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  • Blog

The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

the classroom, organize small-group meetings, or simply take a break. By design, the building's architecture relates both to the traditional structures of the main HBS campus and also to the twenty-first century spirit of nearby Tata Hall. Inside, the Chao Center... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

service’s heavy users, who were looking for a way to organize all their tweets into subjects. Nintendo consulted non-gamers to design its Wii console, to make it easy for everyone to use. When Honda asked owners of its Ridgeline pickup... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • Web

Executive Education - Entrepreneurship

Executive Education Given the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship within organizations, our programs are designed to help seasoned executives transform their thinking and vision in a dynamic global... View Details
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Your Alumni Community - Alumni

MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration); Gunnar Trumbull (Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration) 01 Jun 2025 | HBS Magazine Forward Thinking Re: Susan Myers (MBA 1978); Richard Myers (MBA 1984); By: Jen... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

Administration. “Part of that is affecting what people in other countries perceive your country to be.” What does it take to create Denmark’s reputation for modern design or Bali’s Eat Pray Love-style picture of tropical centeredness?... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2542242   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 215-037 Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

other research here , Adi’s other research here , and Jonathan’s other research here . More Info Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era By: Samuel G. Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein , Adi Sunderam & Eric Zwick OCT 2021 The authors develop models that speak to the goals... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

key transitions that shape leaders' careers, specifying processes and moderating conditions for identity transformation. Implications for designing experiences and training that take identity processes into account are drawn. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Resources - Alumni

- Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Design Thinking & Innovation - Dean Srikant Datar Launching Tech Ventures - Professor Jeff Bussgang Negotiation Mastery - Professor Michael Wheeler KEY DATES... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

Presented with a goal to build a car "under 2,000 pounds and under $2,000" by 1970, employees overlooked safety testing and designed a car where the gas tank was vulnerable to explosion from rear-end collisions. Fifty-three people died as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

less well-known dynamic of customer differentiation and its effect on the way businesses are structured and run is examined in a recent Harvard Business School working paper, "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

has been called IT agility. Unfortunately, we have little understanding of the antecedents of IT agility, specifically with respect to the choices that a firm makes when designing its portfolio of software applications. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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  • Article

When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat
Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments
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  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

as well as manufacturers.” To study the safety of a wide variety of medications, the researchers collected FDA data between 2006 and 2018, focusing on 396 new drugs. Among this pool were therapies that had received the FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

an emerging market. The prescription of this chapter is to think about a more ambitious role for such markets: establish a strategic business unit, designated as a "disruptive innovation hub," that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Others identified factors accounting for too much focus. Yadeed Lobo said: "I think focus in organizations might have its roots in competitive strategy, intense focus on differentiation or cost consciousness." Edward Hare put it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

from SoMa to Sand Hill Road. This weighed on me as I applied to and decided to matriculate at HBS. It is odd when you think about it: what better example could there be of herd-like thinking than suggesting... View Details
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

growth of competing companies or countries. Firms can also process and use unstructured data, such as text from documents. “There is so much data we can use,” Chung says. “For example, average temperature—you may think it has nothing to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding