Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

potential revolutionary shifts in customer behavior. Look for new business models and technologies that can radically transform product, market, and industry economics and power. Benchmark inside and outside View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

22 Mar 2021
Blog Post

3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy

to engage professionally into retirement with flexible freelance and contract work. “Many more companies are using freelancers and contractors to lower overhead costs,” Murphy said. “There is an opportunity to reach out to View Details

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

like a tragic situation that potentially could be solved with a bit more insight into how people actually make decisions, the structure of their constraints, and what really affects their behavior." Thus launched an academic career in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2010
News

How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

hoping to test out a special area of interest or potential career path. Others looked abroad, pursuing their interests in solving business and social problems in the developing world. Canadians Alyza Keshavjee and Ameel Somani spent their... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Mar 2014
Blog Post

Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies

who recruit at Harvard Business School, we are often asked how to align a social media and recruiting strategy. Here are 7 guidelines we’ve compiled to help organizations successfully leverage social media within their hiring strategy. Know View Details

28 Feb 2020
News

The Capital That Ate Wellness Is Going to Eat Your Mushrooms

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new products or holiday packages that match their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

Norton borrows another concept from economics—diminishing returns. “If you make $30,000 and you get $10,000, that’s huge—but if you make a million dollars and get $10,000, it’s not going to mean that much,” he says. In the same way, “If you spend 12 straight hours with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 May 2015
News

Are You Solving The Right Business Problem? Here Are 5 Ways To Get To Your Question Zero

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

they're going to want to hire the best horse for the race.” What should aspiring executives do? For executives looking to reach the top spot, a private equity move can be lucrative—and career-boosting. Researchers were able to estimate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

worries, their personal finances may be in shambles. Most entrepreneurs cut their own salaries as their venture goes into decline, and many have invested their life savings in the startup—along with funds from friends and family. If entrepreneurs View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

needed to reach a milestone – a valuation of $1B. Based on this experience, Dzodan encourages other alumni and entrepreneurs to spend the time necessary to bring on interns, even when there are dozens of other tasks on View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

expect when reaching out to others for help? A job is bound to fail if the people who control resources refuse to help. “In some organizations, it’s every man or woman for themselves,” Simons says. “You eat what you kill, and no one is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

particular field your venture intends to address, you may need a cofounder with domain specific expertise. Having domain expertise will not only inform the product strategy, but will also help the venture gain credibility in the market... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

paths are you and your classmates pursuing? JD/MBAs pursue a variety of career paths after graduation in both law and business. The program tends to attract a diverse set of people, so it is not uncommon for graduates to pursue... View Details

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are: Amy Cuddy at TEDGlobal 2012

Within two months of being posted, Amy Cuddy's viral TEDTalk reached 2 million views and became one of the 50 most-viewed TEDTalks of all time. It was also the 8th most-saved video of 2012, according to Pocket (from GetPocket.com,... View Details

July 2015
Article

BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment

By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger

As concerns about pollution and climate change have become more central in public discourse, shopping with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Grocery Shopping; Reusable Bags; Licensing; Priming; Goals; Hedonic; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry

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08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

and hardiness identify as crucial: Control: Which facets of the situation can you potentially influence? Think about how a person you emulate and admire would act. Then, work with your team to identify all... View Details