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  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

The U.S. Job Search for International Students

CPD uses a job search framework to help students think about the job search: “Discover, Source and Pitch”. First, you need to discover what interests you. Then, you need to find opportunities that align with... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

French youth services organization Unis-Cité, which was modeled after the American nonprofit City Year. Credit:  Unis-Cité “If you do not innovate and have a solution to the problem you’ve identified, the movement will die,” she says. “I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

and his colleagues have started thinking about ways to intervene. The researchers are developing bots that could potentially identify and notify people who post high levels of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting
  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global

Middle East & North Africa Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

neon sign advertising $5 off a $20,000 car? That's going to turn customers away. "If it's an insignificant discount, then you're actually putting yourself at a disadvantage by highlighting the price first, because people are now View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 15 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Shaky Business: How Handshakes Win Negotiations

see whether handshaking might still help with negotiating deals. “ If your instinct is not to shake, it would be wise to think of sending another signal of cooperation” They found that shaking hands is a powerful gesture that creates a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

    I think that most business school research should examine and help solve real-world problems that managers are facing--or that they might face in the future. This means that these scholars need to choose relevant research questions, and propose and test hypotheses... View Details

    • March 2012
    • Article

    Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

    By: David A. Moss
    In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

    Strengthen your capacity to create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs to be done and aligning your business’s resources, processes, View Details
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    The Business Case for Curiosity

    By: Francesca Gino
    Although leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of and common barriers to curiosity in the workplace and... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Learning; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness
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    • March 2008
    • Article

    Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

    We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable" than the standard second price auction mechanism. We bring this mechanism,... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Auctions; Learning; Economics
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    • 18 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

    Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
    Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
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    By: Julian J. Zlatev
    First, Professor Zlatev studies how people make decisions that reinforce a sense that they are good or moral. He studies the psychology behind dual motive behaviors—actions that incorporate self-interested and prosocial motives—and the structure of moral identity. For... View Details
    • 18 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

    Do lower-income families need and deserve access to fewer things than everyone else? As a society, we seem to think so, revealing a "grim double standard," finds a study published this... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
    • 21 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

    insights in particular: Employees and managers can disagree on impact. Although employees and managers may both think the impact of a person’s work is important, this does not... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • 2019
    • Article

    Reflections on 25 Years of Building Social Enterprise Education

    By: James E. Austin and V. Kasturi Rangan
    Purpose—This paper aims to reflect on 25 years of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School, examining the processes and thinking involved at key stages of this pioneering Initiative’s implementation and... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise Initiative; Harvard Business School; Social Enterprise; Education; Programs
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    • 17 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

    of the University of Texas-Austin and Amit Seru of Stanford Graduate School of Business. A spate of alleged fraud by Wells Fargo has highlighted a dirty little secret in the financial industry: Misconduct by financial advisors is... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 13 Feb 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

    "It's so appealing on the surface to think that the best way to approach race is to pretend that it doesn't exist," says behavioral psychologist Michael I. Norton, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. "But research shows... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Jan 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Being the Boss

    that wrong," says Lineback, himself a former executive. "They think authority defines them. I've had bosses who had to resort to saying, 'I'm the boss!' And when you get to that point, you've lost... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel