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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
the world has three. I don't mean to boast. And there are lots of things that we've been working on since the eighties. We've been trying to get an HIV vaccine since the 1980s and we've been unsuccessful. Neeley: So, where does this leave...
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- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just...
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- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1...
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- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
huge understanding of your market and the way the world works. You’re leaving money on the table! You’re not going to make as much money as you could by not considering the experience of racialized “others.” Think about the tech space. I...
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by Barbara DeLollis
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
shut down and has seen no revenue, with thousands of employees home, since November. 2. Lead by example Managers should model the behavior they want to see in others. If they say employees can leave the office or avoid travel, but the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
the daily gathering of parents and kids at the same table every night for dinner can make that time feel less like eating an ordinary meal and more like sharing a meaningful family ritual. Types of rituals: from date nights to chores In...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global pandemic has introduced new formats, patterns, challenges, and...
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by Tsedal Neeley
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
solutions to this issue include membership-only stores or allowing for price matching so that the consumer is unlikely to leave the showroom without making a purchase. Retailers must find ways to get consumers or manufacturers to pay for...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
independently from their parent organizations. Even in ventures with comparable staffing levels and start dates, those that had separated from the core business were more innovative and had higher market-penetration rates than those that...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
the chaos theory—a mix of passion and practicality, risk and reward," said Carl Horton (HBS MBA '95). His parents moved to Washington, DC, in 1978 to work for Jimmy Carter, Horton recalled, initiating his interest in politics. Over...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents...
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- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
road ahead. Specifically, the authors address the entrepreneur before, during, and after the decision to create a new venture. Entrepreneurs need to realize that they are assuming a managerial role—both in a product and a people sense. New Business Ventures, 6th...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
cried," she said. "People still remember that and bring it up." Moderator Robin Levy closed the panel with advice of her own: Get support. "Everyone tells you what you should do and how you should feel, but you don't know what you'll want until [you...
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by Wendy Guild
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
inventors of the iPhone. The Power of Presence at the Podium Amy Cuddy Running for office requires a lot of public speaking. But often, it’s what candidates aren’t saying that can make or break their campaigns. Take the case of Dan Silver, an experienced...
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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
some people numbers speak, but I don’t think numbers speak to him. I give him a lot of credit for realizing this early on. Back in the 1960s a Citibank offer was like a golden ticket in India. People wouldn’t leave that job, and I’m sure...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have earned associate’s degrees in cybersecurity, arming them with in-demand skills and preparing...
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by Kristen Senz
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
teaching the second-year MBA courses on investment management and capital markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in...
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