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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
Slated for completion in 2020, the 500,000-square-foot SEC facility will serve more than 1,800 students, researchers, and faculty of Harvard’s fastest-growing school––the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)––and View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
And then—Don’t Shoot the Messenger.” Inanc Inan was prescient as he kicked off this month’s discussion by asking, “Where does the buck stop? (The) first ethical step (by Boeing’s CEO) would be to step away from the post to signal to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
benefit allied politicians. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-100.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
example, gifts under $1,000 to the HBS Fund added up to $1.8 million. Gifts of any size signal donors’ pride in and gratitude for their HBS experience, demonstrate their commitment to the HBS mission, and serve as a tangible vote of... View Details
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
pay heed to the signals they are sending. Investment Strategies is most directly applicable to students interested in pursuing careers in finance including mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Time Inc. as president of digital operations in 2016, the internet cheered. With stints at AOL and PopSugar, Wong was a respected veteran of the young digital media industry, and her hire signaled the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
subtle difference in perspective also has the potential to distort the agency's reliance on pure science in its approval of GMOs. In his working paper "Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Signaling and Regulatory Approval of... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms Authors:Tim Pollock and Ranjay Gulati Periodical:Strategic Organizations 5, no. 4 (November 2007). (A shorter version of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
the exceptions that scholars and policymakers had historically reserved from their embrace of open capital markets were ruled out of bounds. The norm of capital mobility was to be universal and unqualified. Deviation was a powerful signal... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
that they have.” He also adds that the extroverts in their studies seemed unaware that others perceive them in this light. The takeaway, Zlatev says, is for us all to be more aware of how we’re coming across to others in social situations and to make sure that... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rising dramatically over the past several decades. If rising inequality is a signal that more people are falling too low, the minimum wage feels like it is a way to provide a floor below which no family can fall. But that’s not always... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Because you may be competent and compatible, but if you don’t send signals that you are committed, your manager could worry that you will quit. Or you may be compatible and committed, but if you can’t do the job, none of that matters. Ng... View Details
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Folafolu Folowosele
Mesoamerica Energy, helped land owners obtain titles before the company leased property from them and gave them a fair share of the revenue generated from the wind turbines on their property. “To me, that was a strong signal on how to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
(i-lab). Doris and Sauer were a natural fit for these roles. In 1986, they left Lucasfilm to found Sonic Solutions, where they developed and marketed audio signal processing, professional sound editing, and later DVD and digital video... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
danger of core competence theory? How should we decide which activities to keep in-house and which to outsource? What’s the signal that an industry is about to commoditize, and how can we profit from that shift? How do we set strategy in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
policymakers avoid a repeat of that painful episode. Greenwood, Hanson, and colleagues have identified the signs that potentially signal trouble. Three years of rapid growth in credit and asset prices increased the odds of a crisis to 40... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think now we're learning more about a deeper level of talking and communicating, which is around connecting. And that's in the realm of something personal, where a leader View Details
Keywords: Zoom