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- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
inhibitors had done to my sister and neuropathy and all her challenges. And so I knew that was the right decision for me. DM: But it was interesting, your screening came as a result of a conversation that you had that sort of, raised your... View Details
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3D Negotiaton
In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
universities represented, hundreds of companies, many, many lived experiences and backgrounds. Cyril: Absolutely. It's really important for the classroom for there not to be one sort of profile. We really do need that diversity of... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
Lane and her colleagues sorted responses evaluating robot arm designs into three categories of evaluator: unscreened, screened through a human resources-like questionnaire examining their credentials, and those that took a robotics skills... View Details
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All Functions - Recruiting
Class of 2024 Class of 2023 Class of 2022 Class of 2021 Class of 2020 Sort By: A-Z A-Z Highest to Lowest Lowest to Highest Industry by % Median Base Salary Median Signing Bonus Median Variable Bonus Business Development 8% $145k 25th... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
clustered positions were more likely to copy an incorrect theory from a neighbor than their less-clustered counterparts. "We realized that the network structure seemed to have opposite effects for searching for information and searching for solutions," Shore... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
“These firms often have a ton of employees with great ideas, and if they can get their management strategies right, I think they could benefit the most from this sort of A/B testing technology,” says Koning, who is currently studying... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
frightening, affecting, particularly, young males otherwise prone to all sorts of radical beliefs—and a lot of other things, such as the status of women. "Adaptation and liberalization can happen quickly if the government is in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
algorithm generates fair outcomes. As the algorithm sorts through information to optimize its objective, BEAT detects and eliminates bias at key points in the training process. For instance, BEAT could help a car service charge surge... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
recent initiative that depends largely on student test scores to measure teacher efficacy. “There are all sorts of debates in the United States and, more generally, across the globe about how to improve the quality of students’ life in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
just below the Arctic Circle in Alaska, Denali is protected as part of a national park, which means the sort of semi-permanent infrastructure that aids expeditions elsewhere is not permitted, and climbers have to carry all their own gear.... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
sorting the data took 55,000 computer hours. “It’s an astounding amount of data,” she says. In an initial analysis, the researchers found that the total number of global emails spiked after lockdowns and work-at-home orders were issued in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
show the buyout’s effect. In the end, they were left with 9,800 firms bought out between 1980 and 2013 and were able to follow 6,000 firms with a high-enough confidence to determine outcomes. Stark differences When they finally sorted... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
of this sort could be a valuable addition to many if not most companies in at least five ways: as a source of knowledge and expertise, as a sounding board and constructive critic, as a driver of accountability, as a stimulus for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computation—or lose their edge by failing to jump on the technology early enough. As a result, companies that deal with the sort of complex use-cases that could benefit from quantum computation should begin playing with the technology... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
Foreign Policy, July-August 2003], I became so fascinated with China that I began to travel extensively there. In the course of writing this book I spent time with all sorts of people in better and the less well-traversed parts of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
changer. But it’s going to take a long time.” While some world cities have already shifted from curbside pickup to communal containers—oft-cited examples include Barcelona, where citizens sort their refuse into color-coded bins, and... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
convince an employee that wasn’t performing to measure to get up to the level that we were expecting. And now, all of a sudden, I was confronted with my wife saying, “I want to get separated and divorced,” and all those tools that had always been able to View Details