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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
there was empty land for 25 years. We rented the land and created a temporary arena and a coffee shop, a studio, and a car park. It was like a complex. And that changed the people’s mindset in Mito, because that empty land right in the...
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Dan Morrell
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
remote monitoring service for cardiac device patients, which hit the market well before 2010 (the FDA approved it in January 2002). It was only by thinking in terms of "reinvention," says George, that this could have been...
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by Paul Michelman
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “The psychology is powerful. That feeling of being in first or last place affects our thoughts, emotions, and behavior.” Although the research focuses on aircraft design, its findings View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
institutional agility are also priorities. In addition, Wolfensohn wants to create a "Knowledge Bank," to take advantage of new technology as a repository of the Bank's decades of accumulated data, information, and know-how that could...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care services as products that View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
reasons—so why not jump-start that mindset by throwing your body ahead of your inhibitions? Looking goofy doesn’t matter. Your ideas matter. Action matters. Investing in change matters. Plus, swinging from the ceiling with professional...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
eighteen94 was conceived as a platform for giving Kellogg access to the kinds of skills, products, and ingredients that could help drive future growth. It was also a vehicle for changing mindsets and culture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
purpose; managers need to answer not just what the team should or could be doing, but also why doing so matters. All of us, particularly the younger generations in the workforce, want to be in organizations where we can make a difference....
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
than 0.25 stars away at the end of our sample period. Moreover, the deviation grows significantly as a restaurant accumulates reviews over time. This suggests that large gains could be made by implementing optimal ratings, especially as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could...
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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
work? A: Many firms adopt what we call a "production outsourcing" mindset to collaboration. This is typified by a focus on lowering cost at the expense of other potentially more valuable benefits. These firms view collaboration as a form...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
schools and universities are closed this week. Shutting down to help stop community spread Across the country, at least 21 million kids, now home from school. Students are often not at high risk, but their parents, grandparents and the community at large View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
wrong, especially given that many of the early FBC missions had been tremendously successful. And I was convinced that the answers could help inform a wide variety of situations in which organizations were attempting the type of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics...
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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote individuals' ability to justify their behavior, which, in turn, leads to unethical behavior. In five studies, we show that participants with creative personalities tended to cheat...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
such behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew its consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
chapter studies how experimental policy design can be a cost-effective way to attain program goals. The last chapter examines geographic disparities in innovation, joblessness, and technological dynamism and studies how reallocation of grants and geographically...
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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
enables downloads to be faster. While this "direct effect" seems obvious, our analysis also takes into account the following "indirect effect": The behavior of peers may vary when infrastructure improves. As infrastructure improves and downloads...
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