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1.17 Field Based Learning/Independent Projects - MBA
Conducting Company-Sponsored Field Research Students must avoid deceptive practices and obtain informed consent from all individuals interviewed as part of a project. When conducting interviews or performing any other work for company...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
working, avoid using the word "retired." Instead, explain how you are transitioning into a new phase of your career. If you're still in a full-time corporate role, be sure to carefully tailor how you describe yourself to make it clear...
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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by...
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by James Heskett
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2.4 Disciplinary Process - MBA
from MBA Program leadership will determine the appropriate sanctions such as warning letters, temporary notations on student transcripts, probation, and community service. A student has the right to appeal the Program’s decision to the...
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- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
(iStockphoto/tofumax) A corporate board’s most important decision is selecting the organization’s CEO. By the same token, one could argue that a board’s most distasteful decision concerns firing a CEO. Once...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create value by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
you’re not accustomed to reflection, it might feel weird, like you’re wasting time. But you would be wrong. In fact, reflection helps leaders make better decisions faster. Leaders must constantly assess a dynamic environment to gain...
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by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
[students] to consider these issues when they face them, be better leaders, and avoid making decisions that they will regret." That's the bigger lesson of Armstrong's story. "There was one...
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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
as a result, but also avoiding disasters. The ice cream and other foods businesses were built patiently by the acquisition of one local firm after another, and their melding into the Unilever model. Following the National Starch...
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- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
33 more are planned to launch this year. Like Mercadona, a Spanish supermarket chain that Ton profiled in a case last year, QuikTrip systematically makes operating decisions that are good for employees, customers, and profits, she says....
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- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
if restricting background checks might backfire, especially if employers resort to racial stereotypes to guess who might have a criminal record—and avoid hiring those people. So the researchers conducted field experiments involving the...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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also appreciated that Lumet’s decision to speak out against Simmons must have been an excruciating one. “The implications of naming him, an iconic and successful black man, are absolutely loaded for a black woman,” Dixon says, citing the...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
conclusions about the universality of gender stereotype content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49830 in press Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Should You Sleep on It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep...
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- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
and he's up front about that in How Will You Measure Your Life? But in explaining the value of applying academic theories, the book avoids a religious bent, thanks in part to coauthor Allworth's avowed atheism. "That was tough,"...
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by Carmen Nobel
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
professionals who aspire to advance to senior leadership positions typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78...
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- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
major advances in energy technology it is unlikely that the world will be able to reduce green-house gas emissions rapidly enough to avoid a substantial increase in the risk of significant climate change. This book hopes to contribute to...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of...
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by John P. Kotter