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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation...
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- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
from around the world. The resulting book includes several of the papers and lectures that were presented at the conference, providing a wide range of views about China's past, present, and future. In this excerpt, editor William C. Kirby, an View Details
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by William C. Kirby
- 07 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation
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by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
keen exhibitors are to free up screens on which to show it, how much space foreign journalists allocate to reviewing it, and so on. As conventional wisdom suggests, the key drivers of success in the U.S. also apply to foreign markets....
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- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
second campaign is the Michelin tire ad portraying the tire as a container—another deep metaphor—of safety for one's family, especially children. The last version of the ad, which ran for many years, showed a child positioned within a...
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- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
the journal Academy of Management Discoveries. She coauthored the research with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Michaela Kerrissey and HBS doctoral student Derrick Bransby. Do employees feel safe to call out...
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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
would take 30 days. Bush apparently concluded that GM would not fail during the remaining days of his watch, and Obama was not willing to see the US auto sector implode as a result of the bankruptcy of GM. Studies showed that the loss of...
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- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
value and maintaining control of the enterprise—what I call the Rich vs. King dilemma. Rich vs. King is central for two reasons. First, data that I analyzed with Dr. Tim Butler of HBS and that I detail in the book View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
solitary pursuit of writing, not jockeying for advancement in a business organization. Even so, according to HBS professor Teresa Amabile, a good look at Irving's life to date reveals fascinating lessons on how to think about the notion...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
research on anchoring and adjustment, for instance, we show that when presented with a desirable product, consumers anchor on scenarios of successful redemption and adjust insufficiently for things that could go wrong in the redemption...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
Credit: iStockPhoto Who are the editors of HBS Working Knowledge most thankful for as the new year begins? It’s the readers who take time to contribute comments to our stories, more than 1,000 in 2017. Since our readership extends to more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation...
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- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
Frequent shopping programs that reward customers with discounts or other perks are commonplace in grocery stores, but many are not as effective in influencing buying behavior as they could be, argues HBS professor Rajiv Lal. "The...
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- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which...
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by Ann Cullen
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Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni
might be, and your unique skill set. The best way to convince employers that you will add value is to show them that you've done it before. Alumni Resume Book Our Alumni Resume Book connects you with organizations looking for talent....
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- 21 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School
In 2013, HBS celebrated 50 years of women in the MBA program. Eight women joined the Class of 1965 – and this year 383 women from the Class of 2015 walked across the stage to collect their diplomas. So what is it like to be a woman in...
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
available below. 2024 Fall Reunion Livestreams—September 27 & 28, 2024 Tap into the energy and excitement of reunion from wherever you are around the world. Join livestreams with Dean Datar and HBS faculty members, live from Klarman Hall,...
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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
In some respects, developing strategy is the easy part. Executing that strategy in alignment with strategic priorities is where real mastery of management takes place. We asked Harvard Business School senior lecturer Frank V. Cespedes, who is faculty chair of a new...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels of professors and alumni on everything from...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette