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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
will help customers be more helpful The rapid spread of COVID-19 reminds us how our wellbeing is interconnected, and the flurry of heartwarming responses people have exhibited in the face of this crisis reveals our tremendous willingness and ability to help one... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
higher education and beyond can realize change by working with, not against, change-makers even when board members and community leaders stand in opposition. Bold collaboration, significant due diligence, and persistence are integral to... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
architecture in their own organizations. Slides Improving Performance with Operational Transparency Professor Ryan W. Buell (MBA 2007, DBA 2012) + More Info – Less Info Conventional wisdom suggests that the more contact an operation has... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
possibility that " managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change" (proposed by those who engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
become a "participative sport" for the senior management team, rather than a "spectator sport." Barton was persistent in making the senior management play IT as a participative sport. Davies wasn't. In the structure of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous doctors, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. Studying these institutions over... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-021.pdf What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Software Tools - Research Computing Services
there are module files in other locations you might wish to use, the module use command can add those locations to the modules files path: $ module use /path/to/personal/modulefiles This addition does not persist across logins; add this... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
Kakani and Columbia University professor Adam Sacarny, focuses on another explanation: differences in hospital quality. Hospital care improves, but gaps persist The researchers analyzed about 20 years of Medicare data, reflecting the... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
1990s to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem that could harness its business-minded immigrant population. Strategic investment had given rise to creative events and spaces, like the international Art Basel fair in Miami, new performing... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
imposter syndrome—feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. These individuals feel chronic self-doubt and a sense of inadequacy that overrode any feelings of success or external proof of their competence. When these... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community. Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research from the Boston College Center for Work and Family and Purdue University Center for Families for "Explaining... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
VCs who suggested she didn’t have the right skill set to lead a logistics- and operations-heavy business. One advised Emara to switch roles with her male COO cofounder, at least while she was fundraising. “There were a lot of issues on the investor side, and, honestly,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
dollars in lost sales and customer goodwill. Ton is currently working with a nationwide chain to estimate the magnitude of this problem and identify its drivers. "We have found large and systematic variation in performance in 250 stores... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
rates heading? Inflation, Savings, and the Capex Revolution Professor Luis Viceira No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Interest rates have experienced a sharp upturn in the last 24 months in the US and other developed economies, after almost four... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
what are the key drivers of technology; and what are the macroeconomic consequences of technology. We prioritize in our discussion unified approaches to these three questions that are based on direct measures of technology. 2006 pub Dysfunction in the Boardroom:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Their results appear in the August 2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many organizations have a bias toward solving sticky problems through collaboration, either in person or virtually. The more eyes on a problem, the theory goes, the better the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
drives innovation. Persist — most people give up too soon. Love many things, so you’ll want to master them or make them better.). After Thomke’s class, Randal performed to an overflow crowd of HBS students... View Details