School Choice - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

over and over” Gross, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research, reports his findings in Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production. (Gross will join the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

worth using. But today, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research collaborators, "not invented here" is becoming a badge of honor—and more than that, a source of competitive advantage. To design the 787... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

majority, arrived in Texas classrooms last fall, a new round of fiery rhetoric erupted. And while the Texas curriculum fight may have been the loudest, similar battles have played out in California, Colorado, and Oklahoma, as each state debated guidelines to define... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS... View Details

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

The essay attempts to answer the question, “What consequences did the spread of the internet have for geographical location of economic activity?” Harvard Business School Working Knowledge asked Greenstein to expand on several points from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

supposed to keep “trying on” different jobs and companies for the rest of our careers. 2. Making a career change isn’t just a one-step choice that you make. Rather, a career change is a series of trying different things “on for size” in... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

Expressing gratitude, Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, said the two gifts will allow the School to continue to innovate to meet student needs. “These gifts will help fund a new... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

documents a role for debt financing related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects and how this impacts optimal financing design. We further highlight the strong interaction between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

and see to have the least amount of variety in their product line. After all, if the imitators decide to stand back and observe what is most successful, wouldn't they choose to copy just a few, choice products? Conversely, it would seem... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

of the things they think you need to know about the HBS/HKS joint degree. It's a three year, integrated program Taniel: Coming to HBS/HKS was an easy choice when I learned that my experience would not be bifurcated. Instead, it truly is... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School Introduction to Dynamic Teaming Show Hide Details Modules Psychological Safety Inclusion Tools for Teaming Failing Well 35-40 hrs Term 1 Course - 4 Modules... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

restrict their career choices upon graduation. This is particularly true for younger students, women, those from outside the United States, and students whose early career paths have not enabled them to reduce their undergraduate loans.... View Details

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

directly from the airport to catch our Section J dance at Ekta, the annual HBS South Asian show. There was also the time when Professor Jon Jachimowicz sat and listened to me agonize over my summer internship choices and gave me valuable... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Columbia Business School, and Jee-Eun Shin, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The paper urges managers to carefully consider “the spillover effects” when designing compensation contracts to... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

communication techniques 6-8 hrs Module 4 Leader as Architect: Designing to Deliver Value Understand the critical design choices to align the people, systems and structure, and culture in your division, unit, or organization to deliver... View Details

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

BrochetHarvard Business School Case 110-029 This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a... View Details