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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,...
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Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
every hand in the class went up. Needless to say, the faculty had never seen such eagerness to participate before. Some people began playing multiple cards. To rectify this unfairness, we brought market discipline to the fore and started...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
outcomes salient (Burns & Corpus, 2004), the bias did not emerge when the presentation did not draw attention to recent outcomes. Fixing Health Care on the Front Lines Author:Richard M.J. Bohmer Publication:Harvard Business Review 88,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
SUMMING UP: Does It Matter If China Assumes Global Trade Leadership? There are a variety of reasons why China is not a threat to the global trade leadership of the United States. They include demographic disadvantages, an unwillingness to make Chinese View Details
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by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
our choice(s) in life." Henry Kwok commented, "The field of neuroscience and brain scanning will only get more advanced, and thus we can expect better reading However, the job of managing and leading will be evolving in a fast changing View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups and downs of refining their...
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Julia Hanna
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
Introduction to AI Essentials for Business ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! AI Essentials for Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts October 16th...
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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard View Details
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All Industries
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive...
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- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
old lines of business and, if economies of scope are unavailable, to simply reproduce entrant behavior by creating a "firm within a firm." There are two broad streams of explanation for incumbent failure in these circumstances....
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
businesses should set aside time to ask themselves what widely held assumptions—in their lives, organization, or industry—they might benefit from challenging or discarding. “The impact of this simple exercise,” he says, “can be...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
their own academic goals. “I wrote my admission essay about my time at the Treasury, and the need for people who speak the languages of public service and finance,” she says. “I wanted to have credibility and background in both government and View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
product and service experiences that exceed customer expectations and the offerings of competitors. What's the secret? Success in business as well as magic has less to do with clever marketing and more to do...
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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
The Year in Review The Year in Review Enhancing the innovation ecosystem. Extending the impact and reach of the School through a powerful digital learning platform. Training future leaders of technology ventures. Engaging alumni around the world through The Harvard...
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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
too little on the actual behavior of mere humans, which is beset by "bounded rationality" (limits on the complexity we can deal with) as well as our limited self-control (inability to resist "temptation"). They advocate the use of "choice...
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by Jim Heskett
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the science, who the competition is,...
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- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
the formation of funds to the investment of the funds in operating companies to the liquidation of those investments. A wide range of topics is considered, including the structure of venture partnerships, how venture capitalists oversee firms, how they are compensated,...
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Amy E. Dean