Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

Second, I learned when to not trust my answer. For the entire first year, Harvard places new students in a section—a deliberately diverse group of 90 students. In each class, we’d come prepared, having read and analyzed a “case,” a business narrative always View Details

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a multidimensional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

the ESG investing. 5 Technologies That Will Change the World. How Will They Affect Your Journey as a Leader? Professor Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) + More Info – Less Info E.O. Wilson observed that the “real problem of humanity is that we... View Details

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Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling - MBA

before. Tired of how my credentials today may make others forget that maybe I, too, have failed or struggled — or have a past separate from the institutions with which I’m affiliated. I was born in Chhattisgarh, India, and didn’t think I would View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

crowds' breeds convenient conformity and creativity is often lost in the process." At the other end of the intuition-analysis spectrum, R. C. Saxena opined, "I believe intuition ought not to play any part . Sincere effort to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

emergent online investing market, we construct a theory to explain how a firm becomes a cognitive referent in a nascent market and other firms' failure to do so. Successful firms conceptualize market creation as problem solving; they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

when they have to recreate themselves as generalists. In this new generalist role, they end up knowing less and less about more and more. This is an extremely difficult and potentially very risky transition, and it can easily derail a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Continued: The Business Model What Does the Research Say? Show Hide Details Concepts Infectious Change Public Goods Problems Cooperation in the Real Economy Expanding on Purpose Featured Exercises Public good simulation game Prisoner’s... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

generalized toolkits to business users or get bogged down in custom software consulting engagements that solve nonrepeatable use cases. There are more opportunities today for entrepreneurs to focus on solving vertical problems than... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

cause or not. Each situation is different. It may depend on the nature of the CEO’s shortcomings and the terms of their contract. Was the problem merely poor company performance (rarely regarded as “cause”), poor judgment (a borderline... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

passed white rates in mid-1942. It stayed that way until the US ended voluntary enlistment, the authors write. "Our point is not that African Americans did not participate. In fact, they did volunteer—and did so at high rates." A large... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

our courses, you will have access to the materials in every prior module as you progress through the rest of the course (and, for CORe, as you prepare for the final exam). Access to course materials and the course platform ends 60 days... View Details

22 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

product claim strategy, risking the question of side effects in favor of attempting to convince men that they had a problem and Propecia was the answer. Wosinska said that even before marketing began, the drug had high ambient... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

inspectors find safety problems is not surprising," says Michael W. Toffel, an associate professor and the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. At the same time, when problems are resolved,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

Moss begins this class, but for the next 90 minutes, we are in the critical period of the mid-1780s, between the end of the American Revolution and the election of the country’s first president, when the nation was governed by the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Bryan Stromer

which path and career seems most exciting to me. What is your most memorable classroom moment? This semester I am taking Business, Government, & the International Economy (BGIE), where each class session focuses on the economic and political environments of a different... View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

annual salary offer of $115,000 is unfair on its own. They might be perfectly happy with that salary if it weren't for the information that it's below average." And it's not just a matter of money. In several studies of social comparison... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

every problem they solved correctly. The participants graded their own papers and reported their own performance, meaning they had both an opportunity and an incentive to cheat. Unbeknownst to the participants, the researchers were able... View Details