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Deals Q2 - Course Catalog

Corporations, Corporations taken concurrently, or permission of the instructor is a prerequisite. A familiarity with basic business concepts will be assumed throughout the course. For HBS students, in addition to the first-year... View Details

31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

(conditional) gender gap is largest among faculty members at the highest status institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-014.pdf Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2010
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Head Games

The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

drive this reaction. February 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science When Does Familiarity Promote Versus Undermine Interpersonal Attraction? A Proposed Integrative Model from Erstwhile Adversaries By: Finkel, Eli J., Michael I.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Inessa Lurye

organization with about fifty to sixty members. Inessa and her Design Club colleagues are developing workshops and inviting speakers who address “more creative ways of approaching familiar problems, generating ideas, prototyping... View Details

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2.3 Community Standards of Conduct | MBA

for one’s own well-being, including responsible decision-making regarding physical and mental health. Further, HBS expects every student to be familiar with the regulations governing membership in the Harvard community set forth in this... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits

government, and the nonprofit sectors.” Because they will possess a heightened familiarity with the overlapping relationships across sectors, Porter believes that former fellows will, over time, constitute a key network of managers. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting

trusted and familiar source. Sharing your story and anecdotes about how you transitioned from HBS to your company will resonate with students, so don’t hesitate to get personal. Be open to candidates with background in a different... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

a struggle, but sometimes a rewarding one. "I don’t think you have to trust just the people who look familiar to you," Wiley said. "Even if you’re the only person of color, that doesn’t mean you can’t test the trust ... or... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

2009
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Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation

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2013
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Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space

By: Joseph P. Davin, Sunil Gupta and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

We study the impact of peer behavior on the adoption of mobile apps in a social network. To identify social influence properly, we introduce latent space as an approach to control for latent homophily, the idea that "birds of a feather flock together." In a series of... View Details

Keywords: Social Influence; Social Network; Mobile App; Peer Effects; Latent Homophily; Latent Space; Proxy Variables; Familiarity; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Social and Collaborative Networks; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Power and Influence; Social Media

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01 Apr 2025
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

content to just neutralize opposition, they must turn passive stakeholders into active fans - especially when the venture is an innovation not yet familiar to the public. Transforming Transportation: Highland Electric Fleets The... View Details

07 Mar 2017
News

From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World

familiar with private enterprise and with strong ties with the business community, rather than a traditional academic. That’s how it all began, and the reason why they reached out to me.” On the value of the case method: “The case-study... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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Books: Brand New

fashion, status, community, and control.” The six entrepreneurs achieved this, Koehn found, by maintaining total familiarity with their product or service; learning from mistakes and adjusting quickly; distinguishing their offerings and... View Details

Keywords: Startbucks; HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Estee Lauder; John Heinz (MBA 1963); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 2002
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Pearson Hunt Remembered

also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes), a concept View Details

14 May 2013
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Fellow HBS Classmates Enriching the Internship Experience

our out-of-work time. I think relationships with HBS classmates are particularly rewarding for several reasons. First, we have known each other (in many cases) for almost an entire year. This degree of familiarity breeds a natural trust... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

17 Sep 2024
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The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

provide loans to international students at same rate as domestic students. Social life at HBS is, as expected, quite intense, and sometimes it was nice to just take a step back and reconnect with familiar home cultures. From day one I... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

behavior at the University of Pretoria in which she is currently enrolled. While Meyer is familiar with the demands of being a student - she holds a BA in sociology and communications from the University of South Africa and an M.Ed. in... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

else first. And for anyone prone to setting overly ambitious exercise goals in 2021, Beshears’ findings lend support for some familiar advice: Squeeze in exercise when it fits. Busy people can’t assume that every day will follow a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 May 2020
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Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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