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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
glorious failure. I figured we would either turn it into a national chain or drive it into the ground trying,” he reflects. “In reality, the most likely scenario is the one that played out. “The original business plan vision of Finale... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
exploit mature products and markets (e.g., mainframe computers, middleware). Research and Relevance: Implications of Pasteur's Quadrant for Doctoral Programs and Faculty Development Authors:Michael Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
unique opportunity to study strategy in the making when she headed to the company's Denmark headquarters last year. The case study The LEGO Group: Envisioning Risks in Asia, coauthored with HBS research associate Dominique Hamel, vividly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
19th-century America that exists nowhere else,” says Special Collections Librarian Timothy Mahoney. “That’s why researchers come from far and wide to use it.” A scholar might research women-owned boarding... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
there is actually no systematic evidence on this subject. Given that dearth of evidence, I adopted the research strategy of picking an interesting sector and zooming in on a particularly interesting case within it, and then generalizing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
you've lost ground on a project. As a pair, progress and setbacks are the main differentiators of the best and worst days." Small Wins Unfortunately, the researchers found that the negative effect of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being admitted to the MBA program and the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
of your humanity. “I offered three ways people can build resilience during these times,” he says. “First, start each day with a two-minute morning practice to ground and center your minds. Write down and answer these: “I will let go... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Prosocial Identity Reduces Prosocial Behavior Authors:Adam M. Grant, Andrew Molinsky, Joshua D. Margolis, Melissa Kamin, and William Schiano Periodical:Journal of Applied Social Psychology 39, no. 2 (2009): 319-349 Abstract Considerable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship generated... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
or any other competitive or aggressive physical activity. This aligns with the fact that half of the sample considered daily meditation or prayer a crucial grounding element of their self-care. Connecting socially, safely. Nearly all CEOs... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
emotion regulation and utilitarian decision making. November 2014 Journal of Marketing Research Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making By: Karmarkar, Uma R., Baba Shiv, and Brian Knutson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
negotiations can affect interaction processes and how negotiations can be not only a solution to, but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in negotiations. We develop View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points out, the choices of these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
to develop new models and tools. “Traditional backward-looking models based on historical trends will no longer be reliable,” Stiroh said. “We'll need to develop a more forward-looking approach that’s grounded in scenario-based analysis.”... View Details
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unexpected connections between fiction and finance. Complete Table of Contents December 2023 The Imposter Among Us The uneasy truth about faking it, making it, and sometimes feeling like a phony Wide Horizon In the wake of his son’s autism diagnosis, investor John... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
or even beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Cent’Anni: The Sinatra Legend at 100 by Richard Muti (MBA 1971) (North Jersey Media Group) This study of the most fascinating entertainer of the 20th century isn’t an academic tome, although it is extensively View Details