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- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
person’s preferences. What we’re trying to show is that this often is not the case.” Second-guess your assumptions One strategy that might encourage us to keep an open mind about other people’s decisions: Think about the nuances that...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
the public domain, it's already reflected in the stock price," says Cohen. "Investment insight is something you understand that no one else does." Cohen says that in the course students are encouraged to find those special...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
education into some of the most outstanding modern universities of the last century. And finally, the state has recently encouraged entrepreneurship with massive investments in research and development. "If you look at those three things,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
since that wasn't possible, John and her colleagues used the enhanced charitable-giving incentive to encourage honest responses. The enhanced charity incentive increased the rates at which participating psychologists admitted to engaging...
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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
researchers and practitioners alike: What is the proper balance to be struck by a business between encouraging autonomy so that employees can ignore red tape to serve the customer quickly and efficiently, and mitigating the risk that...
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- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Each year, MIT, local business groups, and state agencies co-sponsor a competition designed to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
difference between stealth positioning and deceit. The difference is both ethical and economic. When used thoughtfully, stealth positioning is a legitimate way to diffuse prejudice about a product or company, encourage acceptance, and...
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by Youngme Moon
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If the responses are an indication, any attempt to View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
internal side, he said, and both of those are necessary for happiness. Platinum Standards And Sticking To Them As the third speaker, Scott W. Ventrella offered his own story to encourage members of the audience to look inside for answers....
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
whole new generation is being encouraged to think of news not as something which goes with toast and marmalade, but as something which is critical to performance." The news and media leaders in this new environment, said Job, will...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
and more companies have adopted a service management view of the world, which means being locally responsive to customers. As a result, firms have to decentralize and encourage their frontline employees to make decisions on their own. To...
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- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
Search Days. Companies are encouraged to use these days for interviews to avoid the complication of scheduling interviews around class time on other days. K – Klarman Hall. Klarman is our newest building on campus and the largest...
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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
recycling waste materials from retired products. Grundfos encourages its customers (both consumer and industrial) to return old pumps; they then fully deconstruct and repurpose or recycle the pump’s constituents. Today this program is...
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
hours in the workweek, and the rise in per capita income, more Americans now had the time and money to enjoy leisure activities once considered the privilege of the upper class. The Progressive Era of social activism and political reform from the 1890s to the 1920s...
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- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
Kellogg School of Management alumni club, a frequent partner for events. Guests were encouraged to bring a cocktail that commemorated the 1930s architecture of the symphony center. She adds the MSO will partner with the HBS Club of...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
not to mention our own self-esteem — are on the line.” Kanter’s recommendations, which span economic, social, and government concerns, include securing the country’s future by nurturing innovation; getting the work-family balance right; View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
she continues, “because they encourage that style of management, both internally with my team at KAGR and in our approach to helping client companies gain an edge on competitors. In sports and in business, the key to good leadership is to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last year’s winning idea: a polymer-producing bacteria that eats away at microbial scale formation...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
fiction," remarks Pamela Thomas- Graham. A few years into her career at McKinsey & Co., Thomas-Graham remembers feeling that her work/life balance was "starting to get a little askew
I wasn't having much opportunity to explore the creative side of my personality."...
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