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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
as the team heading the DTx initiative leans into its mission to position HBS as the lifelong learning partner for future generations of business leaders. The DTx team expects to build its organizational... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter Rebecca... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
their advice because such dismissal threatens advisors’ sense of self-worth, leading them to judge seekers more harshly. Moreover, these effects are compounded by advisor expertise: expert advisors are more likely to punish seekers who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
acquisitions of companies that were important providers of transaction software in the retail and hospitality industries. Now, in late November 2013, Nuti and his team were considering a third potential major acquisition: Digital Insight,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7
Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
McCormack, the founder of leading sports agency IMG, which counts Maria Sharapova as one of its clients, is widely seen as the catalyst behind what has become the sports marketing industry. Legend has it that in 1960, McCormack, a lawyer,... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
breeze about a trendy new third-party tool over a game of Super Smash Bros. in the breakroom. “In most software hackathons, the formal competition aspect is really just a façade to put everyone in a time-bound and high-energy environment. Most View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
mission is to bring together leading scholars and business practitioners to study and shape the digital transformation of the economy. Accordingly, “Beyond Chicken and Egg” included three industry executives, as well as two academics who... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
specified stage of development. It would throw the ball over the fence [to a major pharmaceutical firm] and it would sit around and wait. Sooner or later, if the product was successful, it would collect some royalties." Now, a growing number of biotech firms are... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in neighborhoods where substance abuse, mental health issues, and homelessness are chronic problems. “The goal is to help first responders better assess... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
Law of Business Organization Authors:William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman, and Guhan Subramanian Publication:2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2007 Abstract In Commentary and Cases on the Law of Business Organization, this outstanding author View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
true in the work I do in Sri Lanka, is that the technical solution is easy,” he reflects. “It’s navigating the human side that’s much harder—that’s what I found in my LEAD cases at HBS. There’s never an A, B, C sequence that you can put... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
will play in the discussions, and build mutual respect, particularly with regard to differences in the cognitive styles of each team member. During the deliberations, leaders can intervene in several ways when debates get heated. They... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
really important guy, Jeff Seller, who's the lead producer. He's supposed to make money. It's nice to have someone in an innovation team who thinks about making money. Sometimes we see venture View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
black-and-white and color labs used high-efficiency, rapid turnaround techniques to make evaluations in minutes or hours, rather than weeks or months. The teams included chemists, artists, and those with other interests. Their task in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
faculty to guide rather than lead a discussion. And they’ll still necessitate that students put themselves into the shoes of the protagonist. So I think the engagement around business decisions and business practices will never change.... View Details