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02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

in" to a set of ideas on a broad scale, why should we expect a leader to be able to address the downside of buy in, which some have come to regard as "groupthink," the creation of a dynamic in which members of a team only... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2018
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Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti

After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and... View Details

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New Results from the HBS Alumni Survey: Life and Leadership After HBS

Professor Robin Ely will share survey findings about the lives and careers of alumni, including how they negotiate work and family, how alumni of different genders and racial groups experience their careers and family relationships, and how alumni view barriers to... View Details

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Your Career Resources - MBA

toward your professional development post-HBS. A Dedicated Team CPD is committed to helping both students and alumni realize their unique career visions. With more than 30 career education professionals on the team, we View Details

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

hardly any talk. To that end, a team of passive followers benefits from an extraverted leader. "Often the leaders end up doing a lot of the talking, and not listening to any of the ideas that the followers are trying to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

units—Development & Finance, Product Development, or Asset Management. Our full-time MBAs primarily work within one discipline that matches their past experience and interests to gain subject matter expertise in a certain function of... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

30 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open source software users who snagged outside sponsors in 2019, it seemed to View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the developing world has become a center... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2011
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Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two... View Details

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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Supplement Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author Health Care... View Details

02 Sep 2008
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Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

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Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

to focus on founding a new venture, working at a startup, or pursuing a role in venture capital. Details for Students (login required) Details for Hiring Organizations The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to realize their... View Details

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

Teresa M. Amabile's research centers on how the work environment can influence the motivation, creativity, and performance of individuals and teams. A recent study focused on the influence of team leaders on... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

28 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the View Details

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

During her three years at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Yoonjin Min, MBA 2020, made the shift from serving as a generalist to a specialist in healthcare strategy. “I liked working on projects where success wasn’t just profit-oriented,”... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

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