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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

prosodic cues (things like tone of voice, cadence, silence, laughter, interruptions, and back-channel feedback like “uh-huh” and “yea” that don’t quite fall into the verbal or nonverbal buckets). In “How to... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

compete for managerial talent. Self-knowledge is important in avoiding the sort of over-reach so common in America; it is less common a virtue in America than in Asia, and is a strength of the Asian... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 2018
  • Article

Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818

By: Sudev J Sheth
The meaning of land revenue farming in Indian history has eluded consensus. Some view it as an administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iqṭāʻ... View Details
Keywords: Iqṭāʻ; Ijārah; Revenue Farming; Financial Agents; Mughal Empire; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Property; Finance; South Asia
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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Fall Reunions: Remembrance and Renewal

campus during a weekend of lovely autumn weather. With the country still stunned by the September 11 attacks and their aftermath, this year's event seemed especially meaningful, as a way for participants to reconnect but also to draw... View Details
  • Web

Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environment can be distinctive strengths relative to peers? What strong or emerging clusters can be built upon? How Should States Compete with Each Other? Related Resources 04 May 2012 BusinessWeek “Why America Needs an Economic Strategy”... View Details
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided

Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
  • March–April 2013
  • Article

Vaporware, Suddenware and Trueware: New Product Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty

By: Elie Ofek and Ozge Turut
A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such communications can affect rivals' incentives to develop the same new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Announcements; Competition; Product Launch; Product Development
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  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

demand. “When openings are so scarce, remember that there are a huge array of consulting firms with different strengths and specialties.” Given these challenges, students hoping to go into consulting need to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • April 2009
  • Case

Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Alexander Romney
Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah and southern Idaho that is nationally recognized for its highly structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving... View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Standards; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Idaho; Utah
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  • 16 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

managerial challenge is how to design agile organizations able to leap from strength to strength to strength. How is evolution in the global economy affecting managerial roles View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

Institute at Harvard University and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, offers some insights into the causes and conditions at play. Zeenat Potia: Can you give some context around the... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
  • 30 Nov 2013
  • News

Schumpeter: Going off the rails

  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

degree—conferring an MBA from HBS and a Master of Science (MS) in Engineering Sciences from SEAS—fuses the strengths from management and technology programs to produce the next... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games

By: Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
One of the most crucial aspects and significant levers that gaming companies possess in designing digital games is setting the level of difficulty, which essentially regulates the user’s ability to progress within the game. This aspect is particularly significant in... View Details
Keywords: Freemium; Retention/churn; Field Experiment; Field Experiments; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Mobile App; Mobile App Industry; Monetization; Monetization Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Customers; Retention; Product Design; Strategy
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  • 25 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

strategy was broadly aligned with the requirements of the Nazi regime. The outcomes of these strategies show the strengths and limitations of political risk management. The company survived the Nazi regime... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

leverages the School’s strengths and resources. It encompasses rigorous research, immersive learning, and cutting-edge practical applications that arise from cross-disciplinary... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools