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- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
responding more quickly and effectively to the pandemic than their government was, demonstrating the faith that consumers have in their brands and the companies that stand behind them. 86 percent of surveyed consumers view their brands as... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
left us with the interesting question of whether, to the extent common sense reflects what has worked in the past, its overuse reduces our acceptance of change? Does common sense impede change? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges translate into large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring to an otherwise similar population. Using these peculiarities of the Argentine setting, we argue that there... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Startupland Racial Bias in Startupland Ethical Considerations in Startupland Featured Exercises Classify VC questions and craft responses to minimize the effect of gender biases Create an impact statement summarizing how you hope to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate culture all need to View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to their clients, the author has found... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
in the School's Business History Group to reflect on Chandler's legacy and to share personal memories. To listen to this interview with professor Richard Tedlow, click on the triangular play button below. The Macromedia Flash plug-in is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
periodically raises concerns about audit-industry concentration and suggests ways to boost growth of smaller firms. The consolidation raises the issue of how the surviving big auditors and the nation's accounting regulators will manage their relationship and what the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
upside down." Could we learn more about leadership by studying followership? Is leadership really about followership? What do you think? Original Article The flood of writing about leadership continues. It reflects our fascination... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
later? At least in some cases, the answer is yes, according to Harvard Business School researchers who tested the effects of highlighting a product’s trade-offs with almost 400,000 customers of Australia’s largest bank. MoonSoo Choi Most... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
information available, history, experience, the number of deciders, and so forth. Nevertheless, several comments reflected an uneasy fondness for a good dose of intuition in the mix. Guy Gould-Davies' comment was particularly insightful:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Additionally, wearing a heavy backpack affected participants' behavior. Specifically, it led them to be more likely to choose healthy snacks over guilt-inducing ones and boring tasks over fun ones. It also led participants to cheat less. Importantly, self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences in experience across the entire team) and intrapersonal team diversity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
a Baker Scholar), he never envisioned a future in academia. It did not take long for his plans to change. "During spring semester of my first year, I reflected on what I had seen in the classroom," says Wasserman, who arrived at HBS with... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
firm specializing in improvisational collaboration and communication in high-performance teams. In their case, "Miles Davis: Kind of Blue", they reflect on the beauty of the music as well as the unusual story behind its... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
protagonists, we will share how case authors opted to describe and write about women leaders, their decisions, and the effects of those decisions on the dialogue between text and learner. Together we can View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
interplay of these emotions and inter-individual attention differences at each point in time during exposure. Surprise and joy effectively concentrate attention and retain viewers. But importantly, the level rather than the velocity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
very quickly ... It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right.'" “It happens very quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
research, you identified 209 platform failures between 1995 and 2015 and about 45 successful firms for the same period. What are drivers of success? Yoffie: The most important driver of success is network effects. Network effects create... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace