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- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal and the harm it can inflict by avoiding certain types of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
managers to investigate critical opportunities and challenges in the field. The faculty's research yields valuable intellectual capital, including journal articles, working papers, field cases, books, and book chapters. These materials,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
to think through it yourself. When I taught in a management program in Turin in 1953, an Italian assistant of mine commented that lecture courses had the impact of water over marble: very smooth, leaving little trace. The B-School was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
included virtual onboarding, sales-pipeline restructuring, performance management, M&A acquisition, managing layoffs and furloughs, rethinking the customer experience, and creating financial projections with an unprecedented number of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
example, he argues, fashion industry competitors could agree among themselves to collectively manage resources to reduce the water pollution caused by their manufacturing processes. The beef industry could agree to collaborate on... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and entrepreneur Larry Gulko to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
of a poor person, those fees would be very difficult to justify,” Lal says. “If you can make the service free, that is the best way to initiate adoption, and then you have to think about how you make your money. What are some other... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
and Society, is interested in analyzing and designing social computing systems to meet economic goals. With regard to the interaction of humans with machines, Chen asked: When thinking about social computing, how can we ensure we get the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
philanthropy and a search for 'give us better practices,' " said Nancy Roob, president and CEO of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF). Joining her on the panel were Matt Bannick (HBS MBA 1993), managing partner of Omidyar... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
myself in a difficult situation,” says Powers. Such internships enable MBA students to gain valuable work experience, explore career options, and apply their classroom learnings. As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper investigates how the history of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
two, he had become “a difficult child,” and by three she was calling him a “troublemaker.” He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since. Golf: A Course in Business: A Few Lessons Golf Can Teach Us About... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the enduring challenges teams and managers face. Filled with specific actionable steps, original illustrations, and interactive tools, this timely book will help team members deliver results previously out... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
customers. By having each company specialize in one activity, the companies together do everything more efficiently for the customer. Of course, managing all of these different suppliers of services can be a hassle for consumers.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne