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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness.” “Your dreams are liars. Here’s the problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness.” The big problem that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

proponent of uncomfortable topics such as human cloning, genetic screening, and antiaging medicines. Yet he is more passionate about the discussion these issues generate than any final outcome. "We are in the awkward early stages of... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

and financing alternatives. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/mission-produce/an/514023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-025 Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

as the father of leadership." In an extended remembrance that Bill sent to me, he went on to say that "It was Warren who first said leadership is not a set of genetic characteristics, but rather the result of the lifelong... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 26 Aug 2016
  • News

Connecting with the Past

networking cards; Modular Visions Systems; and Gage Electronics, the first manufacturer of computer-based instrumentation. In 1991, the need to find and warn family members of their genetic heritage prompted Diamond to concentrate on that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

turned to his first love—the ocean—for his next adventures, inspired in no small part by his daughter Lily, who was born in 2009 with a rare genetic disorder that has left her severely disabled. “My original idea of a typical retirement... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

contemplates the future of IPG, he must evaluate two exciting opportunities, and students are asked to consider where Nadauld should focus IPG’s resources: should IPG partner with Intermountain’s behavioral health team to conduct joint... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2019
  • News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

What's the Word?

allowing users to retain relative anonymity. Back to top Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) As the months of the pandemic ticked by, many of us were transfixed by progress updates on vaccine development. Moderna’s mRNA technology, we learned, uses molecules to carry the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like leukemia and certain View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

  PublicationsLords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2010) Abstract Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, young... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

and, as a result, gain the capacity to curb its influence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cultural Notes on Chinese Negotiating Behavior Authors:James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian Abstract Western... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

to actually use sophisticated behaviors is futile. That's what drives the need for coaches. Then you say, OK, let's assume that we accept the fact that (a) a lot of knowledge in businesses is tacit, not explicit; (b) that we need to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

concealment and transparency in modern labor markets and point to an important interplay between the self-presentation of employers and the self-presentation of job seekers in shaping economic inequality. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike personal networking in pursuit of emotional support or friendship, and unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television networks tested in response to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

investments, threatening the performance of both individual firms and the U.S. economy. I argue that short-termism also invites institutional corruption. I define that as institutionally supported behavior that-while not necessarily... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel