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- 12 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
3 Facts About HBS Discussion Groups
Discussion groups meet each morning from 8:00-9:00am to help prepare for classes. People share different perspectives on the material and help each other prepare for the case method style of teaching and participation. Depending on the class, groups cover spreadsheet... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
difference between what is often called fraud versus “puffery” —general statements of opinion that people are supposed to reasonably interpret as not being factually true. It’s all the marketing ads we read on a day-to-day basis. Silicon... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in that context as either... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
faculty members and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a Dean’s designate for activities or questions not explicitly covered by the policy, or to request... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Green Bonds and Other Debt Instruments Featured Exercises Analyze characteristics and assess the performance of funds and fund managers 5 hrs Module 4 Measuring, Managing, and Accounting for Impact Interpret and analyze frameworks for... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare (IMLH) at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) for "Which Explanation Should I Choose? A Function Approximation Perspective to Characterizing Post hoc Explanations"... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-led growth strategies are providing the right answer. This note outlines a number of these concerns, ranging from the practical to the conceptual. It argues that an underlying problem has been the misguided interpretation of export... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- Research Summary
Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
survive to this day—in schools of law, medicine, and divinity, respectively—in the modem American university. The study of law in America today remains rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Roman and Anglo-American law, as systematized and View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
words, the feeling of getting an unanticipated bonus or penalty was more motivating to employees than actually getting a bonus or penalty they earned—perhaps because they interpreted it as a result of bias either for or against them by... View Details
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Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method
Executive Education participants learn to interpret and analyze information, drill into the root cause of issues, ask questions, listen to others' viewpoints, consider alternatives, and decide on a plan of action. Celebrating the Case... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
rapidly gained share in the U.S. market. Although radials represented a sharp break with existing tire technology, tire industry managers interpreted the new technology in terms of their pre-existing strategic world-view. Many Firestone... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
ecosystem and making you a more conscientious consumer of information. Starting with the questions you need to ask when using data for decision-making, this course will help you know when to trust your data and how to interpret the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
rationalizations for the failures. Specifically, managers attributed large failures to uncontrollable events outside the organization (e.g., the economy) and to the intervention of outsiders. Small failures were interpreted as flukes, the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
only on paper.” There were several criticisms of the fact that the research identified correlations, not causes. Norman Toy made the point by stressing the especially mischievous nature of the use of correlation in this case. In his words, “One View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
Measuring and interpreting efficiency along these higher aims can also be behaviorally compromised when measures have to be simplified or aggregated. Q: What is the potential impact of these behaviors on a company's supply chain... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
with, as many people have said of Benjamin Franklin. He was just so witty, knowledgeable, and downright interesting that you couldn't come away without feeling enriched. Weaving together the fascinating story of his life with an View Details
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
an answer do we need? What range would you expect given the industry or circumstance? What would happen if we changed the variables or assumptions in a particular way? How would the numbers change if situation y manifested itself? Why do it x way and not y way? View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead shareholder capitalism and broader... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
paper with C.K. Morewedge, "When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams" ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 2009). 2009 Michael I. Norton : Selected for the Marketing Science Institute's 2009 Young... View Details