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- December 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and...
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Management Style;
Product Development;
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- 09 Nov 2023
- HBS Case
What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?
text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the US. You can also call 800-273-8255. You Might Also Like: Cold Call: Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression? Build the Life You Want:...
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- August 15, 2014
- Article
Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders...
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Family Ownership;
Personal Characteristics;
Family and Family Relationships;
Management Practices and Processes
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 15, 2014).
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
career” allows you to change paths every now and then while applying the skills you have to a next step. Big idea 2: Beware work addiction Many successful people lean in to extra time at the office to mask emotional pain, the authors...
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by Avery Forman
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
better leaders, and the practical steps to kicking an addiction to success. Dan Morrell: There’s been increasing academic interest in the topic of happiness in recent years. We’ve seen it at HBS with the work of Ashley Whillans, Leslie...
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by Dan Morrell
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
family but not everyone can accomplish great things.” Often, when decline kicks in, people like her are too addicted to success to make a change. Finding a new calling For Brooks, the lightbulb went off when his 11-year-old son could see...
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by Avery Forman
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
In 1995, Purdue Pharma began selling a powerful and addictive opioid drug called OxyContin. The company was aware that the drug, which was marketed to doctors as a safe way to manage chronic pain, was a potent narcotic that could quickly...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
seem to make more informed, calculated purchase decisions. A patchwork of regulation Loot boxes—and whether they may simply constitute an addictive form of gambling for some players—are now being debated by regulators across the world....
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- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
intersperses longer-form algorithmic picks with its new YouTube Shorts. TikTok presents only short-form video, one at a time. The difference may seem slight, but it is not. YouTube is a general-purpose video tool, while TikTok optimizes for View Details
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by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
sector. Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes It's possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. The key? Don't try to be good at everything. Research Papers Mitigating the Negative Effects of...
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- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success. “At the end of the day what I'm suggesting is that vulnerability in context is the most powerful thing you can have.” DeLong believes the tendency to be a high-need-for-achievement type is embedded in the...
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by Kim Girard
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for customers? Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution? Millions of people have been harmed by cigarettes, defective merchandise, pollution, addiction and other business by-products. now,...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
fast? Are business schools right in buying into a method of scoring the game that threatens to reduce their diversity of intellectual and social capital? All for the sake of a best list ranking? Are these really the right signposts on the road to a success that...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
things we take for granted in the West” Lack of jobs is a likely cause of rising addiction rates, with their myriad attendant pathologies and costs. Whereas Afghanistan once just grew poppies, its inhabitants are now increasingly View Details
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by Tarun Khanna
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction model. To reliably measure...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
Germany, that would be encouraging.” About the Author Danielle Kost is the senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: TomFreeze] Related Reading: What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs....
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- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
customer experience.” Related Reading: What Customers Want from Your Products How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers? Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
studied pigeons and found that once discovering randomly which button when pressed yielded a corn pellet, pigeons would repeat the act, a form of repetition compulsion. Unfortunately, leaders often become addicted to the compulsion to...
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by Martha Lagace