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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
boardrooms, academia, and the business press to examine their roles in sustaining or promoting worrisome flaws in the process corporations use to fill their top office. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) HBS Press Books in Brief As the recent... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
understanding of their distant colleagues, while reflected knowledge promoted feelings of being understood. We discuss implications of reflected knowledge to theories of trust and interpersonal dynamics in globally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
BertiniHarvard Business School Case 511-108 Barceló Hotels and Resorts must decide whether to allow its many hotels to continue to undertake separate promotional campaigns or to run, for the first time, a broad corporate-level promotion.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
model. This strategy was based on four axes, which included: (a) alliances with labor cooperatives to generate income opportunities for the regional population; (b) educational development of neighboring communities to promote individual... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
of corporate purpose, and for good reason. Too many companies deploy purpose as a promotional vehicle to make themselves feel virtuous and to look good to the outside world. Some have only foggy ideas about what purpose is and conflate it... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Are Daily Deals Good for Merchants? Gupta, Sunil, Ray Weaver, Timothy Keiningham, and Luke WilliamsHarvard Business School Case 513-059 In the relatively short time since Groupon was founded, the response to "daily deals"-services that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
consultants, and promoters can give us a good idea of a product's acceptance within a week. With one of our perfumes, we realized it would be a failure from the consultants' reactions, even before the actual product was put into the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurship as an intellectual onion -- you peel back layer after layer, never finding a core idea, and all you do is cry. Another colleague told me that the likelihood of getting promoted would be inversely correlated with the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
peers. Qualitative data offer insights into the social identification processes underlying demographic similarity effects on turnover and promotion in professional service organizations. Working PapersLearning from My Success and from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
workplace injustice and transform our careers and organizations in the process. We―all of us―consistently exclude, underestimate, and underutilize huge numbers of people in the workforce, even as we include, overestimate, and promote... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wanting to rent breast pumps) and offers a wide array of products to promote a healthy lifestyle, such as vitamins, aromatherapy tinctures, herbal remedies, and natural skin creams. "Today, people are looking less to doctors to enhance... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
solution to Japan's persistent low economic growth. Several decades of economic stagnation led Abe to spearhead a multi-faceted reform effort to shake off deflation and come to grips with Japan's large national debt and rapidly aging society. "Womenomics"—the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15
economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
environments. We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The results suggest that decision-makers take high nominal performance as... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
question. For his part, Olson endorses a strategy of cooperation over confrontation. Macmillan may have won the pricing war, but what have they lost? After all, Amazon can retaliate by promoting other publishers' titles more. "I... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
music business also meant having to do without the financial, logistical, and promotional power of the major labels. To provide an alternative to the muscle of the major labels, the company is launching a venture capital project called... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
won't be able to do this job. Q: What was the toughest part of the job? A: It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest situations are dealing with real-life human problems... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
seminars, learning an industry by working in it; these are all ways to develop expertise that will promote your success in investing. But in both entrepreneurship and angel investing, there is nothing like doing it. Nothing. The... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
Choudhury explains. Bowing out of communicating has the potential of negatively impacting the careers of women, who may select positions that don’t require as much time-shifting—which in the long term might limit their job opportunities, wages, and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding