Orientations - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

nostalgic stories with team members may help them build deeper connections because nostalgia orients people toward social goals. For example, in one set of studies my colleagues and I conducted, we found that having research participants... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. One of society’s most vexing problems is the relentlessly short-term orientation that manifests itself in... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Sep 2008
News

Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale

segment called Orientation to Management, a general introduction to concepts, tools, and problem-framing methodologies. In addition, students work on developing interpersonal skills needed to be an effective leader. The next twelve weeks,... View Details

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

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

questionnaire to determine their SVO. Sure enough, those with a pro-social orientation forked over an average of $1.22 for the cookie, while those with a pro-self orientation paid an average of 62 cents.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

This raises a number of questions about who pays a lot...and who pays a little. Can sellers take low-cost subtle actions that will get the people who pay a little to pay a little bit more? Past research on social value orientation shows... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

have focused on overconfidence and other background characteristics. Although this individually and psychologically oriented research has pointed to some interesting correlations, we argue that unfortunate consequences too easily result... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

Profile

Maria Brewer

professional setting and love the creating phase of a business, particularly in early stage startups. I also realized that there were many ways to be involved in socially oriented businesses and personally joined the council of an... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

01 Jun 1997
News

Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

locations of natural phenomena such as mountains and rivers, there are lucky and unlucky places and orientations for buildings; there are auspicious and inauspicious locations for rooms; there are even right and wrong places for objects... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

market-driven and competitive. Explaining the cultural consistency among high-performing companies throughout the world, Deshpandé observes, "Assigning top priority to innovation and customer orientation really does pay dividends. It is... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

the companies that did the best job of order cycle management. Despite the overwhelming data, some companies just do not take the customer orientation seriously.— Benson Shapiro Finally, order cycle management helped to enable the supply... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

MiCampo - Marcus Stromeyer (MBA 2024), Julian Saavedra - MiCampo is an AI-powered ranch management solution for Latin America. NEAT: Niger Meat - Sharif Nami (MBA 2024), Mouin Chreif (MBA 2024), Ali Akhdar - First export oriented abattoir... View Details

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

organizations are certainly economic instruments, but they also have an immense impact on human development and the well-being of society. Sustaining research attention on both the ethical and economic responsibilities of business, and on the tensions between them,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Web

Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA

Fellows. Who should apply? Applicants for the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows program are Harvard College sophomores and juniors who have: A record of academic excellence at Harvard College. Demonstrated leadership and potential for innovation and/or... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure

Simon cautions, "First, recognize that this is a family trip, not just a trip for you and your spouse. It has to be oriented toward everyone. If you plan to have a great time with your kids, then it will work." The family slept in tents,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success

For Claire Pang (MBA 2026), the orientation provided both practical information and a sense of community. “Tactically, the [pre-orientation] equipped me with knowledge, for example about section dues, which are $300 to $400. We needed to... View Details

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

friendlier toward business and investors." Despite all his private-sector activity, Keshavjee spends the bulk of his time on philanthropy, earning numerous awards and commendations for his service. Honey Care Africa, just one of those socially View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

02 Dec 2019
News

A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

today’s students do the same. Supporting People and Programs Barry notes that when he was at the School, there were few students from abroad and only a handful of globally oriented cases discussed, whereas now the numbers for both have... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

orientation to general management that is applicable in all situations — speaks to all students regardless of their near-term aspirations. The judges were also interested to see how entrepreneurship was integrated into some other key HBS... View Details