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- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
think in successful businesses there is both a sense of strategy and how you allocate resources to get the maximum impact.” His humility allowed... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
recover? Will my business survive? Equally important is the need to be clear about what we know, and what we don’t know. As in all crises, there are also a number View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
discounts, stores are subsidizing high-value customers” “The use of this lever of discounts has been so high in many aspects, it is causing e-commerce companies to become... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
case of hotels, professionals tend to not be as well-regarded anymore. Why? Because they have different values of what they consider important than [the average consumer does]. If I have a View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
that employer’s name on their curriculum vitae? “You have this great name on your CV, and suddenly it goes from being an asset to a liability,” says George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic View Details
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
are not talented and productive but see themselves solely as Yahoo! employees. In today's tight job market, some of the remote workers will comply with Mayer's new policy, but... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
The August 2016 cover of Consumer Reports featured a striking quote by a 32-year-old nurse with $152,000 in student loans: “I kind of ruined my... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
Why is this so?" What do you think? Original Article Recent estimates suggest that U.S. business organizations have attained the greatest disparity between the highest and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
It's the most wonderful time of the year—or that's how the song goes. But this year's decline in retail sales has... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
The solution seems obvious. Forgiving medical debt should ease both financial and emotional burdens for the two in five people in View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor... View Details
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
linear, making you linger and pause and consider, rather than an easy search-and-grab. If you think about the origins of Starbucks, it was a process filled with friction: The... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
long-term oriented entrepreneur (and involving an admittedly extreme problem of succession), is more typical than atypical around the world. Even some of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne