Harvard Business School
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The most successful startups have hands-on founders
Research by Rembrand Koning and colleagues says the best-performing startups are those where the founder is hands-on with people management
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Want to be happier? Spend some money on avoiding household chores
In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, and Rene Bekkers
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The three types of leaders who create radical change
Every successful social movement requires three distinct leadership roles: the agitator, the innovator, and the orchestrator, according to institutional change expert Julie Battilana
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Do Bitcoin and digital currency have a future?
Is digital currency such as Bitcoin a real investment opportunity or just the next Tulip mania? James Heskett flips a coin and asks his readers
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'Likes' lead to nothing-and other hard-learned lessons of social media marketing
A decade-and-a-half after the dawn of social media marketing, brands are still learning what works and what doesn't with consumers
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What are the limits of CEO activism?
Should CEOs actively speak out when they encounter social injustice—even if their beliefs may not shared by employees, board members, or many shareholders? James Heskett asks, what are the limits to a chief executive's soapbox?
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Why can't organisations engage their employees?
An engaged employee is a difference maker, yet the number of actively disengaged employees far exceeds the number of engaged ones, notes James Heskett. What do you think is key to firing up the workforce?
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It's hard to fix the family business without offending the family
Navigating complex relationships and understanding unwritten processes are among the many challenges of transitioning a family-owned business to the next generation. Len Schlesinger, Michael Raiche, and Roger Zhu discuss the dilemmas of a small Vietnamese restaurant in the case study "Pho Hoa Dorchester."
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Can innovation save us from ourselves?
Can technology and wisdom save the world from its most pressing problems? James Heskett looks at a recent book on the subject, 'Homo Deus,' applauded often by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. What do YOU think?
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Having no life is the new aspirational lifestyle
It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle. Today, lack of leisure time is the real status symbol. Anat Keinan discusses what that means for consumer marketing
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Can Amazon do what Walmart couldn't, stop the 'wheel of retailing'?
Walmart couldn't do it. Now it's Amazon's turn to break the theory of the "wheel of retailing." Can Amazon succeed? Is the wheel model even a helpful concept anymore? asks James Heskett.