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- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
John, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “They assume the Bachelor can only like one type of woman.” “When you like one lake, people infer that you hate cities” It turns out those fretful competitors... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
specifically his descriptions of the manifold research that's going on on happiness, did you yourself change your own definition of what happiness is? What did you what did you learn or change? Winfrey: What I learned is that days where... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a labeling scheme that is comprehensible to the average shopper. Here, we describe our method of developing a nutrition metric to fill this void. Methods—We asked leading nutrition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of research on the accuracy of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
networks—have in large part been borne out by her subsequent in-depth research. Though Higgins clarifies that her results so far on the biotech industry reflect the early stages of a long research project, she has already hit on some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
draw conclusions, based on scientific evidence, on what does or does not work to enhance organizational performance." Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance of the U.S. National View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50057 November 2015 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Done but Not Published: The Dissertation Journeys of Roy J. Lewicki and J. Keith Murnighan By: Kopelman, Shirli, Anne L.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance Authors:Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Scientific research and its translation into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
firms subject to monitoring, have incentives to downplay problems they observe in order to satisfy and retain their clients. This paper discusses the most important factors that our research and the research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the forthcoming book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Booking isn’t alone. Other companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix are also taking advantage of new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
Source: guvendemir Courage is the quality that distinguishes great leaders from excellent managers. Over the past decade, I have worked with and studied more than 200 CEOs of major companies through board service, consulting, and research... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
Authors:Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Cases of clear scientific misconduct have received significant media attention recently, but less flagrant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
individuals' publications. Using a unique electronic mail dataset, we find that researchers within the firm who author publications are much better connected to external (to the company) members of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists formulate and think about their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
experimentation. Uncertainty in this sense refers not to scientific questions about the coronavirus, but to what effect the virus will have on the future. What new realities will it generate? What will recovery look like? How long will it... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
the first researchers who began to study strategy through a rigorous, scientific process, using large empirical samples to look at regularities across industries and firms. "We were proud of it!" Montgomery... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel