Confirmation - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

low, it will be more difficult to implement anything-policies, practices, and eventually strategies of which they are a part? This appeared to be confirmed by data that I collected for my most recent book. For example, only 30 percent to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

to find out if your changes are working.” Believing in the process In the book, Beer describes how the carefully designed strategic fitness process has helped companies bring their problems into the light. It has been applied by numerous CEOs, and research has View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

and family experiences, Luca is dedicated to advancing brain-related disease research. As a fellow, Luca will be focusing on confirming Ilios Tx’s mechanism of action through in-vitro experiments and animal models. Luca previously served... View Details

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FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni

date and time at least 3.5 hours in the future, you will be able to make the adjustment on your own. Visit the program webpage and click the "register now" button. Locate the confirmation tab and click the "modify" button in order to... View Details

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

implementing carbon capture at Amager Bakke. Based on a study conducted in 2021, the potential CO2 savings through carbon capture are estimated at 500,000 tons per year. Over the next year, a demo installation will be built to confirm the... View Details

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

it” "In the mind of someone who thinks of tipping as something that implies better future service, tipping and bribery are closer together," Torfason says. The researchers confirmed this intuition in a lab experiment. They... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

patient-distance-to-facility instrument, we document that bankruptcies harm patients through increases in hospitalizations, physical restraints, and bedsores. Finally, we employ a randomized survey experiment of nursing home staff to View Details

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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

confirm file "`tmpdir'" // check if tmpdir exists if _rc { // if tmpdir does not exist... !mkdir -p "`tmpdir'" // create it! } This will ensure that the temporary location and folder path exists as Stata is launching. This will help with... View Details

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

research, insights, and innovations that shape the business world. Upcoming confirmed regional events / YA regional events Join us at HBS Alumni Regional events to connect, learn, and grow with fellow alumni in your area! Sign up to stay... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Apply to CORe for Credit Starting Oct 28 17 Weeks + Exam $2,650 + applicable international taxes Exam Period : 3/30/26 – 4/3/2026 Application deadline October 20 View weekly calendar Apply to CORe Free application No documentation required View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

softer, characteristics you seek in this person. If you already have someone in mind, try to stay objective and not write this JD to ensure they can fill the role (an act of confirmation bias). Use this as your guide as you meet... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

appear to be related to excuse-driven motives. A new study confirms that individuals often avoid information to make themselves feel better about the decisions they make. But the results also suggest that a variety of other factors can... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

it. Q: You mention Scott Cook. He once told me that on his first day as cofounder of his new two-person company, Intuit, he started by writing an employee handbook. Your work would seem to confirm the rightness of that decision, that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

already confirmed its name. "Windows 7 brought us back to the notion of sequential indicators," Ofek says. "Microsoft learned that when you break from sequential names, people often overemphasize the risk of significant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we... View Details

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Events - Business History

codify best practices, the workshop focused on the question of whether digital techniques simply aid us in confirming our hypotheses with more or better visualized data or whether digital approaches can enable us to ask radical new... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

percent between 1990 and 2000. (We confirmed our findings in the five years following the study period.) Both companies' performance was directly linked to whether or not they adhered to the 4+2 formula. In the strategy practice, for... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

09 Jun 2015
News

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au “I remember Dean Kim Clark greeting us on my first day at HBS,” says Yat-Pang Au. “He said, ‘This will be a transformative experience in your life.’ Fifteen years later, I can confirm the truth of that... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

compensation they received for the previous 12 months; Your employment start date; Confirmation from the hiring organization acknowledging receipt of your offer acceptance. A dated letter on the organization’s official letterhead or a... View Details

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