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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

management as its core educational organizing framework. The Required Curriculum has historically had a core course in general management and The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) provides a powerful context in which to learn about general... View Details

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leadership Principles ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Leadership Principles $1,850 Next 6-week session starts February... View Details

2024
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Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift

By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo and Kris Ferreira

Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). These outliers often originate from covariate shift,... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions

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05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

preparation—before the negotiation even gets under way—can lessen its impact. State at the outset of talks that you have worked to understand the other party's perspective, needs, and interests, but that you recognize—and hope that they do, too—that a lot of View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

02 Mar 2009
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When Goal Setting Goes Bad

Maurice Schweitzer. Q: Are goals by themselves a problem, or is it the way we use them? A: When we can so easily predict the dysfunctional behavior that will ensue, I would argue that it is the goals themselves. Far too often, people want... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2008
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Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

was a big piece of that. Because India did not follow a similar extreme path it didn't need to embrace FDI quite as much. So that's a reasonable reason to expect low FDI levels. On the negative side, however, India, with its indigenous entrepreneurs, still engages in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2012
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firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2016
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Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

conditions possible for students to learn and perform well in their school activities and tests,” Gino says. “Often these debates do not carefully consider the influence of external factors that teachers or parents can’t control.” An... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Sep 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)

realize that what you’re experiencing is not uniquely special, because others have struggled the way you’ve struggled. That understanding brings so much strength and resilience. Every single time we’ve invented a social medium, we’ve had to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; whistle blower; Facebook; leadership; social media

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via nonpecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Machine Learning and Human Capital:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

place, while the results of that innovation leads to learning that reshapes the strategy. Lean Strategy enables company builders to pursue viable opportunities, stay focused, and align the entire organisation while supporting front-line... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

13 May 2013
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How to Spot a Liar

having lied in negotiations, and everyone believes they've been lied to in these contexts," Malhotra says. "We may be able to improve the situation if we can equip people to detect and deter the unethical behavior of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jun 2020
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Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

has raised both excitement and significant funding, building a successful cloud kitchen has proved easier said than done. In dozens of interviews, we learned that even the most sophisticated data users like Uber Eats have struggled to... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

18 Jan 2016
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Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

effect of toxic workers, whose behavior tends to rub off on coworkers over time. If a company keeps a toxic worker, managers need to be on “red alert,” since coworkers have an increased propensity to become toxic themselves, Minor... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

07 Jul 2011
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So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

that "Where I believe we need more than ever to be strident and more fixed is in our intolerance of unacceptable behavior by our leaders." Both commitment and adaptability have their place. Jeffrey Cufaude reminded us that Jim... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Aug 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a... View Details