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- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
British makeup guru Katie Jane Hughes posts close-up photos of her face on Instagram almost daily for her 336,000 followers: shimmery gold eyelids; glossy pink lips that complement her auburn hair; eyebrows tinted with tiny brushstrokes...
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- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
push-the-limit culture, which some employees viewed as toxic and sexist. And WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann, whose self-aggrandizing behavior belied the company’s major troubles, proved to be an immature executive, he says. “Authenticity is the View Details
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by Lane Lambert
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard? Do work rules sabotage a company?...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
“Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership” —Harvard Business Review, January 2015 In the last 10 years, authenticity has become the gold standard of leadership. This is a sea change from 2003...
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by Bill George
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
results for apprentices, while beating the benchmark for productivity reported by employers by the system often cited as the gold standard, Switzerland,” Fuller says. “The data supports that CareerWise is working for the apprentices and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
Harvard Business School. [Image: RichLegg] Related Reading Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You? How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs What's your best tip for...
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by Julia Austin
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
financial incentives causes people to work harder," he says. "But my research suggests that in deciding how hard we work and how well we think we're performing, social comparisons matter just as much." The $30,000 Gold Star The power of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
as the gold standard, he says. After all, humans often drive unsafely: They may drive a little over the speed limit, fail to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, or speed through a crosswalk instead of stopping when a pedestrian is...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
that companies can save 20-30 percent on costs by improving processes. In fact, we heard from two companies who are considered gold standards in operational efficiency in their industries, and in examining and honing their processes, they...
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- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation committee that meets perhaps 10 times a year, and what is the likelihood they'll get it right? We say we should pay for performance, but how? What do you think? Original Article Pay for performance sounds right. It aligns managers and investors. It has...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
for over thirty years. He offered his perspectives on the Turin Games in a recent conversation with HBS Working Knowledge. James Aisner: The U.S. Olympic team came away from Turin with mixed results—from the disappointments of the Alpine skiers to the View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
Internet security industry. Let's apply this thinking to the recently reinitiated global conversation about climate change. If one subscribes to precepts of entrepreneurial management, there should be a pot of gold at the end of a climate...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
about by abnormal genes, such as Alzheimer's disease or cancer. Clearly, genomics could be a gold mine for drug makers. Today, drug development is an expensive and long process—it can take up to ten years and $600 million to develop a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan By Francesca Gino On a sunny day a few years ago, my husband, Greg, and I were wandering the streets of the Gold Souk in the old part of Dubai. Both my sister,...
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate against women. Employing women...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
eager to finally read Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. Brown chronicles how nine boys from working-class families won improbable View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
less than private insurers for the same services. Using 2018 data (the most recent year for which all relevant data is available), we found that a pay-as-you-go Public Option could lower the price for the 3.4 million people who now buy unsubsidized Bronze, Silver, and...
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