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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
they might order homers or request some for their friends. Also, on the organizational level, effectiveness might be improved. The company might get more from its employees when it gives them more: In this case, for instance, allowing... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience
all very helpful before, throughout, and after the program. Peek for me was an HBS sampler for an intensive few days; with cases drawn from real life, everything we learned was very applicable. I never knew about the network effect until... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
“For the Romans, being an emperor is all about contradictions, because they’ve got to be wildly ambitious, almost a lunatic, but they also have to...consult their peers and carefully use every segment of Roman society.” What can MBAs... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
have responded so swiftly and effectively without the HBS Fund. JONES: Some alumni wonder why the School needs their HBS Fund gifts each year. We spend a lot of our volunteer time educating alumni about the endowment. While HBS has been... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
needs to be known by members of an organization? What are the limits on transparency in the workplace? What do you think? To read more: David Card, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moreti, and Emmanuel Saez, Inequality at Work: The Effect of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Marketing - HBS Online
Certificate Courses (3) Digital Marketing Strategy Professor Sunil Gupta Craft data-driven digital marketing strategies that effectively reach, convert, and retain customers in a dynamic online environment. 7 weeks, 6-7 hrs/week Enroll by... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55811 forthcoming Administrative Science Quarterly Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model By: McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
finally, food is on the agenda like never before.” “The awards are really a dual opportunity. Yes, they help guide people’s choice of restaurants, and it’s a form of peer recognition that is really valued by the community. But in the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
particular circumstances,” says Sucher, MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow. “Both why and how they are done matter—to employees and to the company’s future performance.” Sucher is exploring how some companies are... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
strengthen their relationships with colleagues and supervisors," he says. As a result, people of color typically begin having notable careers when they break into middle management. "Minority managers do, in fact, have to be more deeply grounded and better... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
There is also a network effect at work in that everyone on a project needs to use the tool for it to generate the most value to any one user or to the system. I would study what Slack did and get the tool into the hands of groups of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
world. Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01), John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer (Jossey-Bass) The authors show how donors can increase their impact in advancing social causes. Rather than focusing on the... View Details
- Web
Digital Transformation - HBS Online
resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. Learn More about what you earn What Learners are Saying I'd never experienced such an immersive platform online. It was more effective at building and solidifying knowledge than... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lower quantities, magnifying the below-normative level behavior when facing high margin but partially counterbalancing the above-normative level behavior when facing low margin, violating the pull-to-center effect in both cases.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
roles after that. It was a giant leap forward in my ability to be an effective executive.” After one year at Mercy Corps, Zeaske stayed with the organization as a Program Strategy Manager for another year before joining Jumpstart as the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise