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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
history of prejudice that these attitudes stem from. But he also demonstrated the U.S.’s ongoing need for purposeful and inclusive leadership, and I hope to spend my career defending individual liberties and creating warm, empathetic...
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- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
vaccinated early (the innovators, early adopters, and majority) while others will wait (the late majority and laggards). So, how do we maximize the number of individuals in any prioritized group who are willing, if not eager, to get...
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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing in the...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?
By: Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han and Sunil Gupta
Social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace have witnessed a rapid growth in their membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to... View Details
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Marketing;
Network Effects;
Sales;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Web Sites;
South Korea
Iyengar, Raghuram, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta. "Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-123, April 2009.
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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked
At the top of each program page on the HBS Executive Education website, you'll find the dates of the program, the location for the program (or for individual modules within the program), and what type of learning is involved. For example:...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
it is turning our land, from sea to shining sea, into a sour jungle, noisy, dirty, gritty, and infinitely depressing.” In MacDonald’s fiction, that inherent tension is front and center when he depicts business and commerce as contributing to the downfall of View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
companies to be sure, but also small- and medium-sized businesses, individual households, and cities and states. And all of these entities (with the exception of US states) can in principle file for bankruptcy protection. But all such...
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- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
Versus Emergent Strategy For example, Christensen cites business scholars Henry Mintzberg and James Waters, who in 1985 published a paper defining two forms of strategies: deliberate and emergent. A deliberate strategy, they explained, is a roadmap that a company or an...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
connection that occurs through knowledge exchange on the local level or across wider cluster networks.” In that sense, she says, clusters become platforms for development, which has present-day implications for corporations, governments, and View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
them to perform, and they can exercise more of their own individual player preferences. By contrast, when performance is weak, coaches feel more pressure to improve, and so they put aside their internal biases in favor of more impartial...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
want to dictate it because, ultimately, these are their community resources. What have you learned about scaling or replicating this model in other communities? We’ve been learning in two directions. We’ve seen a wave of interest from View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
Wahlen of MIT Sloan—examine whether such “wisdom of the crowd” can beat the odds in predicting a blockbuster at a higher rate than the gut of an individual producer. "While some companies have used crowdsourcing as a way to make decisions...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
sample have worked hard to keep workers productive, motivated, engaged, and connected through concerted actions. To compensate for the stress caused by remote working, several companies introduced flexible schedules to allow balancing teamwork and uninterrupted View Details
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
and no action." In Diomande Yantoulaye's opinion, "As managers, millennials strongly diffuse responsibility/accountability at individual levels in their organizations their willingness to continuously acquire knowledge makes...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
of transition look like, and what can we learn from it? And how will it affect the career paths of individual venture capitalists?" Analyzing this process has put Wasserman hot on the trail of many more areas of inquiry that promise to...
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- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
predators and no there is no place for them in positions of power, ever, anywhere.” Janie added, “There is compelling evidence suggesting that many CEOs have strong narcissistic qualities, border on sociopathic tendencies, and often turn workplaces into ‘veritable...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals
veterans, and facilitate externally-funded fellowships like the Black Family Fellowship, Timothy Day Fellowship, and others. Individual financial circumstances dictate much of the extent of this tradeoff, but you should also consider the...
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another in person. How are people doing? What challenges are they...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
ethos of concentrated ownership—the business group over the individual stock owner. After the "Licence Raj," the period of tight government control of the private sector that ended in 1991, corporate families could finally stretch...
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1999. 1998 Paul A. Gompers : Winner of the 1998 American Association of Individual Investors Award for Best Paper on Investments at the Western Finance Association Meeting. Paul A. Gompers :...
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