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- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
her professor couldn’t come up with a design that worked with such low wind speeds. Shodiya was intrigued by the world of research despite those setbacks. But she decided to switch gears and gain experience in the air transportation... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Washington, DC 1975 Earns BA, Economics and History, Swarthmore College 1977 Earns MBA 1977 Receives Fulbright Scholarship to the Philippines 1979 Founds Research Counsel,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
downsizing versus price increases from two perspectives: how manufacturers and the public think consumers behave, and how consumers actually behave. What did your research show? A: The research Jay Koehler... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
said, "I'd rather use the word fulfillment. Success is a metric; you never have enough. But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals are the only judges." HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash moderated the session.... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1625503 iPosture: The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects Our Behavior By: Bos, Maarten W., and Amy J.C. Cuddy Abstract—We examined whether incidental body posture, prompted by working on electronic devices of different sizes, affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
participated in several major research initiatives during the 1980s and early 1990s, before becoming Dean of the School in 1995. And even as Dean, he continued to pursue research until 2005, when he left... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
purchasing agent may be motivated by monthly targets and pennies ground out of suppliers. To succeed, the supplier may need to create a more promising set-up with more sympathetic parties involved in the negotiation. When talks stall,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
innovation for any industry and any issue. More broadly, with the 2021 opening of the Science and Engineering Complex across the street from HBS and the first phase of the nearby Enterprise Research Campus breaking View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
distributing them on the ground with trucks and staff, all the while coordinating with other NGOs, governments, UN agencies, and the military. Despite all that, the organization alone has limited influence over what happens in the country... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
to being good stewards of the land, they wanted to produce syrup that would set a new industry standard in quality and flavor. Turner began researching everything he could find about sugaring and found a willing mentor in Mike Farrell,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
what they should decide. Paper: http://hbr.org/2012/12/how-much-is-sweat-equity-worth/ar/1 When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams Authors:Polzer, Jeff, and Lisa Kwan Publication:In View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
editor-in-chief of HBS Working Knowledge. Image: adamkaz Related Reading: Why People Don’t Vote—and How a Good Ground Game Helps Research Paper: Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
it, we can all learn about the potential merits and difficulties of reparations.” In addition to writing the case with independent researcher Suzanne Antoniou and HBS research associate Leanne Fan, Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the city an opportunity to rebuild its low-performing public school system. What led you to do this research and teach case studies on this subject? Stacey Childress: I developed and teach an MBA elective course at HBS called... View Details