Cognition and Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

2007
Other Unpublished Work

Probabilities as Similarity-Weighted Frequencies in Presence of Irrelevant Observations

By: Jacob Dov Leshno

A decision maker is asked to express her beliefs by assigning probabilities to certain possible states. We focus on the relationship between her database and her beliefs. BGSS\cite{BGSS} show that if beliefs given a union of two databases are a convex combination of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking

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18 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner

For my wife (Megan) and me, relocating 3,000 miles across the country from Los Angeles to Boston for HBS was a huge deal. We had lived in California our whole lives, only leaving L.A. for short stints in the San Francisco Bay Area for our... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

long run.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStock] Related Reading How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Clay Christensen on Disrupting Health Care Research Paper Cohort Turnover View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

example, managers could receive “bonus points” for choosing underrepresented candidates that they could later redeem for a free service. “This work essentially says you can’t design these algorithms in isolation,” Lakkaraju says. “You’ve also got to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

hear the arguments for and against the options that were rejected. In addition, they must address employees' fears: "People want to know why you think they can make it through the change," Garvin... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

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Schwartz Art Collection | About

Schwartz Art Collection Displayed throughout the campus to inspire students to think creatively and incorporate art into their lives. About the Collection View the Art Play The Schwartz Art Collection:... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

the benefits of the “work-from-anywhere” movement for both companies and workers. “There’s been brain drain from small towns into large urban clusters, but I don't think we have seen the spatial... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

innovative ideas?'" Firms don’t need to necessarily fund their own research, but they should think about hiring some employees well-versed in their field’s scientific landscape to help source, read, and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

offerings: Design Thinking and Innovation, Power and Influence for Positive Impact, and Sustainable Investing. Total HBS Online revenue amounted... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

first job interview in 1990. When the owner of the company asked if I had any other questions, I made clear that insurance coverage for my domestic partner was a condition of my employment, which wasn’t really done then. Had I not had the fortitude of friends, View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

own homes in a quarter of the time and a third of the cost. They hope to expand the program ten-fold over five years and hope to launch similar programs in other countries including Egypt, the Philippines,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

to make time for both. You Have More Choices than You Think Ambitious people tend to pursue demanding careers. As they advance, many professionals cannot help but wonder about the state of their personal lives. What do they owe, View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

kicking off a panel discussion at Cyberposium 2000. "But I think it's fair to characterize the incubator space as rather a sleepy one." Until now, that is. Once largely the domain of universities View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

every aspect of corporate strategy." The articles in the book have been selected, he writes, "to help corporate leaders think through global strategies at a time when there are few guideposts to navigating the mind-boggling... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten's Tokyo headquarters and dropped a bomb: all 7,100 workers would have two years to become proficient in English—the... View Details