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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
that an idea is not viable is a successful outcome—as long as that learning happened in a reasonably resource-efficient way. Prospect theory holds that people hate losses more than they enjoy equivalent gains. Add this to a culture in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Houghton once again called Weeks into his office, and the younger man braced himself to be demoted by his mentor. But Houghton, like Weeks, believes in learning from failure. “His basic theory was, ‘if you broke it, you fix it,’” says... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Reichheld, maintains that it isn't new market forces that make loyalty so elusive in the digital arena — it's faulty leadership. Applying his breakthrough loyalty theories to the digital economy, the author shows that the Web can actually... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
activated under certain conditions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-083.pdf Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-Expression Authors:Dan Cable, Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
can draw on the analytical skills they've developed to reason through an unfamiliar problem. In addition to the cases, we often assign readings to go with the cases. We use these readings to teach theory that the students can then apply... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
method bridges theory and practice, stretches and hones future business leaders through the most complex and challenging situations, and provides a sandbox to take risks, fail constructively, and learn. This prepares students to succeed... View Details
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Sarah Wolfolds
experience at the FED, but exploring the theory in organizational economics and the literature in Strategy has led to more specific ideas about how I could arbitrage these literatures. The HBS Experience The best thing about HBS is the... View Details
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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
business theory and education. Researchers can find the papers of seminal figures in the development of the case method at HBS, including Dean Wallace B. Donham and Professor C. Roland Christensen among others. Also contained in the HBS... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
Summing Up Jobs shape us in many ways, according to respondents to this month's column. For example, Sue Stewart said that " we become our jobs." Charlie Cullinane went further, saying that "Not only do we become our jobs while doing them but we keep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
Management Unit, said his research with Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) revealed unexpected theories about when and why companies merge or acquire other firms—and how... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
concrete evidence yet for other cultures, but the theory is not culture specific," he says. "We can't be definitive that this exact pattern of findings would play out in India, for instance, but the hypothesis was developed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 078, 057a A Growing Partnership... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
in three two-week modules. The first two modules take place in Johannesburg and the third in Boston. Between sessions, participants return to their workplaces to test out the new theories and practices they've learned. With participants... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610065. View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to diversify risk compared with outside... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response. This assessment reveals that our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne