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- 28 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
How to onboard recently graduated MBAs
shared expectations can become more complex.To reduce friction and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace, Brennan suggests a variety of policies and perspectives that can make onboarding more successful: In-person relationships... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
publishing) are likely to reshape the structure of demand for executive development. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas face on their path to scale and bring new technologies to the world, both as an investor and operator. I’m a technologist at heart, but if there's one realization that... View Details
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How to onboard recently graduated MBAs - Recruiting
perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is familiar means that establishing and promoting shared expectations can become more complex. To reduce friction and increase mutual... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
comparatively in the dark, creating an “information friction” that the freelancers can exploit. In a March 2015 working paper, Information Frictions and Observable Experience, Stanton, along with Catherine Thomas (PhDBE 2006) of the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
brilliant book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, about successful executives hitting points of friction as they grow, requiring changes in their behavior in order to continue to succeed. I often coach my entrepreneurs to assess... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that friction in the market between what the price is and what it should be, Cohen and Malloy stress the importance of identifying a "catalyst" that will cause the market to catch up. "It's one thing to say I am going to... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
incredibly intense competition," Stafford notes. "But students don't have much context to evaluate what that really means and to understand what types of frictions prevent markets from being competitive." "It's not so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
the tank platoon, issued a quick “five paragraph order” and then re-attacked at the breach site as the sun was setting. Overcoming the friction of the battlefield with all the changing variables of the approaching darkness and new... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
or 'institutional voids' on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets, affect the excess value of diversified... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
incentives of VC funds but hurts entrepreneurs. Eric’s discussion brought a whole new perspective: when a company is performing well and it attracts outside investors, pro rata rights of previous investors limit the amount of money new investors can invest, causing... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
literature on the role of financial frictions in macroeconomics, this paper suggests that time-variation in expected returns to credit-market investors can be an important driver of economic fluctuations. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
deal-driving third party (Ovitz). As a result, each side had an optimistic but badly distorted view of the other's real intentions, leading to post-deal friction and the sale of MCA a few years later to Seagram, at a substantial loss to... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
frictions throughout the value chain. With these structural impediments in mind, we visited WayCool Foods and Pixxel, two innovative companies that are attempting to improve economic conditions for farmers, while lowering the carbon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Chinese imports are flooding the domestic market. China recorded a $124 billion trade surplus with the United States last year, the biggest bilateral trade imbalance in history. Trade friction escalated late last year when the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US steel making. Similarly, Arkadi Kuhlmann, in putting together... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
on one side, and much quieter, more introverted individuals on the other, and show the events that led very normal people into extraordinary circumstances. In your descriptions of women commanding men, there isn’t any friction or... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard