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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
precision of these estimates. The intuition behind one mechanism is slightly ironic: in trying to update optimally, Bayesian agents overweight information of which they overestimate the precision and underweight in the opposite case. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
do since I was a little kid. When I was younger, I thought engineering, math, and science were most important and that the rest didn’t matter. Now I realize exactly the opposite is true. Engineering is important if you want to make... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
research points out that this is a mistake. For example, both India and China often defended policies of requiring multinationals to have local partners by arguing that this policy encouraged technology transfer. However, this policy may have in fact had the View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
some may see such innovations as threatening the role of the teacher in the classroom, Narayanan says the opposite in fact is true. It requires an experienced professor to design such an intricate course and anticipate not only right... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A research team found the View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
"reliability" and increase "relevance," partly due to their tendency to propose fair-value methods. We find opposite results for FASB members affiliated with the Democratic Party, although only when excluding a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
(MBA 2020), Director of Network Intelligence at Volta Charging "When I started my search for a job in the climate space, I was worried that my criteria were too narrow and there wouldn't be many interesting roles for someone with my background. I quickly found the... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
infrastructure. That has a positive impact on the price of stock of companies that will benefit from this spending, such as those that specialize in materials, for example. That said, there are some opposite forces at work, too. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
didn't. He had been given the rule of thumb—hire people who can scale, and fire them if they don't—but he didn't know how to do that in real time. (In fact, he gave Majmudar the opposite advice at one point—hire people who will be loyal... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
researchers say. "It wasn't authentic," Deighton says. "You really want to try to cultivate the opposite of that in the culture of your marketing team." Social media messages can also backfire when brands try too hard to be youthful and... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
opposite end, they think they're too quiet and shy—and both want to improve the way they handle themselves in their negotiations," Mohan says. "After seeing their results as compared to their peers over a few negotiations,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
(MBA 2020), Director of Network Intelligence at Volta Charging "When I started my search for a job in the climate space, I was worried that my criteria were too narrow and there wouldn't be many interesting roles for someone with my background. I quickly found the... View Details
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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
director from a diverse background) Companies also must annually disclose diversity statistics about the composition of their boards on measures including sexual orientation identification, gender, race, and ethnicity. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) approved... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunity for success; and (4) perhaps most damning, the original evidence that the courts relied upon to conclude that Section 203 gave bidders a meaningful opportunity for success was seriously flawed-so flawed, in fact, that even this original evidence supports... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
structure shapes performance in problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both search for information and search for solutions. Our results show that the effect of network clustering is opposite for these two important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and decision making at the top. Managers take note. Flattening can lead to exactly the opposite effects from what it promises to do. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
difficult situation in which President George W. Bush finds himself today. In the book we examine the President's missteps that turned tremendous widespread support into overwhelming opposition for his Iraq war. A major failing of current... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
on at other levels. Understanding these interactions is critical to devising good influence strategies. 5. Linked games. Many influence games also have both value-net and public interest components. A merger, for example, needs government approval; it may also elicit... View Details