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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning View Details

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

doctoral students to design and implement experiments and surveys to study negotiation and decision making, with an emphasis on how biases affect decisions. Tara earned her B.A. cum laude in Psychology (Psi Chi) from Boston University.... View Details

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Feb 2021
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Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

writers with female writers with similar experience levels. When women are the decision makers Since production teams with female producers are doing most of that hiring of other women, the research points to how key it is for women to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

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Adriann Dolphin

section and the HBS PRIDE club. Being part of the HBS community is like Finding a whole new family. The section experience is my favorite so far. My section is like a 90-person family, we support each other through academics, recruiting,... View Details

08 May 2024
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Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Awarded Medal of Freedom

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) was one of 19 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on May 2. “From finance to media to philanthropy, Michael Bloomberg has revolutionized our economy,” President Biden said as he conferred the Nation’s highest... View Details

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

about teaching the students, as opposed to teaching the case. Instructors who know their students well are better able to create a learning experience that is genuinely participant-centered. A familiarity with student's backgrounds... View Details

27 Sep 2010
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Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Mayo’s The Human Problems of Industrial Civilization , in the journal The Human Factor , 1934 The Depression and massive layoff of employees at Western Electric helped bring the Hawthorne experiments to a grinding halt in the early 1930s.... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

first case Moss, who came to HBS with a background and degrees in both history and economics, wrote in 1994: “Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763–1792.” His experience teaching that case suggested that... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

(Experiment 2), and non-suppression (Experiment 3). However, when firms honor these implicit promises, voting can mitigate the disappointment that arises from receiving an undesired outcome (Experiment 4). Finally, Experiment 5 identifies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2007
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All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

an HBS alumnus in Vienna, Georg Kasperkovitz (HBS MBA 1999), and decided to highlight Slovakia's experience when we realized that the flat tax was one of the hot topics. Meanwhile, we were witnessing "reform fatigue" within the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Events - Business History

free to download and use for teaching, research, or general interest. At this online conference, speakers shared their experiences using CEM transcripts and video materials for teaching in different institutional contexts in Europe,... View Details

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

effect of external finance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-047.pdf Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship Authors:Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity depends on the prior career... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

by thinking about how it might have changed an important decision, had we had it in place when we made the decision. My experiences in researching and putting a value on an effective culture tell me that if notions concerning deep purpose... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“launching pad” for students just starting to explore interests in social impact across multiple sectors, or for students with deep experience in the space looking to meet like-minded peers. Social Enterprise Conference An annual two-day... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Happier-ness at Work

Winfrey is a global media leader and for 25 years hosted the Oprah Winfrey Show. Their book draws on social science research and decades of experience to suggest that one can build a better life by focusing on four pillars: family,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Jun 2020
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It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

serial entrepreneur and leadership coach. Unleashed, their second book, reflects the married couple’s passion for sharing the knowledge and experience they have gained through years as “accelerators of action.” Kristen Senz: How did you... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

23 Apr 2012
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How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

video game consoles, for example) or the complete name change approach (Nintendo's Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii). The professors conducted a series of experiments to determine when and why each approach made the most sense. Brand Name... View Details