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- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
there is established research showing that while it's true that facial expressions reflect how you feel, you can also 'fake it until you make it.' In other words, you can smile long enough that it makes you feel happy. This work extends that finding on facial feedback,...
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by Julia Hanna
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the opportunity to ask a question,...
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- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
through changes in problem solving, coordination, and standardization. They also draw on a framework of 4 principles of the Toyota Production System defined by HBS professor Kent Bowen and Steven Spear (HBS DBA '99): Rule 1: All work...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
find time to do it," he says simply, pulling a bookmarked copy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song off his desk. "Sometimes, in a rare quiet moment, I'll close my door and read." —Julia Hanna
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- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
In the new book International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications, Harvard Business School Adjunct Professor David J. Collis presents a comprehensive guide to a topic of ever-increasing relevance for managers across all sectors and industries. View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
working closely with students in small groups, assisting teachers, and running extracurricular programs.) The ethos of the school centers on a “no excuses,” high standards approach for performance and behavior, backed by a system of...
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by Julia Hanna
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
Advertisers pay millions of dollars to air TV ads that, by some estimates, more than a third of viewers skip over with digital VCRs or by switching channels or tuning out altogether. New research View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
foster care, the vast number of children available for adoption is the most obvious "low-tech" solution to satisfy demand. However, this availability is complicated by racial preferences (most people want children who look like...
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- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families and singletons? Much has been written...
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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
suggests that at least some online content creators, namely bloggers, respond to the arrival of advertising revenue by changing what they cover, drifting toward subjects of broad interest—money, sex, and celebrities—to the detriment of...
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- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
world," notes Simons. The topic of marketing, taught by Professor John Quelch, is brought up to the executive boardroom level, says Simons. “There's a realization that they only have so much time left.” Professor Julio Rotemberg...
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- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
Administration. "As a brand, leadership, and entrepreneurship scholar, I've been dogging Starbucks for a long time." On a 1995 trip to Seattle, Koehn visited a Starbucks store for the first time and was struck by what she saw...
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- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by...
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- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on...
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- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
scheduled, first served basis. Airlines can then respond by making changes within their allocated slots before the final schedule is approved. Because GDPs and AFPs are implemented separately, however, a flight affected View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
of wisdom and many others were made famous by Benjamin Franklin in his 1758 essay known as The Way to Wealth, first published as a sermon delivered by “Father Abraham” in Poor Richard’s Almanack. “I’m...
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by Julia Hanna
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest...
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- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
Beijing National Stadium, also called the "Bird's Nest," has been in use since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. (bingdian) Few sporting events can equal the pageantry, scale, and drama of the Olympic Games. When an Olympic host city is announced, champagne...
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- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online Attention was written by Andre...
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- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
you receive for your contributions are now labeled "transfer payments" or "expenditures" by the government. But they could, in part, equally well be called "repayment of principal plus interest." This...
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by Julia Hanna