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- January 2025 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or launching startups and launching... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- News
Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
generation” leader for the club. Tanaka is likewise focused on the club’s efforts to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in business and society. “I am most excited about accelerating DEI initiatives in the community,” she says. “We would View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
Few people see a relationship between tipping and bribing. But consider this: In places where people tip heavily, bribes are more likely to exchange hands as well. Research shows that there's actually a fine line between the socially... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. Its effort is to find new ways of exploring how institutions, political movements, and legal... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
can amplify bias. Some companies try to address the issue by making sure that their algorithms don’t use data on protected characteristics such as race or gender. Yet, eliminating factors like race from an algorithm doesn’t address the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
in what situation—to guide their decision making around innovation. Managers typically grow impatient when we tell them this. "Theory?" they say. "That sounds like theoretical. That sounds View Details
- 16 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 16, 2007
measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns. It builds on the two broader and more irrefutable assumptions of behavioral finance—sentiment and the limits to arbitrage—to explain which stocks are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
"One of the nation's oldest and sickest industries is embarking on a quiet attempt to cure some of its own ills. The patients are the operators of coastwise and intercoastal ships that carry dry cargoes." The cure, the article noted, was business operators... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
for it to back away from the public commitment he made. If the company now fails to respond with a competitive bid, it is likely to take a greater hit in the stock market than if he had simply kept quiet and let you bid. By increasing the... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
possibly unsurprising, way: Women expected more gender bias in their feedback than men did. "Gender bias in performance feedback is a well-documented phenomenon. Women are less likely to receive specific feedback tied to work outcomes."... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Britannica [article], you will find no significant difference in bias," says Zhu. "Longer articles are much more likely to include these code words." Rinsing Out Bias Perhaps the most interesting finding of Zhu and Greenstein's research... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
there are legal dimensions to business and they, like the financial or IT functions, need to be managed. They are too important to delegate to persons, i.e., lawyers, who may not understand the broader business objectives. Second, the law... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
Source: iPhoto Startup founders with a hands-on management style are more likely to retain employees and see their firms thrive, new research shows. The results are particularly applicable to knowledge-intensive technology firms, where... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
what you'd like that person to be like. There are really bad bosses, and you can't be naive or cynical about this. It's hard to be successful with a bad boss, and sometimes success means figuring out how to get out of that situation. But... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
customers have bought the detergent anyway? “The folks who had the data did not go to the managers and say, ‘I have all this data. Let me tell you how to run your business now.’ They said, ‘Look, let me understand the key questions you would View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS
during the summer EC enrollment process and pending availability. Specific IFC offerings and locations vary year-to-year. Additionally, students enrolled in each IFC have the opportunity to submit preferences for which project, if applicable, that they would View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
coordination; and engagement in process innovation. Teams that prepare by setting aside time to gather together and preview all aspects of a disruptive procedure, for example, are more likely to successfully implement the technology. At... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- Profile
Tara Basu Trivedi
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? To get out of my comfort zone – to explore startup ideas, to meet people who don’t think like me, to learn about what goes into making a team and a product successful. I knew I’d never... View Details