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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
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movement. “When we feel powerless or subordinate, we constrict our posture, tightening, wrapping, and making ourselves smaller,” she writes. Cuddy is among a growing number of HBS faculty using scientific methods and behavioral science to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
In the third study, 194 participants each watched only one pitch video. As in the previous study, the researchers manipulated the gender of the voiceover each time. Additionally, they accompanied each video with a photo, which varied... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
what makes these CEOs tick and how they manage their most valuable assets. Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science by Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959) (Springer) This in-depth guide to effective View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
disciplinary boundaries. The Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research Conference in Information Sciences and Technology (DESRIST) was an important milepost in their evolution. It provided a forum where students and leading View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't really know as much about how... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
MBA offered me the exciting opportunity to re-engage with the scientifically rich university ecosystem and learn new skills. I matriculated a year before the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences was offered, so I decided to apply... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
sector has lost money during this period, new research shows. What went wrong? Professor Gary Pisano provides answers in the new book Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech, in which he argues that the very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
must, if we want to be free. How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure & Resilience by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) Audible Studios Pasricha combines his personal story of failure and resilience with the latest scientific View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
art processes better models for knowledge work than more rules-based, scientific processes. The key to understanding these similarities is something we call cheap and rapid iteration. The Cost Of Getting It Right The cost of iteration—the... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
stimulates the body’s circadian rhythms, cuing the production of cortisol during the day to keep you alert and melatonin at night to ready your body for rest. “It’s based on about 15 years of scientific View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
over 33 million reviews for local businesses, with some sporting more than 1,000 reviews each. How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
to search, he firmly believes that the more search technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures for diseases and a host of other societal problems. In brief, search can change the world—and for the better. Born in Paris,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
overly narrow goals. Consider the experience of Airbnb, which ran experiments to evaluate booking strategies but ignored the potential for discrimination. After research by Luca and colleagues found evidence of widespread discrimination... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
able to solve these problems, it's many of the people in this room." Much of the conference comprised presentations of scientifically rigorous research papers that provided clear implications for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
for basic scientific research through newly created agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and through existing agencies such as the Department of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
studies—at HBS and elsewhere—the process involved all of the above experiences, and more. Yet, all panelists agreed, the benefits of being studied far outweighed any fleeting moments of trepidation. The self-reflection that such research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace