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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
mistake I’ve seen others make is to be dishonest or subtly disparaging of other job market candidates. Accounting academia is a small, friendly field. Everyone knows everyone else. If a candidate says something mean or untrue at one... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
March 2006; and "Aggregation, Precision, and Contracting with a Long-Horizon Agent in a Multi-Task Setting," a HBS Working Paper from April 2006. Ann Cullen: How did you get interested in this topic? Romana Autrey: Career concerns affect every industry, even... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercialization gap left by companies, “universities will have to be very careful that they don’t shift too far into doing the commercial work,” Roche says. “Because what academia has afforded for so many decades is the freedom to do... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
consider potential partnerships with, say, Apple Wallet. Price setting. At Uber, a team of economists work on how to design and fine-tune its surge pricing system, which changes fares in real time and increases prices during peak hours. Building a partnership between... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
help to become part of the commercial food system. In this book, Ray Goldberg interviews the change makers of today's food system: leaders and constructive critics in government, private industry, nonprofits, and academia who provide a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
will come only from a systemic, well-choreographed approach to creating positive change. This insight was clear at a symposium of leaders from business, labor, government, the media, and academia that convened at Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of business, government, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
initiatives." As the research process progresses, outside factors continue to make their mark, including scientific advances licensed from academia and even product teams acquired and brought in from other firms. "All... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
How can Latin American business and academia work together to stimulate more case writing in the region? In a set of frank discussions, conference participants—academics and business executives together—broke into small groups organized... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
doing. The goal is not to turn around quick policy ideas, but to generate important and long-lasting research. Often, though, good policy ideas turn out to be a happy by-product.” Those kinds of contributions can help ensure that academic research on policy advances... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
"aware that business practices changed faster than academia could hope to capture in any sort of grand theoretical system," Cruikshank observes, "HBS professors tended to talk in terms of 'currently useful... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
received the simple prompt, 37.1 obtained a flu shot at the firm's on-site clinic—an increase of 4.2 percentage points over those who received a standard, no-prompt reminder. Beshears held the research as case in point that field research can be mutually beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
between the goals of academia and the goals of a corporation in utilizing neuroscience. For Karmarkar, her work falls into the category of decision neuroscience, which is the study of what our brains do as we make choices. She harbors no... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
factored in." Walter P. Blass noted that in academia the search is usually run by a search committee, but the nomination needs the approval of the next level to that position. "That way, you get input from affected... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
value-based care agenda to life at MD Anderson, with hopes that it eventually will be standard operating procedure in American health care. Since joining the HBS faculty part-time, Feeley has commuted between Boston and Houston every other week, serving as a liaison... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Central University, and at the apogee of research, the Academia Sinica), accompanied by a creative set of private colleges and universities (Yenching University, St. John's University, and Peking Union Medical College, to name but a few).... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
must change the way it supports basic and applied scientific research to promote the broad collaboration with business and academia needed to tackle society's big problems. Second, corporate management practices and governance structures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
American-based scholars with European ties, we decided to examine the impact of Organization Studies in North American academia with the objective of understanding what, if anything, makes some Organization Studies' articles more likely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
sector. Pisano proposes more vertical integration, fewer but closer long-term collaborations, and quasi-public corporations. In academia he calls for more cross-disciplinary research and for universities to strive to disseminate new... View Details