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May 21 2012
Predictable Time Off: The Team Solution To Overcoming Constant Work Connection 
Reflecting on his relationship with his smartphone, one manager pronounced: "I love the thing and I hate it at the same time. The reason I love it is that it gives me so much power. And the reason I hate it is that it has so much power over me."
May 09 2012
Stop Trying to Be the Super Manager: New Book
Bold, confident, visionary leaders who take their businesses in new directions are widely admired and sought after. Isn't that a key part of strategy and leadership? Yes, but: when confidence balloons into the belief that a good manager can win in any situation, the business is headed for trouble.
May 03 2012
Panel: U.S. must find way to get ’mojo‘ rising again
Rivkin cited sobering statistics. Firms are three times more likely to ship jobs offshore than bring them back to the U.S., he said. The U.S. also loses the majority of decisions on where to locate new facilities. "The high-end work is moving out just as fast as everything else," he said of high-tech manufacturing jobs and complex work such as research and development.
Apr 29 2012
Keeping a Business Innovative
In a world captivated by the notion of innovation, what can sink a brilliant idea? And how can larger companies tap into the infectious creativity of smaller organizations?
Apr 27 2012
Women’s Founders Forum Offers Moral Support for Startups Across Harvard
"Don't think pitch and tell," says Harvard Business School senior lecturer Janet Kraus. "The purpose is to help them understand what the next steps are." These events were the culmination of a semester-long program at the Harvard Innovation Lab called the Women's Founders Forum, put together by Kraus, a serial entrepreneur who joined Harvard in 2010.
Apr 26 2012
Social Entrepreneurs Try to Offer Solutions to K-12 Problems
Meanwhile, at the Harvard Business School, a graduate-level course known as the Social Innovation Lab began this academic year to meet a rise in the number of students interested in conceptualizing and drawing up plans to launch education-related social ventures. Of the 14 plans in the current course, half are related to education, according to Allen Grossman, a business professor who co-teaches the course.
