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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
important for [managers] to ask the question, 'Do you work best autonomously, or do you work best cooperatively in a team?' " Putting workers in the right environment, Lakhani says, may be a crucial way View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
We’re told that the secret to success is hard work. But the truth is, hard work alone doesn’t always pay off. After all, career advancement isn’t always neatly tied to your...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
The timing is an unfortunate coincidence. Far from a response to any poll, the decision to include GMAT scores as one piece of an applicant's portfolio is based on systematic analysis of data gathered over...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
include an "insurance policy" that pays one party a sum tied to the future realized value of the firm. This sort of arrangement sometimes appears in mergers in the form of "earn-out...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
employees depends on its willingness to listen to them and act on what is learned. “Allowing employees to safely speak truth View Details
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by Michael Beer
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
matter of dumping his work on others. “Some people actually view this as a good opportunity, not a burden,” he says. “So how do we get this away from a 50-year-old and onto the desk of a 27-year-old who will pay more attention and also...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
wouldn’t be able to afford an MBA How would I pay for the MBA? What would I do about fees and living expenses? I learned more about financial aid at HBS and realized it’s hard View Details
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
From software that once came in a box to phone apps that do simple tasks, more products and services are moving to a subscription model—and consumers are feeling it. The average US consumer last year spent...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors use checklists or think of...
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Should tall people pay higher taxes than the rest of us? It is an idea that is bound to raise eyebrows, if not a smile. Yet the underlying notion is not entirely silly, grounded as it is in serious questions...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
it's a verbal tick. It's no big deal really." Then Sheryl said to me, "I know this great speech coach, and I'm sure Google would pay for it. Would you like an introduction?" Once again, I made this brush-off...
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- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
caps, for instance—"that we never see. Many bottlers are in a supply chain of their own." Action Steps Despite these challenges, there are many ways that companies can take steps to battle HIV and AIDS, summarized Ruggie: View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
might also want to check out this crazy new venture on the fifth floor of the Time & Life Building. It was something called “Home Box Office” and was premised on the idea that you could get people to...
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- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) When she was little, Brianna Kim (MS/MBA 2023) fell in love with the hard sciences and expected to eventually go to medical school or earn a PhD. But her plans changed after college. Kim grew up outside Washington, DC, as the hearing daughter...
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- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
donations. So, my coauthor, Dale Miller, and I looked at whether different framings of that situation can impact people’s willingness to give. There are two ways to frame a...
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- July–August 2018
- Article
Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods
By: Frank Nagle
As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by...
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Nagle, Frank. "Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods." Organization Science 29, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 569–587.
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
start or for course materials, so word gets spread around that it doesn’t pay to have bad ethics,” says Larry Ackman, who expects more episodes to be made. Additionally, the...
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- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
loyal in the traditional sense, ready to jump ship when their employers fail to meet expectations. Yet too many companies are falling short in their efforts to recruit the best...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
millennials of the merits of their company; others pay lip service to their concerns by making superficial policy changes. Companies struggling to recruit millennials should...
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