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- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down. Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/RobertCrum View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
of whether managers should aim to deliberately increase the diversity of their evaluator pools,” the researchers write. Experts prefer feasible robot designs To test how open experts are to unique ideas, the researchers worked with NASA... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
encourage men to study women’s health, helping them understand and empathize with the experience of women. “That may then help them see opportunities to invent or become more comfortable supporting these sorts of ideas,” he says. [Image: iStockphoto/Vladimir Borovic]... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Iansiti and MacCormack discuss their findings.Silverthorne: Although many large companies have been swamped by so-called disruptive technologies, Microsoft has remained at the top of its game for more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
career-related outcomes. “There are lots of open questions,” says Chang. “We're talking about using this tactic in a one-off interaction asking for help, but we don't know what's going to happen if it’s a prolonged interaction.” Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
were not strong enough to prevent the growth of private labels in Europe, but they were sufficient to maintain Unilever's strong position in higher margin products. It was able to leverage knowledge of brands and products between... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
the hiring market continues to prove challenging, and employers across the spectrum commit to diverse hiring practices, apprenticeships could create a pipeline for homegrown talent. “It raises a lot of concerns among some teachers and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration. Increasing Geographic View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
workers to feel engaged and highly motivated, and they want those workers to muster creativity and diverse perspectives to solve problems. If workers have latitude to express themselves, they’ll feel more inspired and do better work—not... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
large part to their limited conceptions of gender. The fourth frame offers a conceptual leap from thinking about gender as an individual characteristic to thinking about it as a central organizing feature of social life, influencing not only men and women, but also the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
hiring net, Choudhury points out. “There was a recent report that the diversity of [Twitter’s] workforce has gone up because of work-from-anywhere. If a company allows working from anywhere, then you can hire from anywhere,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and 10 experts. Ideally, those experts should have some... View Details
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
immigration is high.” You Might Also Like: How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
Side to Fintech White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/xijian View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
play in inequality as well.” You Might Also Like: The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less? Feedback or... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
services, others deliver complete solutions to their customer, and still others innovate with high-technology products. About the only common element all these diverse successful strategy implementers have in common is exceptional and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
comments below. Summing up last month’s column Last month, I asked what we could do to sustain organization diversity and whether we err in first hiring a more diverse workforce, perhaps to meet a goal,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
of Nations, is that free markets require certain conditions in order to function—among them, well-defined property rights, enforceable contracts, non-collusion between parties, and complete knowledge that puts everyone on a level playing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding