Understanding Interests - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

love the product? Or investors who believed in the founder and her dream? Many entrepreneurs rightly want to protect the interests of these constituencies, Eisenmann says, and will strive to do so by keeping the startup alive—sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

are deliberately using a network strategy and discovering its potential to serve more people more effectively. "I'm interested in high performance networks and understanding how those networks were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

born with, which is curiosity—this genuine interest in discovery—and connecting with others, to understand and learn from them. Something that I learned by taking my husband to improv-comedy classes as a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

relativity. Those interests led to degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and even some opportunities to work on projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. But his life plans took a sharp turn on a Tuscany... View Details

08 May 2020
Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

alone. My decisions affect the well-being of individuals inside and outside my enterprise, today and tomorrow. Therefore, I promise that: I will manage my enterprise with loyalty and care, and will not advance my personal interests at the... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

physical activity: people's activity levels tend to converge to the lowest-performing members of their groups. This research adds to our understanding of the factors that determine when the behavior of others impacts our own behavior for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

does (not) mean we have the tools to understand what it is saying. Judgment is still crucial ." Debra Bordignon put an interesting twist on the issue, saying, "Where systems, tools, and artificial... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

auditing as a profession? Srinivasan: Auditors are in an interesting position. They rely on management teams in a lot of ways, but they also have an adversarial relationship. They verify that companies follow generally accepted accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

complete this required field. Email must be formatted correctly. Please complete all required fields. RSS feed 14 Nov 2024 Understanding Global Branding: What It Means for Your Business Lindsey Neugut Author Contributors tag Creating... View Details

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

Because of the considerable health risks involved in drug and alcohol use, resources are available to assist the community in understanding and dealing with drug and alcohol abuse problems. Help for students having alcohol or other drug... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

which physicians convene to discuss significant mistakes or unexpected deaths) as a forum for identifying, discussing, and learning from failures. This analysis can only be effective if people speak up openly about what they know and if others listen, enabling a new... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

apparent more quickly in today's knowledge and highly interactive society ." KB raised an interesting point with this question: "How many times (do) you have an answer as soon as you heard the main topic, suddenly your mind stopped... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

there was an untapped reservoir of students who wanted to engage either by deciding to become founders or joiners, or just to understand the space. Now, students can enter the i-lab at one of three stages we’ve mapped out—Explore, Test,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

Columbia who want help figuring this out. We developed an initial screening to understand where the opportunities are from the publisher side. And on the state side, we’ve initiated a series of conversations with state-level funders and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

spent with talented and interesting classmates and professors. “We all became really close,” she said, “and it was nice to know that there was a group of people who shared an interest in charting a path... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

interested in a more direct analysis of managers' decision making for these activities to gain a specifically context-based understanding of how these decisions are made as opposed to how managers say they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

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History - Entrepreneurship

promising prospects: the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. "The future of this nation lies with new ventures,” Rock said. “They supply the new ideas, the new technologies, the new jobs. HBS has long been at the forefront of View Details

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

platforms and crypto products. In the early days of the internet, a lot of the platforms and business models didn’t survive. What I’m really interested to see is which crypto projects come out of this “bear” market phase much stronger.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

Such conflicts—real or perceived—are most apparent when a faculty member is grading a student’s work, but they can also exist when there is the potential to grade future work, to vote on degrees, or to vote on disciplinary matters. Although the HBS Conflict of View Details

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

Understanding Variation across Local Communities Authors:Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana, and M. Tina Dacin Publication:In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and... View Details