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U.S. Competitiveness
five years of U.S. Competiveness Project research Re: Nitin Nohria 22 Sep 2016 YAHOO! FINANCE External There’s one piece of tax reform that would have a real impact with little resistance Re: Mihir Desai #USComp More Tweets In the News 06... View Details
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friends. Exploring deployment options for ling.ai in low-resource communities has taught me the importance of simplifying technologies, sustainability, and scalability when designing and developing new tech. I've also been doing research... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
tell if these online matches came to fruition in real life.) Defining desirability To sort matches, the researchers measured desirability, though not in the “supermodel” sense. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: The team determined... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
blocking power. So let’s assume that, with many contenders, Amazon had powerful reasons to choose New York. Comparative advantages presumably ranged from a large and highly educated employee pool to big incentives and to local entertainment View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
researchers recruited 104 participants to play the ultimatum game, a popular tool among experimental economists. In the traditional version of the game, one player (the allocator) receives a sum of money and proposes how to divvy it up with a partner (the receiver).... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
wanted to pursue an MBA, I ended up using the knowledge I gained from CORe to interview for and land my current job. Kali Pfaff Operations Strategist at University Hospitals of Cleveland BA, Communications, Kent State University Get ready for the View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
are made from spirit, and that "with science comes anonymity with art comes denial a real decision is delivered from the soul." The science of choosing was characterized as what business does to influence consumers. Gerald... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
reasoned that a round bid indicated that the bidder wasn’t confident of the appropriate price. Two of the bankers showed a weak preference for the precise option but weren’t sure why; two had no preference. The remaining five preferred... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
flexibility to deal with unexpected scenarios or combinations of scenarios. This is important because real crises rarely directly match planning scenarios. If response options aren't flexible and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
by Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane E. Dutton. Series in Organization and Management. New York: Psychology Press, 2012 Abstract How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
agreements, that support relative-value strategies. Careful attention is paid to the bond math calculations that support the protagonist's analysis and decision. All quoted prices in the case are real and historical, and corresponding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church College The case centers on Christ Church’s Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College's endowment in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
of Employee Stock Options Expensing Authors:Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace