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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion
In early May, I embarked on a journey to Seoul, South Korea, accompanied by 70 fellow Harvard Business School classmates. Our purpose? To culminate our first-year studies through the FIELD Global Immersion program. Throughout this transformative experience, I... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
barriers tend to get in the way: lower-performing employees are too reticent to ask for help, or higher-performing employees are reluctant to give it. “This suggests that performance is more malleable and can be changed if you give people the right environment to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “From Conceptual to Commercial: How Novel Innovations Gain Market Traction.” Rebecca A. Karp : Won the 2020 William H. Newman Award from the Academy of Management... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
& Young's New Jersey Entrepreneur Of The Year, Technology 2013 SHI International reaches $5 billion in revenue Thai Lee has an extraordinary ability to take the long view. After earning a degree in economics and biology from Amherst College, she returned home to Korea... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
misleading guides for the welfare effects of alternative fiscal policies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-113.pdf Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank Authors:Bradley R. Staats and F. Gino Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
New Video: Books@Baker Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee Click to watch. Some companies gain advantage by commanding premium prices. Others lean on their world-class talent. But, a small slice of companies manages to do both—and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
groups: (1) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services, (2) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services except credit, or (3) a control group. After one year, DrumNet services led to an increase in production of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
brands goes to digital media. What happens when products with sensors generate such volumes of customer experience data that advertising may be a less significant factor?” Jeff Polzer, of the Organizational Behavior faculty, introduced... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully appreciate the work going on behind the scenes, causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, leaders... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
achievement. In the 1960s, however, it began to self-destruct by diversifying, first in attempting to compete with IBM in the production of mainframes and then by becoming a conglomerate, purchasing, among others, Hertz Rent A Car,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
be displaced in large numbers. Those job losses will be partially offset by job gains for machine learning specialists and emerging jobs like prompt engineers. But, once companies learn how to exploit generative AI, we can anticipate... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
Richard Feder maintains that the subscription model will gain momentum on the Internet as the memory of free service fades and the utility of new service increases. The response gives hope for those hoping to utilize the subscription... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
bigger than just creating the market. They need to epitomize the market. “If they become the cognitive referent, they gain an unequal share of the gains from doing so” “The goal is not only to make sure that... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
increased job churn (which will occur), with no significant gain or loss of jobs. The problem generally is that the benefits of globalization flow largely to investors and consumers while workers bear a disproportionate share of the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
experiences are enhanced for everyone involved. There are three barriers that can prevent us from productively engaging: 1) not being able to help, 2) not knowing how to help, and, 3) not believing our help is important. Organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
reassuring," Sadun says. Likewise, time spent with insiders was strongly correlated with productivity increases. For every 1 percent gain in time spent with at least one insider, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details