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14 Jan 2019
Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

says, "We came to graduate school thinking that HBS would make many things more flexible for us. But it can be difficult to synch our time together. We learned how to carve out time together and take... View Details

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

Back in 2001, I wanted to test some theoretical predictions about negotiations versus auctions. At the time I was co-course head for the first-year required course on Negotiation at HBS, so I designed an elaborate experiment that View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

third party, the stock exchange, take responsibility for these functions. Stock exchanges' interests are the creation of a well-functioning capital market, where good and bad news are equally likely to be disclosed in a timely fashion.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

Section B, year of 1979. I would urge people not to think of retirement as a term at all. Now you are at a stage of life where you have freedom to choose how you will engage your time and energy, your purpose. You have the financial... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect

Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

ideas with two of the same friends I had tried starting a company with earlier. Timing worked out well, as one of these friends had also just started business school at Sloan. To target our brainstorming, we focused specifically on how... View Details

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

still come from one source, search and advertising, despite the organization's emphasis on providing time and an organization for innovation among its associates. I remembered the airline Song, which had introduced service innovations... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

flight, hop onboard, conduct business in the private cabin, attend their meeting, and fly home later the same day. The same would hold true for a Boston–New York traveler using the area’s smaller, regional airports. Leiman, Ogden, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

and high performers draw on them less. NEXT UP: NEW COLLABORATION TOOLS Not all intermittency is gone, despite management trends and collaboration tools pushing the always-on ethos. Sprints used by agile teams are an example of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

Web

Special Collections & Archives Appointment Form | Baker Library

Special Collections & Archives Appointment Form Special Collections and Archives' de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room is open to all eligible users by appointment. Use this form to submit an appointment request for the Reading Room, open... View Details

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the best career decision you ever make is to take a pay cut in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Financial databases: certification and training | Baker Library

the industry by financial market professionals. Using our on-demand learning catalogue, you can upskill and prepare at your own pace, with a final test that is accessible online for you to self-register for and take at a View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place

way or another, the experience of waiting touches all of us,” says Associate Professor Ryan Buell. His recent working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues,” examines the human tendency to be uncomfortable as the last person in line–causing View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Nov 2016
News

Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector

Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) It was the “opportunity to be part of something bigger than myself” that drew Rebecca Greenbaum (MBA 2017) to the US Naval Academy. After graduating and... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

Professor Lynda Applegate’s Building E-Businesses course does more than just translate standard case material into an online format. She uses audio and video clips for storytelling, then offers eye-catching visuals and drill-down... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

case method hasn’t changed much over the years. It goes something like this: it’s time consuming, costly, educationally inefficient, hard to use effectively, and too often employs cases that are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

get any larger. However, as of 2019, new blades measured up to 107 meters long, or 8 times longer than the blade shown in the picture! With each incremental increase in the length of the blade, the swept area of the wind turbine increases... View Details

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

investors and those in the private sector would understand. “For those of us with a nonprofit background, we need to translate the things we have done when talking with companies who are hiring for roles in the private sector,” Mbanusi... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

tide. “If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people. Can you imagine? That’s a bit of a doomsday perspective, but it’s a call to action.” “We are approaching... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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