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  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

negotiation? That's a big motivation for us. When we think about what might make women walk into a negotiation with, say, lower expectations than men, one of the explanations for that comes from social psychology. It's called the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • Article

Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available

By: Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where a long-run player is allowed to use both money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. We show that threats might be used credibly (even in arbitrarily short repeated games) by a long-lived player... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Interests; Power and Influence; Reputation
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  • 01 Oct 2014
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship: Sparking Curiosity

self-discovery. I got a glimpse of how Danaher operated through the lens of Beckman Coulter, an operating company. I scratched the surface of the healthcare and diagnostics industry and put theory to practice with lots of customer... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Technology
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

of 1 percent of the US population. Fewer and fewer American citizens have any connection to the armed forces. A decade later, that’s still a huge concern for me.” Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) CEO and Cofounder, Social Finance Two... View Details
  • June 2008
  • Case

Professors Sven Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (A)

By: James L. Heskett and Tor Askild Aase Johannessen
Professor Kenneth Carpenter has received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Higher Education; Learning; Teaching; Conflict and Resolution
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  • Article

Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement

By: Lucy White and Mark Williams
The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but allows 'cooperative' implementation of agreements. The effect of this is to allow free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Body of Literature; Contracts; Motivation and Incentives; Code Law; Game Theory
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  • Profile

Lindsay Hyde

chance to test strategies on the ground,” Lindsay says, “gives you so much more insight than working with theory alone.” Exploring options for social enterprise “The whole reason I came to business school,”... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

cast may deviate dramatically from pure QV predictions because of the complex and refined nature of equilibrium play. Most plausibly, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

them. Ryan: At HBS, research literally meets practice. The questions we tackle arise from a deep understanding of both the extant theory and the real problems managers face. Michelle entered the doctoral program fascinated by impediments... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2015
  • News

Pointing the Way to a Better World

problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on China’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • June 2010
  • Article

Leadership Competencies for Implementing Planned Organizational Change

By: Julie Battilana, Mattia Gilmartin, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Jeffrey A. Alexander
This paper bridges the leadership and organizational change literatures by exploring the relationship between managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Competency and Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Planning; Relationships; Business Processes; Projects; Theory; Change; Behavior; Health Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

RX for Change

conjunction with the redesign of clinical processes; and designing those processes in such a way that organizations systematically learn from their daily work. Assessing the impact of a program like MHCD requires short- and long-term... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005 critique of the American school... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Management styles and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

identify the critical issues at hand and to articulate a point of view to the management team. In many ways, I am applying the case-reading skills learned at HBS. "I also apply the theories and frameworks of... View Details
  • August 2011
  • Supplement

Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree, In-Class Comments, April 1, 2011

By: David A. Garvin
MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collaborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must create... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; India
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

beholder. You either learn what it is from your parents or you'll never get it." Instead, professors use theory and examples to teach future business leaders why value is important and how to create an... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler