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- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
peers judge them to be such," according to management writer Gary Hamel. Theoretically, the idea of employees choosing their bosses sounds attractive. There is little evidence, however, to support the impact of this practice on... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results:... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog 3 Technologies that Will Change the World Course Number 1632 Professor of Management Practice Shikhar Ghosh Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper ‘The real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study of the modern era of venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
focuses on a new adaptation of an older sport: auto racing. In December, the partners invested $21 million toward Formula E Holdings, the management team behind an all-electric racecar circuit that will launch its inaugural championship... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that others get stomachaches without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
remained optimistic about the future, carving a path for himself and others despite the obstacles and racism all around him. He was the leader of leaders. His legacy fuels my work. —Deborah Blagg Back to top Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
experience. Moreover, we should not forget that one of the coauthors of the famous Hawthorne Studies (Harold Wright) was also chief of personnel at the Western Electric Company when Management and the Worker: An Account of a Research... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
real money," Kaufman says. "So who's going to tell Bill that we really like his ideas, but that his management style pisses people off? It can feel very risky for board members to think, 'If I pick on Bill, will he pick on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation, published in the October 2015 Academy of Management Journal and co-written with Emily Cox Pahnke and Benjamin Hallen of the University of Washington and Dan Wang of Columbia... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
opportunities, measuring and analyzing purpose inside organizations, ESG data analytics and strategies, and the role of leadership and governance in corporate scandals and misconduct. Key takeaway: “We are still at the early stages of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
whether you can buy T Mobile? The U.S. Department of Justice. Who decided it was a good idea to send consumers a text message before they exceeded data limits on their cell phones? The Federal Communications Commission. But there are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
that if you do things strategically, you can create significant value for the firm. The CSO is in the best position to change this perception, but he needs to have the data and the tight business case to communicate that." CSOs... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
senior management is especially necessary, Coote said, in managing the partnerships that now often result from changed business models and corporate restructurings. Senior View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
volunteer and are recognized for their contributions, despite gender stereotypes,” the paper says. It’s also important for managers to be aware of how confidence gaps may impact the workplace, particularly in professions long dominated by... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
2019 HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power By: Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Services, and Curriculum Services) Business Operations Executive Office Information Management Services ( Analytics, Taxonomy, Search, Data Management) Information Products Team (Working Knowledge, eBaker,... View Details