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  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

the upper hand? Has managerial capitalism and the power of the executive peaked? What do you think? To Read More: John C. Bogle, The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). Michael C. Jensen and Kevin... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

of entrepreneurial pitching," says Alison Wood Brooks, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School who coauthored the paper with Laura Huang, an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Sarah... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

At the same time, he adds, there will be "a new set of management and pop psychology books with dubious claims ." Among the potential benefits making it highly relevant, according to David Skinner, is that "its output might... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., Business... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

said. “I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” To find out if other players would feel the same way, the researchers surveyed 74 baseball pitchers from universities in the United States and found that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

co-written by HBS doctoral candidate Hayley Blunden, Harvard University post-doctoral fellow Jennifer M. Logg, and HBS professors Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie K. John, and Francesca Gino. “In asking a co-worker for advice, you have this... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

Exchange Authors:F. Gino and F. Flynn Publication:Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies show that gift recipients are more appreciative receiving gifts they explicitly request than those they do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53137 July 2017 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

Publication: Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., in press Abstract A collection of papers on ethics, translated into Italian. Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments Editors: R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M. H. Bazerman Publication: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

global leaders I meet are beginning to think quite hard about addressing their role in these problems," Henderson said. "There is so much power at firms. They have the ability to make a difference." Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

response." Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard and is a member of the General Management and Strategy units at HBS. Many HBS students hope to land with companies dedicated to this dual focus, said... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing on concise, View Details
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and debt issues that played key roles in the economic crisis that hit... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 26 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

The term "academic research" can conjure images of scientists conducting experiments in a basement laboratory, or of tweed-clad professors poring through old theories to develop new ones. But let's not forget about field research, which happens beyond View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

Enterprise Capital Markets Harvard Business School Case 307-078 Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a... View Details
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/KesslerRoth_OrganDonationAndAllocation.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, L. Pierce, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

book shows why such "predictable surprises" put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a universal fear factor surrounding this subject: that society and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

  Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne