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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
situation. Students with particularly positive experiences often remark that they felt integrated into the work of the team and that people in the organization cared about what they were working on.” To replicate this integration,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
balancing act is perhaps too eloquent; it was more like juggling a few bowling balls while climbing up 10 flights of stairs. I would focus 100% on my internship with an LA-based fintech startup during the day, and then 100% on FinGig in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
also one of fear that the Western world may at any point associate these acts with the Arab or Muslim culture. Those who acted so cowardly have nothing to do with our culture. The overwhelming majority of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Management. Taylor and Francis, 2011 Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
obtaining both good and bad news from their school-tied firms, but perhaps as a tacit agreement, acting only on the positive news." Importantly, the research takes into account stock returns in the years before and after the October 2000... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
board. He first demurred, saying he knew nothing about health care or hospitals. Yes, said McArthur in his genial way, but you know the community. After thinking about it over the weekend, Connors agreed. “So I became the rookie trustee,”... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
build an informal network of relationships with executives and business managers, which allowed them to resist being stereotyped as either compliance champions or business partners. Instead they created and shaped the perception of their role which was of their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
should be a blessing in negotiation, of course. But picking the best possible deal takes careful planning. The set of techniques outlined here will put you on the right path. Beyond Batnas According to basic negotiation theory, Jim's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
feet at all may rank among his greatest achievements. The simple acts of standing and walking represent triumph for Massie, as does the fact that he is even alive today. Fittingly, his life's work is all about “standing up,” as he... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-070 Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care—patient-focused care—intended to increase quality and reduce costs by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Mehra (MBA 2009) Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009) Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) Brian Elliot (MBA 2008) Friendfactor — SEF 2010 honoree Friendfactor is a social-action nonprofit that aims to educate and engage the straight... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
a company. There’s this myth that if you want to go start a company, you just pitch on your HBS credentials and walk into a VC office and walk out with a huge check. That’s 1,000 percent not the case. Sierra and I have built this company while working other jobs... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
both are true, and that careful consideration of all the options can be done by our unconscious mind. Both conscious and unconscious thought have strengths and weaknesses. There are decisions where we believe conscious thought outperforms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
to help organizations better access, integrate, and leverage the talents and insights of their employees. An earlier career as an organizational change consultant led me to realize how many thoughtful, caring individuals were stymied in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details