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  • 2025
  • Book

Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

By: Alison Wood Brooks
We all struggle with difficult conversations, but we're often not very good at easy ones either. Though we do it all the time, conversation is one of the most complex, demanding, and delicate of all human tasks, rife with possibilities for misinterpretation and... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Patents; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Science-Based Business; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Biotechnology Industry
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  • Research Summary

Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

during the challenges ahead—or give them up at your company’s peril. Yes, it will be tough, especially when competing profit targets and employee demands in the new work models vie for priority. But you can protect those gains if you... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

New research sheds light on implications of using politically correct and incorrect speech and identifies five techniques to increase persuasiveness and diffuse conflict. Insights from two recent studies in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Person Page

Press / Media

By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

corporate managers use information provision to encourage subsidiaries' adoption of advanced management practices. Focusing on the distribution of expertise across subsidiaries, we propose that corporate managers elect an information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

An Interview with Associate Director, Phillip Andrews

What did you do before you came to CPD? Before I joined the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team, I spent two years as a case researcher working with faculty to develop and write business case studies for use in the HBS... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Judging Criteria - Alumni

New Venture Competition Judging Criteria 26ms NVC region leads and club selection committees, Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and appointed regional & global judges will evaluate application entries. The following criteria will be View Details
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

and administrative costs into the cost of serving individual customers. Either they treat all such costs as fixed-period costs and don't drive them to the customer level, or they use high-level, inaccurate methods, such as allocating a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • Web

Networking Opportunities - Recruiting

company build relationships with students to reach your recruiting goals. Networking Events Network with Alumni Network with Alumni Insights & Advice 13 Mar 2025 Shoma Simkin Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation... View Details
  • Web

Prizes & Benefits - Alumni

New Venture Competition Prizes & Benefits 13ms Cash Prizes Winner $75,000 Runner-Up $25,000 Crowd Favorite $5,000 Sponsors Baker Library is a lifetime resource for alumni, offering research help and access to premium resources. Our expert... View Details
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

impact While many of these challenges are not new, the data strengthens the case for action. Indeed, the crisis has renewed pressure on the US to develop new models and expand existing pathways that can open... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • Web

Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environmental regulation on business by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. Since then, Professor Porter and the Institute have continued to explore how new government regulations, as well as... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

Motivating employees takes more than carrots and sticks—it hangs on making them aware of those incentives and deterrents, according to new research. Companies, governments, and institutions across the globe spend countless billions on... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

and kindness, to instill dignity and confidence. It’s not just writing a check. And as much as people say ‘Don’t take it personally,’ of course it’s personal. There’s so much at stake. For a founder, this is it: This is their life.” It’s personal for Enan as well.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • Profile

Nika Duan

transformations with you. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A detective! I definitely read too many Nancy Drew novels and loved the combination of solving puzzles and delivering justice. What is your favorite childhood memory? Growing up in China,... View Details