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- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
launched Slack in 2014 as a work-team communications tool he hoped would be an “email killer,” as he put it. Slack made it easy for new customers to use, with a three-click signup and a bot driven by artificial intelligence that guided...
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- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
Employees often feel stressed when their firms are bought by other companies, fearing they could face layoffs, demotions, or lousy working conditions. While it’s true that organizations tend to restructure their workforce following...
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by Lane Lambert
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
president for research when she launched what proved to be the company's most successful "emerging business opportunity," the Life Sciences venture. She disrupted IBM's staid model by hiring genetic scientists and other specialists, and...
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by Lane Lambert
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
toward programs for education, the environment, and homelessness. But he grew frustrated by the limited impact of such donations—and he didn’t have a good answer when his children asked how he could be an environmentalist when he was...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
software start-up straight out of Yale. She was running the company by the time she left for HBS in 1992. After HBS, she helped launch Open Market, an Internet start-up that made e-commerce software, where she handled both marketing and...
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- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
commutes: “Firms need to care about this,” he says, “not just employees.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Unsplash/Alexander Popov] Will you resume your daily...
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by Lane Lambert
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian...
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- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
demand, which led to shipment delays, followed by pricing confusion and a series of public relations bungles—just as the pandemic eased and people began returning to gyms. Peloton scrambled by recalling...
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- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
Bojinov says. “That’s not something managers had to think about [before the pandemic]. Now, they do.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/SDI Productions]...
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by Lane Lambert
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
what may at first blush appear to be an easier fix: new drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, says Harvard Business School Professor Regina E. Herzlinger, who has studied the American health care system for decades. Wegovy has been approved View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
Sucher says. “For companies that want to take this seriously, it can be done.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/vernonwiley] How has a company tried to...
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by Lane Lambert
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
make work more comfortable and more predictable,” he says. “There are innumerable ways to use technology to create better jobs.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image:...
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- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
convicted Enron executives—he concluded that their crimes were seldom calculated, but rather inspired by gut feelings and a striking absence of empathy for the clients who lost their money. Soltes talked to HBS Working Knowledge about the...
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by Lane Lambert
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Company managers have likely heard the old quip: Business ethics is a contradiction in terms. That’s because too often, business is viewed as a hard-hearted enterprise, driven by getting ahead at all costs, even if that means cutting...
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by Lane Lambert
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
navigating from DVDs by mail to creating content. The venerable cereal company Kellogg has been shifting from breakfast food to snacks. McDonald says the big question is whether a company can use those moments to chart a path to improved...
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by Lane Lambert
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices...
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by Lane Lambert
- February 2020
- Supplement
Coaching Makena Lane
By: Ethan Bernstein
Video Supplement for "Coaching Makena Lane," product number 418-031. Videos include a collection of ~3 minute animated videos of 5 celebrity coaches answering the same 2 questions participants are asked in the teaching plan: 1. How would you evaluate Makena Lane’s...
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Executive Coaching;
Leadership Style;
Performance Evaluation;
Personal Development and Career
Bernstein, Ethan. "Coaching Makena Lane." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-718, February 2020.
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
that.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/joecicak] What steps did your organization take to weather the pandemic? Share your observations in the comments...
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by Lane Lambert
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
“However, a great deal of care is necessary to carefully ensure that indeed is the case.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/Delmaine Donson] What role...
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