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  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 19 Apr 2024
  • News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

(iStockphoto/FreshSplash) There seems to be limited interest in middle management or the managers that occupy such positions among those who study management today. Go to Amazon or Google, for example, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions

By: Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua Lev Krieger
We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the citation rate to their earlier,... View Details
Keywords: Reputation; Perception; Status and Position; Outcome or Result
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  • 18 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

The law, which is still being hashed out in court, requires manufacturers to say sugary drinks can lead to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay. New research from Harvard Business School suggests that even if San Francisco wins its court... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
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Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

In this discussion, we will address the industry's evident cyclicality, but more importantly, we will focus on significant long-term macroeconomic trends and their profound impact on the forces that drive the evolution of private capital.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

uniquely positioned to broaden the customer base for private-jet travel to their former clients: young, highly paid athletes and performers. By contrast, their research showed that the typical private-jet... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • Article

The Social Utility of Feature Creep

By: Debora V. Thompson and Michael I. Norton
Previous research shows that consumers frequently choose products with too many features that they later find difficult to use. Our research shows that this seemingly suboptimal behavior may in fact confer benefits when factoring in the social context of consumption.... View Details
Keywords: Impression Management; Social Influence; Conspicuous Consumption; Signaling; Product Features; Consumer Behavior; Information Technology; Experience and Expertise; Status and Position
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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance
  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

stakeholders to make both micro- and macro-level decisions today that will have net positive environmental and economic effects now and into the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power... View Details
Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services
  • Portrait Project

Wyatt Smith

dad's example of focused work and calculated risk-taking inspires me to positively impact others as a professional, father, husband, and man. In my life, there will be many... View Details
  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

tool, both to customers and to publishers, which see bookstores like BookHampton as a way to introduce new authors, who might otherwise have trouble climbing the Amazon rankings. All the changes have had a View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 12 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

on the other side stronger.” The courage to acknowledge vulnerability can strengthen the position of leaders. Employees don’t expect leaders to have all the answers, but they do expect them to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want to see View Details
  • April 2014
  • Article

Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
Organizations often use non-monetary awards to incentivize performance. Awards may affect behavior through several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker... View Details
Keywords: Social Comparison; Awards; Optimal Expectactions; Zambia; Status and Position; Performance Expectations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Zambia
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