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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
to return to their countries of origin....” Ben commented that “We have a need for skilled and unskilled labor here (in the U.S.) and we value inclusion and integration...... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- First Quarter 1996
- Article
Electronic Commerce: Building Blocks of New Business Opportunity
By: L. M. Applegate, C.W. Holsapple, R. Kalakota, F.J. Radermacher and A.B. Whinston
Applegate, L. M., C.W. Holsapple, R. Kalakota, F.J. Radermacher, and A.B. Whinston. "Electronic Commerce: Building Blocks of New Business Opportunity." Journal of Organizational Computing 6, no. 1 (First Quarter 1996): 1–10.
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Leading the Way
Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) is the retired chairman of the Boeing Company and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video... View Details
- Article
Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences
By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
Capraro, Valerio, Jillian J. Jordan, and Ben Tappin. "Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 94 (May 2021).
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Save the Dates
Students HBS June 9–10, 2004 2004 HBS Global Leadership Forum: “From the Commanding Heights to the Market: The Changing Face of Business”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
by Debora L. Spar (Harcourt) In her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, HBS... View Details
- September – October 2011
- Article
The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times
By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman
It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry
Kraiselburd, Santiago, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman. "The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times." Production and Operations Management 20, no. 5 (September–October 2011): 639–653.
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Save the Dates
Fall Reunions/MBA Classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978 HBS October 2–5, 2003 Fall Meeting of the HBSAA Board of Directors HBS October 17–18,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
up in class.” But Jan G countered, “With proper facilitation, the learning you mention, of valuing diverse experiences, thought patterns and viewpoints for View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Sweet Spot
the clock five days a week. An overnight shift produces hundreds of breakfast pastries and muffins. Later, production shifts to desserts — up to 700 petit pastries, pies, cakes, and dessert bars plus... View Details
- Blog
Reinventing the GMP Experience
and how they built relationships with other participants. For additional information on the GMP experience, watch The General Management Program Impact video featuring GMP... View Details
- October 23, 2013
- Article
Banyan Family Business Advisors On The Keys to Long-Term Resilience
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Family businesses have been found to excel in resilience during economic downturns compared to publicly-traded ones. This is attributed to their focus on resilience over performance. Key qualities of resilient family firms include managing low debt, practicing... View Details
Keywords: Performance Consistency; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Family Ownership; Family Business; Values and Beliefs; Business Strategy
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Banyan Family Business Advisors On The Keys to Long-Term Resilience." Family Wealth Report (October 23, 2013).
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Advancing the Mission
Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them. Together, the siblings cofounded... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
experimentation will improve performance over time. However, the benefits of experimentation vary. Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
the right question poorly," the authors note. "In this research we find that, at least in part, people value style over substance because View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Turkey is both European and Anatolian, and since the days of the Ottoman Empire, most Turks have not claimed any kinship to the Arab world. As an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
Entrepreneur, investor, and Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) on his new book about getting through the hardest part of any project, and two other picks about perseverance NEW View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
the CEO and founder of BandPage, an online service that allows musicians to post information and connect with fans. Their conversation touched on power dynamics,... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They... View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-097, February 2016.
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
example, they couldn’t determine the relative development costs of novel drugs relative to me too drugs; they could only note whether a project was pursued. For a real-life example View Details