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Lisa Cousins
those two individuals and their classmates, and was hungry for that kind of experience to grow my own leadership potential. How did your overall HBS experience shape your goals & career path? HBS made me so much more certain of what I was meant to do and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
consequences of these changes and shifts for the firm's success, strategy, and organization. A Choice Prediction Competition, for Choices from Experience and from Description Authors:Ido Erev, Eyal Ert,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
initiative's rapid progress has been aided greatly by the strength of the technology groundwork that has been established at the School over the past few decades. "This is not something brand new," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
importance of values and standards in business and the role leaders play in articulating them. Fifteen years ago we began teaching a required course called Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. Last December, after a couple of years of work, the faculty voted to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
says Luca. He also hopes the research will be helpful for college-bound students. “College choice is a fascinating behavioral economics puzzle, and this is one piece,” he says. “Despite the fact that the school will predictably get safer... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported by other... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
system are settled. The main result is that these liquidity needs are larger when these firms are more interconnected through their debts, i.e., when they borrow from and lend to more firms. Two pecuniary externalities are discussed. One involves the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
hosts who have never had an African-American guest, suggesting only a subset of hosts discriminate. While rental markets have achieved significant reductions in discrimination in recent decades, our results suggest that Airbnb’s current design View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
out and I’ve lost the plot on where we’re going in the case. I’ve got two choices now. I can either say, sorry I wasn’t listening, or I wasn’t paying attention. Or, I’ve got a 50-50 choice. I go for the 50-50 choice. I say, “Oh, I think... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
persuade people, when the country was falling apart, that you see an incredible opportunity to move ahead,” she says. But all of those cases from second-year Entrepreneurial Finance proved invaluable in helping her grow the business in spite of a fractured economy.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
May 2018, the De Beers Group shocked the diamond industry when it announced it was launching a new fashion jewelry brand of laboratory-grown (synthetic) diamonds. The reaction was swift as people sought to understand the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Jason A. Kilar
My co-founder Rich Tom and I observed that the audiences so coveted by traditional TV were gravitating toward a new generation of digital storytellers. Many of these voices have become brands in their own right and have built passionate... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
investors speculate, even mild diagnostic distortions generate substantial bubbles. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55653 Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices By: Buell,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing or decreasing, depending on the magnitude of a manager's career incentives. Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions Authors:David E. Bell and Ralph L. Keeney Publication:In The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
has been called IT agility. Unfortunately, we have little understanding of the antecedents of IT agility, specifically with respect to the choices that a firm makes when designing its portfolio of software applications. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The globalization of toiletries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace