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- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
candidates into development. However, several questions related to the integration of Aurora into Vertex were still unresolved, the most pressing being Aurora's major collaboration with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). Were venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
selected was the only candidate considered. Far too few companies conduct reference checks; far too many rely on gut reactions when judging qualifications and cultural fit. Hardly anyone considers whether View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
eligibility for a severance package valued at $47 million? “In the old days, your personal behavior was not seen as relevant to your role as a corporate leader, but now, if you’re a candidate for CEO of a large company, your personal... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
from a job—or several jobs. They then introduced the best candidates to Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page, of HBS's Educational Technology Services, who went on location to film interviews with the laid-off employees and their families. The... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
Urbana-Champaign. The team's research suggested the contrary: that the higher a woman rose to power, the less likely she might be to help other women do the same. According to their studies, female tokens in "high-prestige workgroups" showed less of a preference for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
though, Confucianism teaches that women should have access to education, which, in addition to democratization, likely has helped to increase the number of qualified female candidates for management positions. Deep Talent Pool Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
primaries, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to the electorate, a theme that had been on the sidelines of U.S. political discourse for decades. Trump, in particular, played into the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909028 Insulting Andrew Harvard Business School Case 909-025 This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
See Evil or Engage in It. The paper—written with HBS colleague Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration; and Angus Hildreth, a doctoral candidate studying organizational behavior at UC Berkeley’s Haas School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
cost reduction wave could eliminate her job. For the one in Bangalore, the most rewarding work is probably done in London, and her earnings are likely to be lower than those of her London counterparts. With the arrival of new candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Glaeser, Kominers, and Harvard doctoral candidate Andrew Hillis further honed the algorithm to develop a tool for the City of Boston. After officials were asked to identify health violations of the most concern, the researchers and Boston... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
authors made sure that it was more candid than congratulatory. "The Dean made it clear early on that what really happened here is what should be in the case, because one way to make the future of this institution better is to talk... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
candidates and choose collaborators who reframed their distress as passion compared to those who did not. Expresser gender did not moderate these effects. Results suggest that in cases when distress expressions cannot or should not be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
School PhD candidate Samuel Hanson, and Harvard University Professor Jeremy C. Stein take on this question in a recent working paper titled A Comparative Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity. Their paper asks how the government... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
substantially shifts how the company views individuals. Within this framework, Mary Caroline Tillman, the case protagonist, is faced with an evaluation decision between two candidates who have different competencies, past experience, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window of opportunity to develop drug candidates toward known targets with known mechanisms of actions that would allow it to become first-in-class in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
in a relationship where the all-powerful employer insists on a one-sided result. The results came from an experiment that simulated a second-round job interview. Some 124 undergraduates from five schools in the northeast United States participated. They played the role... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
2016 announcement ramified differently. Days later, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump referenced the relocation in a Facebook post. Soon, Carrier’s plan became a touchtone to Trump’s anti-globalization and anti-free trade campaign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne