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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Angie [Hicks, MBA 2000] herself. To their credit, the students stuck to their guns." Having other investors you trust critique your stock pitches can be important not only for investment managers, but also for individual investors, says Cohen. "One great... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally applicable was a matter of discussion... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
do with problem solving—either avoiding solving problems that crop up in the team or the project, or creating problems. NB: What is a vital lesson that leaders can take away from this? Amabile: I believe it's important for leaders to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
"It makes you think beyond your own actions to how everyone is solving a problem," says Stafford. "You accumulate experience alongside the theory. Getting those lessons together, I suspect, is very valuable." View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd have a View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
book was actually in the works for almost three years before COVID. Having been deeply involved in the issues of virtual work and global work, I was convinced that people needed an action guide that they could use as part of a team, or even as an individual, to really... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
diversity as important capture benefits from it. While those that don’t, don’t. The researchers outline three main reasons why opinions about the value of diversity matter so much to the actual value it brings. And these may provide View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
space, or who are just smart business people that want to be part of a growing industry.” Related Reading: Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX) Leadership Lessons From Outer Space Mission to Mars: It Really... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
does reveal is that their analysis pointed to “a complete lack of understanding” of the actual physics involved with football by those who make their living off the game. The lessons to be learned from that stretch beyond Deflategate. “I... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
groceries and stocks have to do with public health? Quelch believes, for one thing, the market for public health could learn an important lesson from these other markets: There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution, largely... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
company-no matter how large-was immune to failure, and that the lessons he was learning from startups could be applied far more broadly. "I realized it wasn't just small companies who were fragile, and whose leaders were facing high... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from services to new employees.... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
statistical analysis, there are relatively few projects (approximately 300 per year, but only 40 to 50 large ones costing more than $500 million). These projects tend to have long lives and many idiosyncratic features. As a result, statistical tests are weak and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
had stuck with him, including the best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA)—which essentially entails outlining a fallback plan if things go awry and offering a reality check for people caught up in anger. It was a particularly relevant View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
innovations before bringing them to market. The general lesson for any company that depends on distribution partners: Be wary. As Zhu told the audience at Future Assembly: “Before you build your business model around platforms, you need... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
lesson in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The risk-management tools and safety margins needed to manage normal disruptions in the market were completely inadequate to handle a major catastrophe. We got rid of the buffers against... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. Lessons To Be Learned There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though... View Details