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- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship...
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- August 2012 (Revised October 2012)
- Technical Note
Congruence Model Note
By: Shon R. Hiatt and James Weber
This note describes the Congruence Model, a method by which an organization can assess whether its building blocks (critical tasks, formal organizational arrangements, people, and culture) are aligned (congruent) with its strategy. The model postulates that...
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Hiatt, Shon R., and James Weber. "Congruence Model Note." Harvard Business School Technical Note 413-037, August 2012. (Revised October 2012.)
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live...
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- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
reports delivered to employees at all sorts of companies. I’m often struck by the way the process can break down. First, what the givers intend to convey and what they actually express to recipients may differ dramatically. Second, what...
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by Francesca Gino
- Web
Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
business strategy—and identified a set of customers who were willing to pay a premium for healthy, environmentally friendly food. Shared Value and Company Strategy: Whole Foods Markets Natural, fresh, organic, and freshly prepared foods...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. The goal of the event was simple: to get financing. "This is about money changing hands," Harvard Business School professor Myra M. Hart, forum...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA
Learning/Independent Projects 1.18 FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School...
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- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
manufacturing processes and stem reputational damage. In one of the costliest recalls in history, Johnson & Johnson spent more than $100 million in 1982 (more than $260 million in today’s dollars) to recall 31 million bottles of...
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- 11 May 2023
- News
How FOMO Became a Fixture
book, do a TED Talk, and create a podcast, all about how FOMO shapes decision-making in business and life. "Given the power of the term, I knew that I had to do something to ensure that my connection to FOMO was unambiguous, particularly...
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- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Most Popular Articles 2013 How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a flat-out lie or a deliberate omission of key information, according to research by Lyn M. Van Swol,...
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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
employees will actually listen to tough messages, question old assumptions, and consider new ways of working. This means taking a series of deliberate but subtle steps to recast employees' prevailing views and create a new context for action. Such a shaping View Details
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- Web
How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
environment where moral behavior is instilled as proper behavior rather than imposed. How moral orders are built and sustained in organizations is of particular fascination to Harvard Business School Associate Professor Michel Anteby. His...
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- 02 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women
The higher a woman rises through a company’s ranks, the more backlash she faces if she negotiates her salary assertively—a phenomenon that contributes to the wide gender gap in the C-suite, new research suggests. By analyzing data from more than 2,500 negotiators,...
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by Kristen Senz
- December 2014
- Article
Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity
By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments...
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Private Equity;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Performance Productivity;
Jobs and Positions;
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Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda. "Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity." American Economic Review 104, no. 12 (December 2014): 3956–3990. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 17399 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 12-033.) (Originally called "Private Equity and Employment.")
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
It’s one thing to look at the entertainment business from an executive’s point of view. It’s quite another to see it through the eyes of a professional basketball player, supermodel, or actress. That mix of perspectives is exactly what...
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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity
percentage to 28 percent in 2020, but it has waned since then. [...] Read more 03 Sep 2024 Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action Tamara Lytle Author tag Board Diversity The process of appointing powerful board directors has been put...
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- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
reconfigured its internal units around customers and markets. Q: Obviously, this process involves substantial changes in the way companies do business. What can executives and managers do to motivate employees and ease the transition for...
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