Multiple Audience Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

appointing a goodwill ambassador to communicate the culture and day-to-day life in Israel; and multiple measures to draw in more tourists (Jewish and non-Jewish) to the country. Taking stock of these efforts revealed a mixed picture at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2023
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The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

committees and the multi-year roadmap. With the right conditions, leaders can confront even complex organizational problems in one week. Frances Frei and Anne Morriss explain how in their book Move Fast and Fix Things. And don't forget... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Rapid technological change,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Aug 2020
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What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

naturally that way; I knew too much about the politics of Asia when I got shot down. I think there was a lot of damage done by optimists; other writers from other wars share that opinion. The problem is, some people believe what... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Dean Srikant Datar | About

he holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Datar’s research and course development have been in the areas of cost management and management control, strategy implementation, governance, and, more recently, management education, design thinking... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding... View Details

26 Aug 2002
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High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

costs of additional investments with several alternative uses of those resources. By encouraging the consideration of multiple options, leaders may help themselves and others recognize how over-commitment to an existing project may be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

Now at the helm of one of the foremost ballet companies in the United States, she confronted evolving demographics, shifting audience habits, and a financial environment that was becoming ever more challenging. Hui and the Ballet were... View Details

27 Dec 2010
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HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

From the problems posed by the Great Recession to the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, from the continuing economic growth of India and China to a cascade of entrepreneurial ventures, the year 2010 offered a wide assortment of... View Details

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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

high-dimensional decision spaces and the cold-start problem associated with designing new interventions. Furthermore, we develop a decision framework to identify key design features and customer segments for tailoring interventions. Using... View Details

02 Apr 2024
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Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

workers each, running on tight schedules with little room for error. Yet the average daily worker absenteeism rate was 11 percent, and for any particular production line, the absence rate was 20 percent or higher at least one out of 11 days. “You need to solve the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

we've been coming at the same problem from different angles using the same mission, the same philosophy, the same moral understanding of what we're trying to do, which is to, look, you don't get very much time in the world.” Brooks:... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

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MBA Experience - Global

what they learn to multiple contexts, in meaningful ways. Faculty bring important business issues and management problems from around the world into the classroom. Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details

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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

problems in the health care industry. It has been stuck in outdated management practices and payment models that made the problem progressively worse over the past 50 years despite tremendous advances in... View Details

07 Mar 2011
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Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

much funding," Ghosh says. "What funding does is cover up all the problems that a company has. It covers up all the mistakes, it enables the company and management to focus on things that aren't important to the company's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2023
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The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics

23 Oct 2012
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Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2015
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testosterone. Taken together, all but one conceptual replication has demonstrated support for the embodied effects of expansive nonverbal postures. However, multiple experiments have found that the postural effects appear to be bounded by... View Details