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- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
trying to do a mediocre job for everybody? No. You get five I get five? I want something where you get eight and I get eight. So don't give me mediocre is balanced. I won't accept it. Morrell: Did you feel the pressure of delivering these statements at all? Did you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
test my limits and spark my sense of purpose. When the Peace Corps turned me down (it typically requires a college degree), I moved to Latin America. The experience blew open my sense of self and what I wanted to do with my life. Ever... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
devoid of objective improvement—when revisions are trivial (Study 3A), incidental (Study 3B), non-existent (Study 3C), and even objectively worse than the original (Study 3D). Study 4 directly tests the self-fulfilling nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
out one or more major owners. It's a good stress test for a business. "It's an emotional process." Buyouts in family companies are not just about the money. Lots of emotions can surface in a buyout, even if all parties get... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
and the importance of systems thinking as an intuitive lens to achieving long-lasting impact. Designing for Systems Change : The process of developing and testing effective solutions to enduring problems through the idea of being... View Details
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Israel on 10/7 and, in the weeks since, mounting civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. To date, thousands of innocent lives have been tragically lost. The pain, grief, and fear from these events and a rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to continue to serve patients.” Similarly, health systems were able to meet the needs of patients as guidelines changed and COVID-19 spread. So, from the start of the pandemic, organizations could channel users to the services they needed—be it a call to a nursing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
someone. On the other hand, a strategy that calls for broad but shallow market penetration is likely to produce an inconsequential valuation. If the intention is to hold the company for a long time, and the tolerance for risk is high, then one might View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
managing a Beijing sock factory, came packaged with a CD-ROM of short video clips. The case laid the foundation for a new type of storytelling within the confines of the tested HBS case method, but the fledgling online video technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest stockholders across sets of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
families.” “Dr J Do what is right” put it this way: “The organization’s culture is getting tested My advice would be to quickly hold a series of town hall meetings with employees to gauge what they feel. More importantly, it needs to be a... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
ordinarily selfish behavior and make them temporarily more generous. Into The Field It's one thing to test this theoretically, it's another to put it into practice in the real world. For their last experiment, Santana and Morwitz went... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
Wheeler hopes. "I can't control whether the person across the table has had a bad day, but if I put my attention on the skills that are tested in the app, that is something positive I can do. As opposed to having negotiation be something... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
more likely to bid higher on an eBay auction when competing to buy a product? To test their hypothesis, Bos and Cuddy conducted an experiment at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, a university-wide research facility for behavioral... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Although some research has examined overt status rivalries, typically focusing on battles for the top positions, our study contributes novel findings on the effects of disagreement amongst all members' perceptions of their team's status hierarchy. This paper develops... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
transitions is surprising. In part, I think it's due to a "sink or swim" managerial culture that is present in most companies. Transitions are treated as testing experiences—what I have come to call leadership development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
independent project during the second-year of the MBA Program, which grants a student academic credit for completing project-based work for a company or helping a faculty member with research. For students who want to test out more than... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls for leading Enterprise Technology companies. During that time, an Ebola outbreak ravaged West African countries. I feared that during and after the outbreak... View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020
“action research,” through which faculty members deeply engage with organizations and their leaders over an extended period of time to test and implement new ideas and approaches to problem solving. What types of projects have you worked... View Details