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- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
sufficiently graphic don’t work. “San Francisco policymakers are devoting lots of time and money to fighting it out in court, and they’re operating on the assumption that text warning labels are going to work,” says HBS Marvin Bower...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
center—moms who will no longer have to spend hours commuting each day, and who will return home in the evening to find their kids crafting projects using the 3D printer in the building’s Teen Shack. Despite the stop-work order, Dlodlo is...
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- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
inside a family, he says, because it depends on "bribing" them every time you want them to do something—whether it's making their beds or just being nice to each other. Rather, he advocates psychologist Frederick Herzberg's Two-factor...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
losers. As one friend puts it, "They have a closet full of trophies without ever having won anything." Yet others talk about their having observed the way the rest of us have lived our lives (two jobs, too much View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
Papanikolaou, Kellogg School of Management. On balance, novel drugs with unproven chemical formulas are riskier to pursue because they are less likely to win approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. These drug candidates, which...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
foundations for working in and leading teams. There are various exercises surrounding communication, negotiation, team launches, emotional intelligence and self-awareness. The various forums set us all up for success in the remaining...
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- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
Overcoming that obstacle can be a difficult process, especially for entrepreneurs who have a background in a technical, engineering, or another non-sales discipline. They are not used to having to convince anyone of the merits of their...
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by Dennis Fisher
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
one-shot deal. Most companies use consultants to set a new strategy and then get on with it and start executing—until the next time they need a new strategy. Q: How can a company always be changing without...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl...
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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked
experiences, requiring you to disconnect from work and devote your full attention to the learning. Virtual programs are centered on live (synchronous) interactions with faculty and peers, but the required time commitment will vary. No...
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Understand power and how to use it responsibly to make a positive impact on society. The program expertly leads you through...
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- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
how we shop. So in that sense, if you create a sustainable business within that industry, you’re much more likely to have impact because it’s so influential. Q: Tell us a little bit about the fashion industry. A: Fashion is one of the...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
accepting and educating women. Hence, the country sports a large number of highly educated, highly qualified women with advanced degrees in business, engineering, economics, and foreign languages-all useful in corporate management....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
documents trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005 using data on more than a thousand schools. Such endowments have generally performed well over this View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
manager who misses a family dinner and blames the traffic, though he simply lost track of time. Likewise, an auditor's biases may lead her to unknowingly adapt over time to small imperfections in a client's financial practices....
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- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,...
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