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03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

loses a star employee because it refuses to raise her salary to match a competitor's higher offer, the firm is not necessarily behaving irrationally; it may instead be constrained by an HR policy that restricts it from creating huge pay... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2007-2009. When asked about the 19 potential factors that contributed to the crisis (see survey text), respondents identified the following as the top 5: financial engineering, mortgage lenders not paying attention to risk because they... View Details

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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Technology Three waves of IT-driven competition have radically reshaped competition in the past 50 years. The first wave of IT, during the 1960s and 1970s, automated individual activities in the value chain, ranging from order processing and bill View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will force us to price the priceless– our lives and what we’re willing to pay for them. The Business of Artificial Intelligence Steam, combustion engines, PCs. Each of these disruptive forces not only upended entire industries but sent... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

concentrate on the human element, calling people rather than e-mailing them, talking about their family as well as their business. We also set our salaries higher than our competitors, and then add to them with pay based on performance.... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

to workers, who were expected to pay for their own English classes and learn during off-hours. Neeley, who drafted some best practices that the company began to implement, says Rakuten has quickly moved to make substantial changes,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

stakeholders and good workplace practices. They are better prepared to deal with and mitigate crisis, like the current coronavirus pandemic. If there were ever a time to “think outside the building” and be more aware of the wider system, it’s now. Operating in silos... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

learners, you cannot audit our courses. Will I need to purchase any additional materials? Your program fee covers all course materials. All of the materials for our courses are accessed on the course platform. You will not be required to purchase anything else or View Details

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

the company. The program expanded beyond India to Germany, the United States, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, and Ireland. So far about 100 people have been hired for jobs including software developer or tester, business analyst, and graphic designer, and View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

case study, “The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen,” I use the lens of this crisis to study how businesses should fulfill their social obligations. In this talk, we will explore how the board of... View Details

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

paper doesn’t explicitly examine why government-funded patents are so important, Yao speculates that government institutions, relative to companies, tend to fund broader scientific initiatives that are more likely to lead to more novel discoveries. Government funding... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

benefits. Now, they say, we are reaping the consequences of that misapprehension. Employees left their jobs at alarming rates over the past year as they reassessed their lives in the face of COVID-19. Other workers are “quietly quitting,” resolving to do the bare... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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3.6 VA Benefits - MBA

Additionally, Harvard University will not prevent a student from attending classes or demand payment in advance for funds expected to be paid by the VA until at least 90 days post certification. If the VA fails to pay 90 days post... View Details

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

employed in the business—would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart's million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though that sounds. And since such a scenario would be unacceptable to Wal-Mart's shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

matters. If people lack that meaning, it's very hard for them to stay intrinsically motivated and creative. Many managers don't realize how necessary it is to help people understand the importance of their work. A status quo bias. Some upper managers View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Oct 2021
News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

donors,” says Rabah. “Thanks to scholarships, I will be able to choose a career that I find impactful and meaningful rather than seek a job just to pay off loans.” In turn, Rabah adds, “I hope donors take some credit for the positive... View Details

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

audit committees have improved their ability and willingness to monitor auditors. Investors can ask for and insist on strong audit committees of the board and pay more attention to what an audit committee does. Investors can also engage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

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