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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
"It is the combination of theory and common sense that makes a great leader and decision maker." Jeremy Pooley asked, "Could it be that planning and testing helps us better understand the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Square Labs “All of the panelists believe that the disruption that we’re seeing with technology, particularly in and around AI, will continue. One says our lives will look totally different—the way we do almost everything will be... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
for the 2004 Brattle Prize for Outstanding Paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance for his paper with Jeffrey Wurgler. "A Catering Theory of Dividends." (June... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
risk and return are assessed in different parts of the brain, thereby questioning theories regarding expected utility on which a great deal of decision View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ahmed Farag
I am torn between two worlds. Born in a place where people are forgotten, I often contemplate how I can serve as a beacon of hope. Yet, I have escaped to another world, where I can propel my own happiness. Alone in the darkness, the... View Details
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Research Summaries
Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success. His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.
Social Capital... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and any changes in people’s connectedness to their communities. On the impact side, we know what the buckets are; the work now is to connect our theories of change and the way that we make investments in... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
Clayton M. Christensen Clayton M. Christensen Clayton M. Christensen (MBA 1979, DBA 1992), Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
stumbled across the Firm’s Sustainability Practice during my rotation in New York, and it was “love at first sight” – I realized that climate change has become top of mind for many business leaders, and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
were more productive. "There are some industries where a CEO really needs to be outside, so we don't need to be proscriptive, but if you were taking these results literally it would tell you that since a CEO's time is constrained, he should be View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
The Case Centre in 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19. 2018 Bharat N. Anand : Winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal for the Best Book in the Business Theory category for The Content... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
short-term performance is at stake, (2) the fear of disruption resulting from "thinking differently and deeply," (3) the potential psychological cost of changing one's View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Research Summary
Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Info The World Economic Forum deems mental health deterioration as an imminent risk for humanity in the next two years. Talk of issues of mental health and work, once taboo, is now constant. In this session,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Josh Bronstein
When I swung from the trapeze for the first time at sleep-away camp in the summer of 1993, I decided I wanted to join the circus. I was excited by the prospect of someone actually paying me to have fun. So... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and more intricate concepts such as wave-particle duality, wave functions, the superposition principle, quantum tunneling, the quantum harmonic oscillator, the Dirac equation, and Feynman diagrams. It also covers the physics of the Higgs... View Details