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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
unrelated issues in which a decision may be endogenously delayed by the allocation of influence resources. Delay is strategically interesting when decision makers with asymmetric preferences face multiple issues and have limited resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
considerations seem central in the demand for redistribution, and because in several settings (as in some ultimatum games) such preferences for fairness can lead to large (material) inefficiencies. In this note we report a difficulty we encountered when interpreting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
channel partners. Make no mistake: What we advocate in this book is not always easy. The analyses and processes we recommend are meant to be adaptive and continuous, and they are aimed at reaching the ultimate goal in steps, with the... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
business as possible, but to think that you're going to apply a model to it, you're in the wrong business. You need to go do something else. And certainly the Derby is the pinnacle. And people that get into the business in a substantive way, if you ask them what their... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
multiple constituents, some of them the “time vampires” that he names as one of his greatest fears. Taking the nonprofit route to public service has meant he can move more quickly while still influencing policy. The downside, he admits,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
George Harad has worked to erase former boundaries between the CEO's office and the company's front lines. He responds daily to dozens of electronic mail messages received from employees throughout the company. "The ease of communication and the ability to manage View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
different time zones, so you have to trust that they’re going to wake up and respond to you at the first available opportunity. But just letting go is hard, I guess. PC: I couldn’t agree more. It has actually been very eye-opening: As long as you are enabling your... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
consultancy firm that broadly rated management practices in three areas: monitoring—how well managers keep track of what's happening in a firm and make good use of that information; targets—how well organizations set appropriate goals and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
persona. I can check multiple boxes, but don't box me. Filipinos in the U.S. might be the third biggest Asian immigrant group, but our culture has not diffused tremendously. Maybe, the Filipinos who came before me chose to mute instead of... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
being neither for many students. His opening class asked three framing questions for the week ahead: What problems beset US colleges? What root cause led to those problems? What intervention in practice and policy will improve the sector? Over four days, students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and responsibilities of business and business... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
investigating the effects of psychological safety on process improvement in a number of hospital intensive care units. One future research goal is to study multiple voice episodes for a given individual, so... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
[ought to] have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals which keeps it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevents its drifting in undesired directions" (emphasis added). As shown in the case of Alfred Sloan at General... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
90 students to break into multiple small groups or reassemble as a whole. Moon calls the hives a breakthrough in how to foster a different kind of teaching and learning. While the FIELD course has garnered most of the attention,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time is available, in View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the managerial and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
many tradeoffs Barge must make in balancing the benefits of the former organization with those of the new structure to achieve the firm's strategic goal of becoming more customer-solutions oriented. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace