apr 2021
- News
Savvy Self-Promotion
- Web
Courses - Entrepreneurship
under General Management) John Batter Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson Joseph Fuller Spring 2024...
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
States severely affected the flow of goods, manufacturing, and job growth in Europe and Asia. Stock markets plunged, resulting in the worst economic downturn in global markets since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Major debt crises...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
As an entrepreneur, how confident are you that you fully understand your customer’s pain points or their job to be done? Entrepreneurs I first meet tend to start selling me on their solution before explaining the problem they are trying...
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by Julia Austin