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01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us

idea exploded in popular culture; somewhere along the way, it became known as the “imposter syndrome,” which incorrectly suggests it’s a personal pathology. Studies suggest that as many as 70 percent of us might experience this phenomenon, and that it is especially... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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General Management - Faculty & Research

parents and their foreign affiliates. We also document the prevalence of intrafirm trade: more than half (three-quarters) of affiliates worldwide (in North America) export to or import from their U.S. parent. Our findings provide strong... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

18 May 2012
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Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin

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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu

The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods

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Read Now

28 Jun 2012
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Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

to jumpstart entrepreneurial leadership in established firms, and in understanding how an entrepreneurial leader continues to lead innovation throughout the lifecycle of a business—from startup through scale-up. “Today, I often see that the creativity and innovation... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

27 Feb 2023
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How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

control of store owners: Employees showing up late—or sometimes not at all. Managers are aware that employee lateness and absenteeism is prevalent and expensive to their operations. Now, researchers at Harvard Business School have gone a... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

10 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

prevalent in all kinds of businesses, and the use of non-cash methods, such as paying on tablets or apps, became more prevalent. That has led to situations in which “price framing” can nudge consumers into tipping in unaccustomed... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

30 Sep 2019
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

2018 arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks after employees called the police to complain they were trespassing, even though they were just waiting for a business acquaintance. “Given the racist rhetoric and vitriol in the air right now, racism is more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Apr 2013
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Managers and Market Capitalism

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna

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Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details

29 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

self-interest and, often, without regard for moral principles—is silent during the planning stage of a decision but typically emerges and dominates at the time of the decision. Not only will your self-interested motives be more prevalent... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

05 Jul 2012
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Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

taught? As Dan Wallace, a graduate of Harvard Business School, points out " none of this was addressed when I was a student there trust would be more prevalent if our best schools of leadership taught it." Finally, Richant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2020
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Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective

By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones

This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India

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Purchase

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

his colleagues leveraged an experiment conducted in 2015 on LinkedIn’s PYMK algorithm that randomly varied the prevalence of weak ties for 4 million members. During the experiment, 19 million new connections were formed and they led to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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By: Ayelet Israeli

Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data... View Details

Keywords: Channel Management; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Online Marketing; E-commerce; Analytics; Econometrics; Field Experiments; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Value Of Data

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