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13 May 2013
Blog Post

Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise

two years at Credit Suisse, I made the decision to leave in order to attend HBS. There are so many things I’m looking forward to at HBS—listing everything would take much more... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

decades mixing and selling skin care formulas before she undertook to build a national market for her products. Howard Schultz did not grow up drinking specialty coffee, but as soon as he was introduced to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

way in one sector, you can move to the other rather easily. You’ve learned a style and a way of operating that is very useful in the other sector.” Whitehead concluded by saying, “The world cries out for... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

themselves to open source, however, mainstream companies are learning to incorporate users in a way that benefits everyone. Apple, for example, tightly controls the software... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Dec 2021
News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

they saw their failures as learning experiences that proved to be useful in the future. As the author and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh said: “It takes as much courage to have... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

She filed away what she learned and took a job working at IBM in downtown New York. “My colleagues were the sons and daughters of firemen, policemen, and this was the first white-collar job in their families,” recalls Burton. “The word... View Details

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

inroads in important ways in collaborative learning and R&D. When privatization and business applications start to enter the picture, which he predicted would happen by the year 2005, managers will have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

it’s important to use these different lenses to fully embrace all the learnings that came from your journey. What specific skills have you developed or mastered? Consider all... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

over the world. In talking with Chinese government officials, he said, he learned that China does acknowledge climate change. "But what they didn't want was to obey or follow any instructions coming... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

2012
Book

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those... View Details

Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Management; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Research; Strategy; Complexity; Value

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18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

system, while 20 percent felt "strongly negative." The feedback resulted in a call to arms, a report that detailed five imperatives to improve the situation. Among these imperatives: the need View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Blog

Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method

School from 1870 to 1895, had introduced case-based learning around 1890. According to the Harvard Law School website: "Langdell conceived of a way View Details

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

Plaid’s Head of Corporate Development on our research. By taking advantage of these academic opportunities, I was able to learn about Plaid’s products, their customers, growth vectors, and much more. In... View Details

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

employees make or how many units they produce. “The objective performance measures don’t take into consideration whether the machine broke down or whether someone is still learning the job,” Gallani explains. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

get replacement coverage since any new insurer would learn the reason for the drop.” Thus, it makes practical sense for drivers to lie to their personal insurers, saying they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

17 Sep 2020
Blog Post

HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

Bastian Purrer (MBA 2020), a native German, spent most of his career before HBS launching international offices for Groupon and Rocket Internet. After a few years in Europe and Asia, Bastian enrolled at HBS hoping to continue his... View Details

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

priorities as they emerge. Looking ahead, Yoonjin anticipates taking elective courses in her second year, like Public Entrepreneurship and Business at the Base of the Pyramid, to dive more deeply into public/private opportunities. “I’m... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

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