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04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

GenZers’ need for “connection” be any less than that of preceding generations? Has the pandemic so affected their outlook and behavior that they in turn will affect the way work is performed and businesses are organized and led? Have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

relativity. Those interests led to degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and even some opportunities to work on projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. But his life plans took a sharp turn on a Tuscany... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

When I left, I was an extroverted marketer.” After graduation, he turned down a position with Salomon Brothers in order to launch his own venture, Applitek, developing a cable modem. The year was 1981, a full decade before most of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

banking partner. Time and again the top-tier banks turned them down, so the company ended up teaming with a second-tier bank, the South African Bank of Athens. “Banks find it an unprofitable proposition to serve people who make less than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

helps you turn an idea into a viable venture. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices... View Details

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

spirals, especially how to turn around a downward spiral. At what point, with what tactics, and how strongly, do you intervene when there's a downslide? I always try to push the students to consider how these questions and possible... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

excitement of modern industry.” 25 The following year, Aikins made the decision to turn all his energies to photographing industry in an effort to inspire public confidence in business. In 1941, U.S. Steel would hire Aikins and other... View Details

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

studies of cultures where certain talismans or totems could only be touched by men, who believed that the touch of a woman would make the object lose its power. Throughout history, men seem to have feared gender contamination much more than women. "It View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

feel they can contribute to overcoming the uncertainty, overcoming the crisis. Engaging employees in this way will also reduce that rumor mill, give confidence to them that they will then project in turn to the people who are relying on... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Spending time in reflection is vital. Most leaders need more time to reflect on the last meeting, never mind the last month or quarter. But the benefits of introspection can’t be overstated. Block out time on your calendar for quiet, honest thinking. Put away the... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

leaders to make an impact on societal challenges. 3. Catalyze action by turning research into practice. Our Team Debora L. Spar Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Business in Global... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

strong reputation for social and corporate responsibility. Dimon came to JPMorgan from Bank One, where, as chairman and CEO, he turned a $511 million loss in 2000 into record earnings of $3.5 billion by 2003, when he engineered its sale... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

well-researched, expert advice, she turned to other working parents, asking, What do you wish you had known? Those inputs helped Dowling guide colleagues at Blackstone, where she had taken a job as head of talent development. Helping... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

the bone marrow transplant. So I'm in a new country that's not my own. I don't have money and I have to raise 150,000 pounds from a standing start, otherwise my daughter would die. And that feeling of desperation, that feeling of, “Who do I View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

possibilities. For me, HBS was a turning point." After graduating, Brody went directly to Goldman and began an outstanding twenty-year career there. Over the years, he founded and headed Goldman's high-technology investment banking group,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Edward Fertik, Yale University

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

School. A number of issues, however, can block employees from benefitting from their more successful peers. For example, an employee might not recognize themselves as underperforming, so don’t seek help. Or, if they recognize their weaknesses, they might not know who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Francesca Gino

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

those communities can offer frank feedback on the organization's work. Ebrahim's research suggests that measuring results is valuable as a discipline for nonprofit managers, even if they don't find universal metrics for social impact. "It View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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