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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
in magnitude than the tendency to believe that current others share one’s views (false- consensus effect), arises across cultures, is distinct from general optimism, is strongest when people perceive their views as being objective rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
should be a hard-ass and fire people all the time. I definitely was not that kind of CEO. I probably erred on the side of consensus and collaboration. The external environment is a big factor in creating company culture. For us, it is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st-century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a clear View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
must now find consensus on a plan that meets the needs of Detroit and is acceptable to its creditors. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215070-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-076 Mauboussin Mauboussin... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
officers, cabinet ministers, and unskilled workers-to their ideals for what those wages should be. We show that ideal pay gaps between skilled and unskilled workers are significantly smaller than estimated pay gaps, and that there is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Australian prime minister, Robert Hawke. The government's fiscal position seemed to demand that educational financing be overhauled, but there was no consensus on how best to do this. Could the prime minister convince his Australian Labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Management faced several problems: criticism of multinational companies, anti-trust legislation, expropriations, and rising competition from international and local rivals. Focuses on developing a new global strategy for a company that placed a premium on a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
none of us knew where we were. The sandwich shop was a confusing mess. The consensus seemed to be that the bank manager was right. Michael Flynn was right, and the notion that profit was hard to define was firmly dropped. I felt stupid. I... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
company or team goals from the get-go. "Empowerment can happen only when there's a consensus on goals and an agreement that certain standards have to be met," Kanter says. "If there isn't agreement in the beginning, that's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
how individuals with limited power and resources negotiate and collaborate with the largest of corporations. Community may not be exactly the right word to describe these forms, as the term denotes more consensus than reality might... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
consensus that Enron's demise was what one faculty member characterized as “a creeping disaster” that can only be understood when it is viewed through a variety of lenses. “I think it's safe to say,” posited Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
the repo market be one of them? How can we set these markets so we don't have recurring panics? Finally, there's no question that there is one glaring omission in the legislation. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae don't show up. There are several cures available for what ails... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
obligation to consider the effect of each action not just on shareholders but also on others. is not enough to exhort managers and directors to be ethical. First, a consensus needs to be reached concerning what it means to be ethical in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
health-care service and medical technology providers can play in consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system.... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
and the startup nation. The third module (“Politics: Influence and Unrest”) studies the dynamics leading to the creation and fissuring of political consensus on institutions, broad policy orientations, and specific policies. It gives... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
told that their only responsibility is to the bottom line. But consensus is that companies―and their leaders―must engage with their social and environmental contexts. In this book, Geoffrey Jones distinguishes deep responsibility, which... View Details