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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

today becomes possible for us to negotiate or achieve in the future. Challenge received wisdom and implicit theories regarding the causes of conflict and the prospect of its resolution. Reflect on our own place in the world, as well as... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

80240ad2c5f43acc66f13dc5e89928ff There’s not much room for theory when Patrick Kuhse talks about business ethics. A successful stockbroker and entrepreneur, Kuhse became an international fugitive after being charged in 1994 with 32 counts... View Details
Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

returns. Digital advertising provides marketers with renewed opportunity to measure advertising effectiveness. Economists draw on both existing theories of advertising and the tools of econometrics to test and evaluate advertising... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

way we will build a new theory about leaders that, even as it acknowledges that most individual leaders have little impact, identifies the relatively rare circumstances when a single individual in the right place, at the right time, can... View Details
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

heavy backpack on these behaviors. Our studies also examined the mechanism behind these effects and demonstrated that participants processed guilty stimuli more fluently when experiencing physical weight. Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

critiques of our market system, the course dives deep into some of the foundational theories of capitalism (John Locke’s Second Treatise; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto) and the capitalist state (F.A.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

one that has little chance of getting better with the current theories in place,” Martin writes. Clearly, maximizing shareholder value has not worked and needs to be replaced. The problem as Martin sees it is that CEOs game the system to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Books

theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • June 2012
  • Article

Short Termism: Don't Blame the Investors

By: Francois Brochet, George Serafeim and Maria Loumioti
The article presents research on executives and corporation investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Business Earnings; Managerial Roles; Investment; Agency Theory; Communication Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • August 2012
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Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: A Resource-based View of Team Performance

By: H. K. Gardner, F. Gino and B. Staats
In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order to perform effectively. Yet, many teams fail to do so. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Effectiveness; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Theory; Framework; Management Practices and Processes; Research
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Is Business School Right for You?

Bring your particular passion to Peek Weekend and our professors will bring theirs – helping you better understand the challenges that today’s leaders across diverse fields face and how to use the theories and tools of management to... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

Shawn Cole—plus he had an existing network of friends and colleagues in the Boston area—so he felt confident that HBS would be the right fit. “The Business Economics program struck the right balance between background economic theory and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Research Brief: The Power of Could

often do so by employing the lesson revealed by Zhang and her coauthors: The path to good might begin by embracing could.—Francis Storrs “Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight,” by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino, and... View Details
  • 25 Nov 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making

Keywords: by Roy Y.J. Chua & Xi Zou; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

Summing Up What's rational in the world of management? Judging from replies to the question, "Are you ready to manage in an irrational world?," respondents to this column are ready. But they also conclude that the question is much more complex and subtle than... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • April 2012
  • Article

The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research

By: Ruth Wageman, Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen
The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly in the last decade. Much of the published work in teams research, however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Research; Change Management; Leadership; Standards; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Civil Society or Community
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  • 15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

their customers.” “Our goal is to give students an experience that bridges the intersection of theory and practice,” says Shih. “That was possible,” Kirby adds, “because of the great support we received from the HBS team at the Harvard... View Details