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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

architecture in their own organizations. Slides Improving Performance with Operational Transparency Professor Ryan W. Buell (MBA 2007, DBA 2012) + More Info – Less Info Conventional wisdom suggests that the more contact an operation has... View Details

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

decisions with a friend. For organizations, greater transparency and fewer silos, among other things, can help (as opposed to such things as signing codes of conduct or undergoing training in ethics). How do we address these problems? Do... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finalist for the 2014 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review for "The Transparency Trap" (October 2014). Ethan S. Bernstein : Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

actually removed AI from their marketing and sales messages. While it might not make sense to lead with AI, there’s value in weaving it through the product presentation, especially when it comes to transparency and explaining the... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

them, do them differently, and supplement them with other activities that I discuss in the book. Also, required competencies are changing. Omnichannel buying makes the selling company more transparent to customers, who can “touch” that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

price transparency issues in the wedding industry. Through this process, we conducted customer interviews, devised many product iterations, developed two prototypes, and conducted both moderated and unmoderated user tests – all in one... View Details

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

It's a sad, quantitative fact that bribery runs so rampant in the world that it has become a Darwinian business tool. A July 2013 report from Transparency International finds that more than one in four people paid a bribe in the past... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

strong-arm suppliers and competitors As long as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate transparently and legally, I don’t think we need to worry. The speed with which innovation occurs and expands will almost certainly see competitors... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

majority and laggards. While instilling confidence is important, it’s equally important to be clear about how and where to get vaccinated and the convenience of the process. Simplicity and transparency in the enrollment process is... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

an inventory of the most important shared software and potential vulnerabilities and is the first step to understand more about these projects so that we can create tools and standards that result in trust and transparency in software.”... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

can find free information about the quality of learning in every school, county, and state in Brazil—with the hope that such transparency will help improve education throughout the country. In 2006, the foundation established the Lemann... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
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Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry

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10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

percent discount, it is not a matter of if but when the category economics will shift. “Can you be an office supply store if you do not sell paper?” With technology making both pricing and assortment choices transparent for the consumer,... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

brought greater transparency and more discipline and efficiency to an undisciplined, inefficient market. Unfortunately, there's no doubt that more and better information means it will be harder to be the alpha, as Professor Andre Perold... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

filters included glare-free desk lamps, airplane windows, optical devices, educational kits for demonstrating the principles of light polarization, Polariscopes to detect strains or stresses in glass and other transparent materials, and... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

the process, and I can’t wait to see the results. Barbara Littlefield (MBA 1988) Chairwoman and Lead Operating Officer, Resilient Infrastructure Group Collaborate Globally with Governments BIO “We all need to work to put together common to all, clear, fair, and View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation for “Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency in a Simple Labor Market” with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. Ranjay Gulati : Finalist for the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual... View Details

January 2024
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Winning Business at Russell Reynolds