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- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code
Partners and families play an important role at HBS. Today, we want to celebrate the partners who have been an instrumental part in adding value to the lives of HBS students and their community. Together, HBS MBA student Frances and her... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-027.pdf Assess, Don't Assume, Part I: Etiquette and National Culture in Negotiation Author:James K. Sebenius Abstract When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
firms that historically issued frequent guidance, breaks in guidance following CEO turnovers are relatively permanent and are potentially attributable to firm-initiated changes in guidance policy. Breaks following CFO turnovers, however, likely reflect uncertainty on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
services and become part of the formal financial system, is considered a key prerequisite for lifting these populations out of poverty and for driving economic growth. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
software. And many hardware vendors trumpet their ability to execute these algorithms or store their output quicker, faster and cheaper. New algorithms are seductive in exactly the same way features on a new car are seductive. But let's... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
ramping up production of a car is more challenging than printing an extra run of a book. But after its initial error, VW made some smart decisions to mitigate the damage. First, the company rewarded their best dealers by making the scarce... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
newspaper sales, with little foundation in what's really important to know about a school. Q: What do you do in your spare time, if you have any? A: Sailing is an early passion that I continue to enjoy. When I have the opportunity to... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pseudo-Set Framing By: Barasz, Kate, Leslie John, Elizabeth A. Keenan, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Pseudo-set framing—arbitrarily grouping items or tasks together as part of an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
John E. Jonsson Texas Instruments, 1951–1958 Henry B. Joy Packard Motor Car Company, 1905–1916 K Henry J. Kaiser Kaiser Industries, 1914–1956 Bruce E. Karatz KB Home, 1986–Present Mitchell P. Kartalia Square D Company, 1968–1983 Ewing M.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
is the capability to show full motion video, which some people will find compelling. This is going to be an increasing part of the advertising world, but it's still a pretty small percentage. Beyond search advertising, marketers are using... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
citing the examples of Motorola, Southwest Airlines, Revlon cosmetics, Hewlett-Packard, and MTV. Good ideas are not hard to come by. The more complicated part is to harness the diminishing supply of capital. But capital can still find its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
ethically lax cultures are another feature of the more recent cases as well as the earlier ones. Perhaps the most striking recent example is Odebrecht, the Brazilian conglomerate caught up in Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato in Portuguese),... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
hopes he might find some early stage treatments that might prove helpful for his son. Rodakis had a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and had spent the early part of his career as a medical venture capitalist. His week would often... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Yaoxin Ding
sick from the city’s endemic air pollution. “That really inspired me to create cleaner cars,” Yaoxin says. “Tailpipe emissions are a major cause of pollution; I wanted to be part of developing a better solution.” Yaoxin came to the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)
transmission on a car works great. Lying by omission involves holding back relevant information—for example, by failing to mention any information about a faulty transmission. The researchers conducted two pilot studies and six... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman