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- 02 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Bitcoin
- 20 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Positive Professional Image
stereotypes can pose a challenge for creating a positive professional image if someone is perceived as being unable to live up to favorable expectations of their social identity group(s). For example, clients may question the qualifications of a freshly View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
“well-rounded team players” who can provide a broader view. Another key difference from the industry: Brown doesn’t hire newly minted MBAs. That’s because “we rely so heavily on the team dynamic,” Lee told the authors. “As a small...
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- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
ever about innovative financial endeavors. So that brings me to the subject of digital money or “cryptocurrency,” a form of encrypted digital money. How should we think about the future of a currency that is manufactured (“mined”) and priced in the private economy (as...
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- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49196 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 815-113 MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (B) This short (B) case gives an update on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for finance, strategy, and marketing. Yet all the mentoring and flexible schedules won’t matter if a company is...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
disclosures hit the headlines. For this reason, it is perhaps a good time to solicit creative ideas about how leading business schools that mint a high proportion of senior executives in large organizations can identify and weed out...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
his teaching career at Wharton. As a newly minted twenty-nine-year-old professor there, he said, he found himself the recipient of a steady stream of practical advice from the senior faculty. Don't hang back by the blackboard when...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
research agenda that she is now working on at Stanford. Luca notes that it is not just newly minted PhD economists entering the field, ticking off names of professors, many tenured, who have left positions at Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia,...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists also advised students to know the...
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by Carrie Levine
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
neutral, or even harmful to minting winning ideas. Testing for personality Koning and Hasan detail their findings in the paper Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment, to be published in Research Policy this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is much harder than you think-meet...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
capitalists to fund big bets on technology, research universities that mint PhDs, and a clear legal framework that protects intellectual property. In stark contrast, companies in developing countries lack these advantages. But does this...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
steps to re-virtualize the company under his leadership. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813057-PDF-ENG Peter Jepsen Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Jim SharpeHarvard Business School Case 813-046 Peter Jepsen, a newly View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
and perspective on crises both personal and global. GNH had become the country's brand and suggested a possible future for capitalism. Was Bhutan on to something? Was there really a tradeoff between growth and happiness, and, if so, was it acceptable? In early 2014,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
number of daily flights from 250 to a mere 21. Gary Kelly, Southwest's newly minted CEO, thought about what appeared to be a golden opportunity. How could Southwest best capitalize on Delta's withdrawal? As Kelly saw it, Southwest had...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
rate. Latvia's policy program and initial results are discussed in the case. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/711053-PDF-ENG Lyric Dinner Theater (A) Richard G. Hamermesh and James M. SharpeHarvard Business School Case 813-043 Looking back at five years of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
printing dollars, it's minting quarters. It's very, very problematic. Walmart has a new strategy that uses smaller stores, supercenters, and their warehouses in an ecosystem that includes ecommerce, but it's going to be a lot of work for...
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