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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
often very transferable for the next gig. What are you more aware of about yourself that you may not have known at the start of this journey? For example, you may have thought you were not technical, but after having to build your company’s first app because you...
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by Julia Austin
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
candidates at the same time, rather than hiring a single person in isolation. Think big and commit resources. When it comes to diversity, companies sometimes do just enough to avoid media scrutiny or reputational damage. It’s time for...
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by Danielle Kost
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its...
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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to ordinary television sets,...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
payments to support clients’ liquidity; helped salons apply to crisis relief funding such as unemployment support and rent postponement; hired consultants to create guidelines for safety measures in the salons, and shared them with each...
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- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
it's an uphill battle. Once someone is perceived as a star, I'm telling you, the load is lighter," he said. Hiring and socializing people so that they stay is something that takes practice. Organizations such as Southwest Airlines,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
people in learning conversations, coach, develop, and create a clear picture of the result, you probably will be thrilled with the result ." Others, while attracted to the idea in theory, characterized these views as too inclusive...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
'walking together.' You never know when you have to exchange roles." As a result, while several respondents seemed to favor the inclusion of material concerning followership in a course on leadership, there did not seem to be a...
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
micromanage. Create an inclusive environment and express interest in team members’ success and personal well-being. Be productive and results-oriented. Be a good communicator and listen to your team. Help your employees with career...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
perhaps more so than in any other industry, as the right answer to improve performance. Owners look to their team managers (coaches) to be game changers and bring back success to the organization, especially when the manager is hired in a...
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
“Setting up this ecosystem is better than a company trying to set up a point solution and directly train and hire people,” Kaplan says. “Without the intervention of a catalyst, the existing set of fragmented connections would have stayed...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
making up 40 percent of the Class of 2014. But a new case study shows that there's still a ways to go. “We want them to grapple with what it takes to build an organization, to leverage diversity and create an inclusive culture."...
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- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
organizations are, at once, on many right tracks and wrong tracks. “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” David Wittenberg concurred. As he put it, “organizations should View Details
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by James Heskett
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
with skills training to foster inclusion takes time, perhaps too much time to satisfy those impatient for the more immediate gratification of increasing numbers of minority hires and ringing the diversity...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
needed an advocate in case of a serious health problem. In a sense, we needed inclusion and “voice” just as much as the employees Amy Edmondson wrote about in her book, The Fearless Organization. We needed access to the medical system and...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
already being done by business enough? George Serafeim: Think about the following: in the past two decades, most companies have established sustainability departments, hired more people for social impact, invested more resources, and...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 918-009 Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Yelp This case explores the industry-wide lack of employee diversity in the technology sector and Yelp’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
William R., and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to...
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