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  • 08 Aug 2019
  • News

Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn?

    Adjusting to Remote Work During the Coronavirus Crisis

    Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, says that there are simple ways leaders can help their employees stay productive, focused, and psychologically healthy as they work from home during the current global global pandemic. The right... View Details

      First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People

      A strong handshake and assertive greeting may not be the best way to make a good first impression. New research suggests that people respond more positively to someone who comes across as trustworthy rather than confident.

      Social psychologist Amy... View Details
      • Program

      Strategic Negotiations

      promote resolution among parties whose interests and perceptions conflict Maximize value for the long term Design deals that create optimal value for all players at the bargaining table Manage the tension between creating value jointly and claiming value View Details
      • 01 Aug 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

      (iStockphoto/mikkelwilliam) Often the incentives we put in place to stimulate and reward performance produce unexpected behaviors. Causes vary from one individual to another, depending on what each of us values and what we are willing to... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 31 Jan 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship

      Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Jesper B. Sørensen
      • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
      • Case

      LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

      By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
      LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details
      Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model
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      • 28 Nov 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      B2B Branding: Does it Work?

      company's stakeholders. Efforts are focused on a single, global corporate brand rather than individual product brands. The payback on marketing expenditures is measured rigorously to the satisfaction of the hard-nosed engineers and... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
      • April 2023
      • Technical Note

      Venture Capital Firms: What Drives Success?

      By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
      With the rapid growth of venture capital (“VC”) in recent decades, we might wonder: who succeeds at VC and why? This is a complicated question, as many factors come into play. VC partnerships are comprised of individual investors with varying backgrounds, experiences,... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Success
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      • Article

      Tabulated Nonsense? Testing the Validity of the Ethnographic Atlas

      By: Duman Bahrami-Rad, Anke Becker and Joseph Henrich
      The Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock, 1967), an anthropological database, is widely used across the social sciences. The Atlas is a quantified and discretely categorized collection of information gleaned from ethnographies covering more than 1200... View Details
      Keywords: Ethnographic Atlas; Validation; Culture; Economic Anthropology
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      • October 6, 2020
      • Article

      Test Your Board's Readiness for the Post-COVID Era

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      Research suggests that well-run boards take the process of self-evaluation quite seriously, often using a combination of director surveys and personal interviews to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the board, its committees, and its individual members. As... View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Performance Evaluation
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      • Summer 2018
      • Book Review

      Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Leslie Berlin's book Troublemakers, is an engaging and insightful people-first exploration of the roots of Silicon Valley, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Berlin portrays seven individuals who played important roles at critical junctures in the... View Details
      Keywords: Silicon Valley; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; History; California
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      • June 2018 (Revised January 2019)
      • Background Note

      Visualizing Data & Effective Communication

      By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
      This note explores three specific ways an analyst can use visualization. Section 1 considers visualization to explore data. Section 2 discusses visualization as a tool for developing a deeper understanding of trends and phenomena encoded in the data. Section 3... View Details
      Keywords: Data Visualization; Graphical Guidelines; Charts; Analytics and Data Science; Communication
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      • September 2016
      • Case

      Designing Performance Metrics at GoDaddy

      By: C. Fritz Foley and Michael Lemm
      Scott Wagner has recently joined GoDaddy, a leading provider of cloud-based software and services that helped individuals and small businesses establish a web presence, in the dual role of chief operating officer and chief financial officer. One of his first tasks is... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Web Services Industry
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      • May 2006
      • Module Note

      Leading Culturally Diverse Teams

      By: Robin J. Ely
      Describes the Leading Culturally Diverse Teams module (eight class sessions), which teaches students the leadership perspectives and skills necessary to develop high-functioning, culturally diverse teams (teams diverse in, for example, race, ethnicity, gender,... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Diversity; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Perspective; Culture
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      • June 1999 (Revised August 2004)
      • Case

      NFL-Network Television Contracts, 1998-2005, The

      By: Stephen A. Greyser
      The National Football League (NFL) is negotiating its next round of national television contracts with its broadcast and cable TV partners. The revenues from these contracts constitute a major source of income for the individual NFL teams. The case provides information... View Details
      Keywords: History; Rights; Contracts; Business Earnings; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Budgets and Budgeting; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      • May 1994 (Revised January 1995)
      • Case

      Warner Cable (A) and (B) (Condensed)

      The new general manager of Warner Cable's Medford, Massachusetts complex faces a number of turnaround challenges in 1985, including service deficiencies, customer complaints, high turnover, and low employee morale. By 1988 he has turned the situation around, but some... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Change Management; Performance Improvement; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts
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        Test Your Board’s Readiness for the Post-Covid Era

        Research suggests that well-run boards take the process of self-evaluation quite seriously, often using a combination of director surveys and personal interviews to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the board, its committees, and its individual members.... View Details
        • 23 Aug 2016
        • Working Paper Summaries

        CEO Personality and Firm Policies

        Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina; Financial Services
        • 06 Sep 2021
        • News

        Automated Hiring Software Is Mistakenly Rejecting Millions of Viable Job Candidates