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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
alone. They’re doing it to make an impact.” And sometimes, they’re doing it because they see an opportunity that their employer doesn’t. Draper followed the development of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology and tracked down the founders...
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Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
short term. Unlike the typical partisan play, we’re investing resources with a long-term goal: We’re not just expecting results in the next election, which is a pretty unusual way to engage in politics, unfortunately. We’re taking the time to make sure the system is...
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- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
ways, either by saying, “Here’s my question, and here’s why I’m asking the question” or by saying, “Here’s what I know, and here’s what I don’t know.” This signals to the employer that you have done quite a bit of homework to get a feel...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2013 Address | About
don’t know all the answers. That attitude is at the heart of the second personal characteristic I will ask you to consider today: ADAPTABILITY. During spring break, while many of you took the chance to travel, I too took a trip of my own...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
healthcare.Fuller: Developments in the healthcare sector in employment are very widely written about—throughout Covid, obviously, where so many essential workers from healthcare were put through immense burdens, very stressful, lots of...
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- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Organizations that can satisfy this drive for their employees will find them highly motivated in return. People are desperate for a chance to feel in control, as if they are making a difference. Managers meet the drive to comprehend by:...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Organizations that can satisfy this drive for their employees will find them highly motivated in return. People are desperate for a chance to feel in control, as if they are making a difference. Managers meet the drive to comprehend by:...
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- September 2020
- Case
Uber at a Crossroads (2017)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its...
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Business Startups;
Business Model;
Customer Satisfaction;
Fairness;
Values and Beliefs;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Investment;
Government Legislation;
Business History;
Compensation and Benefits;
Resignation and Termination;
Employment;
Wages;
Lawfulness;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management Style;
Market Entry and Exit;
Digital Platforms;
Product Design;
Organizational Culture;
Problems and Challenges;
Attitudes;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Transportation Networks;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Valuation;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Uber at a Crossroads (2017)." Harvard Business School Case 721-376, September 2020.
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
narrative. Maybe they don't have the educational opportunities or the employment opportunities and they represent a whole bunch of things. Education. I profile a couple in music in the book, for example. And they are people who are wildly...
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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to limit the stigma from rejection. We find conditions under which sellers opt for an ambitious certification...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
highlights how the US can work to make the most out of that gift. Bill, congratulations on the book. Welcome. Bill Kerr: Thank you. It’s a pleasure to be here. It’s also a little different to be on this side of the table. Fuller: On that side of the mic. Well,...
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- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
candidates: Don't underestimate the importance of likability. Help prospective employers understand why you deserve what you're requesting. Make it clear that they can get you. Understand the person across the table from you. Understand...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
me fair pay, I’m out of here, because I can work full time at home. I can change employers by changing email addresses. I don’t have to drive across the town and interview at another company to get another...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
few months earlier. “If there's the right opportunity out there. ...There's a possible chance that I'd love to reconnect,” Gronkowski recalled telling Brady. “[Brady] was all fired up and juiced up about it.” Business Take Aways NFL teams...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of psychology to study what’s wrong, which is really important, but he saw this big gap, and so he started studying success inside organizations. I had a chance to work with him—and a number of us did—to build pretty massive databases....
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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a U.N. treaty that by 2006 had been signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States. The treaty established three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of...
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Sean Silverthorne