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  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

regulation of derivatives to consumer protection), I believe the focus on systemically dangerous firms in Titles I and II is of particular importance. The big question now is how regulators will use the new authority that has been granted... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Web

Outreach Events - Doctoral

than 130 universities granting doctoral degrees in business administration and economics. Its purpose is to promote doctoral education in business throughout the world. Through DocNet events , a group of administrative representatives... View Details
  • Web

People - Doctoral

People People Student Strategy Dafna Bearson PHD 2022 Organizational Behavior Ahmmad Brown Student Marketing Mengjie "Magie" Cheng Student Strategy Rowan Clarke Collaboration 2018 Marketing Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton DBA 2015... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
The evaluation of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet literature suggests that this process is subject to inconsistency and potential biases. This paper investigates the role of information sharing among experts as the... View Details
Keywords: Project Evaluation; Innovation; Knowledge Frontier; Negativity Bias; Projects; Innovation and Invention; Information; Diversity; Judgments
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  • Program

Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. Application Deadline OCT 2024 session application due: 15 SEP 2024 Applications submitted after the due date will be considered on an individual basis and may not be processed in time... View Details
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Patent terminology: Provisional vs nonprovisional

What is the difference between a provisional and non-provisional patent application? A nonprovisional patent application is normally considered the "regular" utility patent application. It’s what you file to get the USPTO to review your utility... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

correctly and shaping one’s response to it optimally. The maxim of Epictetus, “What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens,” has similarities to both Buddhist doctrine and the Alcoholics Anonymous... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • Program

Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. Application Deadline MAY 2022 session application due: 25 APR 2022 Applications submitted after the due date will be considered on an individual basis and may... View Details
  • 31 May 2023
  • HBS Case

From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller

Gerdeman of HBS Working Knowledge. Inspired by the case "Larry Miller." Made possible by a Harvard Library Advancing Open Knowledge Grant and support from Baker Library at HBS. The Journey of Larry Miller VIDEO: Why Business Leaders Need... View Details
Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Do those served grow as persons (and become) more likely themselves to become servants?" Now it appears that a group of organizational psychologists, led by Adam Grant, are attempting to measure the impact of servant leadership on leaders, not just those being... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact

By: Michelle A. Kinch and Ryan W. Buell
Prior research in social psychology has shown that when people feel anxious, they seek advice from others. However, companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are increasingly deploying self-service... View Details
Keywords: Anxiety; Self-service; Empirical Operations; Behavioral Operations; Communication Technology; Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Trust; Satisfaction; Financial Services Industry
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    Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

    Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details

    • 27 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 27, 2009

    position is strong enough. To curb this possibility, the principal-owner optimally reduces the degree of autonomy granted to the manager. Hence higher levels of managerial autonomy are more likely for intermediate levels of competition.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

    By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
    We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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    • October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    Rock Health

    By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
    Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

    By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
    We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity
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    • January–February 2013
    • Article

    When the Crowd Fights Corruption

    By: Paul M. Healy and Karthik Ramanna
    Corruption is the greatest impediment to conducting business in Russia, according to leaders recently surveyed by the World Economic Forum. Indeed, it's a problem in many emerging markets, and businesses have a role to play in combating it, according to Healy and... View Details
    Keywords: Corruption; Emerging Economies; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Globalization; Russia; Georgia (nation, Asia); India
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    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    Model 14 DEC 2022 | Climate Rising Grant Canary, CEO of DroneSeed, a startup company designed to accelerate reforestation after wildfires, shares his perspective on the landscape of nature-based carbon removal solutions and how DroneSeed... View Details
    • 2023
    • Article

    Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to Be Forgotten

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Satyapriya Krishna and Jiaqi Ma
    The Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten are two important principles outlined to regulate algorithmic decision making and data usage in real-world applications. While the right to explanation allows individuals to request an actionable explanation for an... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

    By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
    Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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