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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
interest to me. Fortunately, I got in." HBS provided the frame of reference that Maddy was lacking. "I have applied quite a lot of what I learned to my career," she says. "For me, the discipline that the case-study methodology teaches has...
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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
both requires and depletes self-control resources (Study 4). Taken together, our findings help to explain how otherwise ethical individuals predictably engage in unethical behavior. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Liberalism, 1945–1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Galambos, Louis, and Barbara Barrow Spence. The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880–1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Helfgott,...
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- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
page the ghost of that policy looks over the shoulder of the analyst, frames his assumptions, guides his pen." Overall, says Schumpeter, "the capitalist process is essentially a process of change of the type which is being...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
grateful to Professor Nick Retsinas for supervising me in my HKS Policy Analysis Exercise; and Professor Rebecca Henderson had a great way of framing ethical challenges and decisions in LCA. “But I’d have to say that Nori Lietz left the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
global system must become stable and equitable. The Future of Market Capitalism Market failures framed the Tuesday keynote presentation of University Professor Lawrence Summers, treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. Directing...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Framing the Future Cindy Song (MBA ’07) is in the business of building. As director of capital expansion and financial services at Habitat for Humanity International, Song manages a $34 million loan portfolio that funds construction and...
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- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
educational investment, or new technology. Fund solicitations providing only information without careful framing may be giving consumers an excuse to stay away because of what the product doesn’t have. “People exaggerate a charity’s...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton,...
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Jill Radsken
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
a tendency to draw on stereotypes to make decisions regarding patients; premature closure of problem diagnosis, possibly because of too heavy a reliance on first impressions; framing effects (biases or preconceptions caused by others’...
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by Jim Heskett
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
frame my longer-term thinking about key resource allocation of food, internet, healthcare, and more. Thomaz Galvao: I still do want to get back to Brazil and work in the public sector. In the first month I was able to perceive the...
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- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
expertise. But senior managers also must rethink their role in shaping strategic direction. Their main contribution has shifted from deciding the strategic content to framing the organizational context. That means creating a sense of...
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- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
confirm the influence of issue framing on public opinion and suggest that CEOs can sway public opinion, potentially to the same extent as prominent politicians. Moreover, Cook’s CEO activism increased consumer intentions to purchase Apple...
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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to the company's future. I argue that there may be a geographic solution to this dilemma. In such a solution, a fast-growing emerging market plays a central role in orchestrating a complete strategy for corporate entrepreneurship. I also argue that it is time to go...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
the socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
understanding the mechanism that can block a particular type of lung cancer cell, you're setting up a win that people can experience in a realistic time frame even though they'll have some setbacks along the way," she says....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
more oversight will be required in the future. Highlights of remarks made at the three sessions follow. AN ANXIOUS TIME: HBS faculty members Nicolas Retsinas, Clayton Rose, David Moss, and Robert Merton spoke about the financial crisis before an audience in Burden...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
international marketing? What kinds of analysis would you like to see so we can gain a fuller understanding of globalization? A: I see three kinds of contributions as forthcoming. First, taking a cross-functional or strategic approach to globalization is often...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
were proposed. Paula G commented that "Boards need to become more involved to protect the interests of the owners they must look outside to trusted advisors for compliance." Hughe said, "One way to get compliance is to View Details
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by James Heskett