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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In 15 minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal, financial, personal, and funeral documents. For... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
multi-brand retail format in the beauty and wellness space, and the fact that she was doing it with her daughter Adwaita (HBS MBA 2013) made it both exciting and meaningful. Still, she was the founder and with that came control over the most important decisions. While... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
exchange for taking on the risk of young companies in uncertain environments, venture capitalists receive board level oversight privileges, which range from approval of budgets and advice on product development to the right to replace the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
soliciting advice from her directors while projecting confidence. While preparing for the upcoming meeting, Bettina wonders: How should she structure and lead the meeting? How might her board react to her team's updates? What difficult... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
two-person venture into a global company valued at $1 billion, Rickenbach's willingness to take calculated risks has kept it at the leading edge of the CRO sector. Now, despite slowing demand for CRO services and against the advice of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
examples of successful and failed leaders, with stories to illustrate their experiences and the author's advice to readers who may face similar crises. Purchase this book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free, high-quality View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
poor countries need right now. Instead of more advice or another bag of rice, the poor should be given relief vouchers, says Eric Werker, assistant professor at Harvard University Business School. Purchase the article:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
not gain access to their diaries; they were told to recall their experiences from memory. After completing the questionnaire, all the veteran interns were asked to provide some advice to interns of the future. Zhang then hired 93 other... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
forthcoming Strategic Management Journal When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance? By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity. Anxiety, Advice, and the Ability to Discern: Feeling Anxious Motivates Individuals to Seek and Use Advice Authors:F. Gino, A. Wood, and M. Schweitzer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
diffusion of new technologies. A networked incubator can provide tremendous value to a start-up team through connections that help forge crucial strategic partnerships, recruit highly talented people, and obtain important advice from... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
environments, can they self-sort to find others?" asks Frost. "If we give people different kinds of content, are they going to navigate toward common interests? In a virtual space maybe they could actually find others by virtue of interacting in an... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
appears to owe more to management fads than to serious underperformance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54369 Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Seeker Beware: The Relational Costs of Advice-Seeker Decisions By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when and why people rely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance, published April 11 in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
longer-horizon payoffs and favoring shorter-term investments. Steinwender compares it to the advice a grandmother would give: When you hit a crisis, cut back on what you can but not on what you need. “It’s perfectly rational to do that,”... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
enough that they might be able to listen to more complex arguments. Relationships matter. Silverthorne: Words from leaders are important: some soothe, others inflame. What’s your advice to new leaders for setting the right tone? What... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne