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- 05 Dec 2022
- News
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
- 13 Jan 2017
- News
An American Fault Line: High School-Only Grads Left Behind
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Scott. The book looks at the changing image of the salesman, represented by the likes of George Babbitt and Willy Loman. In the end, says Friedman, salesmen not only fed America's thirst for consumerism, they also shaped it. Laura Linard:...
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by Laura Linard
- 05 Apr 2024
- News
Classroom Culture and Norms Working Group Q+A
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
intermediate term, we will see companies that rely on global supply chains be hurt. Once companies run through their existing safety stocks of raw materials or parts provided by a far-flung supplier base, they may face challenges filling...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
the organization. Chief People Officer Hanna Fager talks to Joseph Fuller about the process, from lining up skills to maintaining an inclusive corporate culture. The Parlor Room Mihir Desai on Apple's...
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by Danielle Kost
- 12 Nov 2014
- News
How to fix the broken market for middle-class jobs
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
Case Study and a Model," you tackle this widely held belief. Is it borne out by reality? What surprised you about the experience of STAR TV in Asia? Ghemawat: It is widely believed that globally standardized product varieties are...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
"spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an appropriate way to help people feel...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2022
- News
More Workers without Degrees Are Landing Jobs. Will It Last?
- 08 Apr 2022
- News
A Four-Year Degree Isn’t Quite the Job Requirement It Used to Be
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
knew of them. The first N.C.R. sales script was the creation of Patterson's brother-in-law Joseph H. Crane. "How I Sell National Cash Registers," which became known as the Primer, contained instructions not only on what salesmen...
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by Walter A. Friedman
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
Buyers and sellers in mature industrial markets can turn single transactions into long-term beneficial relationships by a deeper understanding of the complex connection between the two, says Harvard Business School professor Narakesari...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
I'll ask a participant at random, 'Do you have that clarity in your company?' And there's always a pause. That pause gives them away." To illustrate the importance of clear purpose, The Strategist touts Swedish home goods retailer IKEA, founded in 1943 View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
example, data from 2015 show that just 16 percent of existing US production-worker supervisors had a college degree, but 67 percent of the job postings for the same position required degrees, shows research by HBS Professor View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald