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07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

about equally (un)likely. Comparing the career imprints and career paths of people who worked at these two firms shows that those who left Baxter and Abbott to join biotech firms had a differential impact on this new and emerging field of... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

controversies regarding "reverse racism" highlight Whites' increasing concern about anti-White bias. We show that this emerging belief reflects Whites' view of racism as a zero-sum game, such that decreases in perceived bias... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors. Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a strongly self-serving way. The following experiment View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

A show of hands, please. "How many of you would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with your CEO?" Gail McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments, scanned the audience, but only a few hands wavered upwards.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Unethical Behavior.") Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely to overlook others' unethical behavior when ethical degradation occurs slowly rather than in one abrupt shift. Participants served in the role of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

discussion from one point to the next—are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s until his death in... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

Online education was not new for HBS, as we had developed asynchronous learning and had been developing the HBS Live Online Classroom optimized for remote learning. We are now welcoming students back to campus, and we couldn't be happier... View Details

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

of employees to invest in defined contribution plans and of employers to support them. Others worried whether low-income employees or those in small companies would get left behind. But a Fidelity study showed that most employees have... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

16 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein

12 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

report by the American Association of University Professors showing that during the past three decades, academic employment in the US has shifted away from tenured positions—which tend to bring higher salaries and job security—toward... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) of HBS Career & Professional Development has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have benefited from her... View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society in general. After all, if we can View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

new group. And in the largest show of confidence in other people demonstrated by anyone mentioned in this book, Nelson Mandela opened discussion on a new constitution for South Africa to thousands of people in town meetings all over his... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

that action is taken to address the problems, and (3) communicating about actions taken. Sixty-nine randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which were randomly selected to engage in the three activities for 18 months, participated in the experiment. Survey results View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

last day of class this past spring, "everyone did a double take," Koehn recalls. Oprah Winfrey was in the house. How the icon of daytime television and chief executive of a major media empire came to HBS after three years of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

structural change in the economy. Don't overreact, refocus on strategy. This is the moment where you can do some of those things that perhaps would be difficult to do two or three years ago when the markets were expecting you to, with machinelike precision, to View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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