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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
is, having chicken any way you want it. But there’s no single ad that’s going to convert you. The effectiveness derives from a thousand teeny things that, over time, can get you to believe that this is a brand that I want to spend time...
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
City released the 'New' New York Plan focused on transforming the city's job centers to support the ways people will live and work in the future. A set of initiatives emerged to serve as a roadmap to make New York City the best place to...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
with the literature on heuristics and biases), and the study of thinking too much (as with the literature on decision analysis). In this review, we focus on the different types of decision errors that result from both modes of thought. For thinking too little, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
an assistant professor at HBS in the marketing unit while Ariely is a professor of management science at MIT. Even when we have well-articulated stories about the kind of person we want to meet, we’re often wrong.—Michael Norton While...
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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through war stories. So when I heard...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. He lays out areas of inquiry, including questions such as (1) Do I clearly articulate my vision and top priorities?; (2) Does the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
illustration by Cathy Gendron When the pressure is on and the going gets messy, Swanee Hunt, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, can usually find a diplomatic way to discuss just about any situation. But for Hunt, a parent of three, and...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone
generous gifts from alumni and friends that enable the School’s efforts to bring faculty with unique perspectives and experiences to the classroom. “Professor Roscini excels as a practitioner — he has found a way to marry his dynamic...
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- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
structural, I reject the premise that the T can’t balance its budget,” he said in an interview in his office. “I reject the premise that that’s just the way it is. I think we can.” The article also traces Shortsleeve’s career, which began...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
schools. All of them were among the lowest-performing schools in the state of Massachusetts and all of those schools are high-performing today. “I am always thinking about the many ways that we can improve as an organization, and there...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
better-than-average pay. 1993 In response to outrage over executive pay levels, Congress imposes a $1 million cap on tax deductibility of executive compensation, except for performance-based pay. Afterwards, stock option awards explode as a View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
the Metropolitan Opera. "There's no other technology out there that can get to the core of music-making the way we do," she says. "When I watch and listen to someone use the product, it gives me a glimpse of how we could transform the...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the...
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David Gellis
Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab to test ideas for improving...
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Bobby Daly
business problems." Absorbing different learning styles Unlike most of his joint MD/MBA colleagues, Bobby completed a year at HBS before beginning his studies at Harvard Medical School. "I came to HBS because I liked the large class size," says Bobby....
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Priorities Including Financial Aid An easy way for all alumni to support financial aid is through the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund play a critical role in the School’s ability to meet the growing...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
other birders might want to buy. Thayer hired a group of programmers to help him complete the project. “I thought I was about 90 percent done,” he recalls. “In hindsight, I was about 2 percent of the way there. It turned out that what...
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- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
responsibility for poor performance and continue to get highly paid, it's no wonder there is widespread dissatisfaction." E. Shields stated that it may be the result of disappointed expectations: "People believe that their work should allow them to use their...
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing on a descriptive rather than a normative approach...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
management and maintenance services to owners of the Eclipse VLJs in existence. Linear will have permission to fly those and pass along 85 percent of revenues to their owners. “It’s a way to grow without expending any capital,” remarks...
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