Filter Results
:
(593)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(593)
- News (57)
- Research (496)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (225)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(593)
- News (57)
- Research (496)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (225)
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
their organizations merely sell the products and services they have rather than develop new offerings based on evolving customer needs and desires. Interestingly, only 55 percent of survey respondents ranked customer focus as one of the most critical View Details
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Want from Your Products
effort to improve sales of its milk shakes. (In this example, both the company and the product have been disguised.) Its marketers first defined the market segment by product—milk shakes—and then segmented it further by profiling the demographic and View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
do again (for example, finance or maybe even management!). Similarly, consider behavioral characteristics that no longer serve you. Were you a micromanager who spent too much time in the weeds? Did you spend too much time on product and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Julia Austin
- 14 Aug 2006
- HBS Case
On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”
Angeles Lakers basketball team. Supporting material shows film clips of some of the more notorious Knight moments as well as Coach K's press conference after turning down the Lakers job. Students come away with a deep sense of each coach's View Details
- Web
Preparing to Teach - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
takes place on multiple levels. First-time case instructors typically devote time to learning about the core principles of participant-centered learning. They also reflect on the ways in which their academic and professional background, prior teaching experience,...
View Details
- Working Paper
An AI Method to Score Celebrity Visual Potential from Human Faces
By: Flora Feng, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kannan Srinivasan and Cait Lamberton
Celebrities have extraordinary abilities to attract and influence others. Predicting celebrity visual potential is important in the domains of business, politics, media, and entertainment. Can we use human faces to predict celebrity visual potential? If so, which...
View Details
Feng, Flora, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kannan Srinivasan, and Cait Lamberton. "An AI Method to Score Celebrity Visual Potential from Human Faces." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4071188, November 2023.
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision." Regarding communication: "Good communication does not mean that you have to...
View Details
Keywords:
Management
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Expectations (6) Performance Improvement (20) Performance Productivity (41) Performance (195) Personal Characteristics (74) Personal Development and Career (172) View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to firms' interactions with non-financial...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916414-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-007 The Hain Celestial Group Hain Celestial manufactured natural and organic food and personal care products to be sold to retailers of...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the overall objectives of the firm in relation to customers, investors, and regulators. Now people are chosen to step into these roles and the organization is set in motion. What will happen in real time? Once on the job, the bonding drive will lead every View Details
Keywords:
by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal claims—including tentpoles punctuating...
View Details
Keywords:
by Bill George
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
"I think we need to learn more about this type of person to deal with this phenomenon. We need to learn more about specifically how these folks bring something valuable into the organization and specifically how to minimize the...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
person is higher than me on the desirability scale. Maybe I’m more desirable than I thought I was. Confidence leads to better outcomes,” he says. Some love matches fizzled. When a targeting man was very desirable but a focal woman had low...
View Details
Keywords:
by Kara Baskin
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of workers’ characteristics and circumstances that lead them to engage in what we call "toxic"...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
between managers and team members that might be difficult to gauge any other way. Combing through data that included 10,673 managers and 2,316 firms from 2010 to 2019, the researchers examined the characteristics of managers who include...
View Details
Keywords:
by Pamela Reynolds
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's very cheap to get a second...
View Details