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- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently answered these and other questions about his work, workouts,...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
opportunities for human development are key to regenerating a middle class on which the US Constitution depends, I was surprised that there wasn’t a greater sense of urgency in many of the comments. Alan Levy led the enthusiasts with the...
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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
doesn't mean you always agree—hopefully you don't," she said. "There is a need to push each other, but also to know your goals are the same at the end of the day." Their vision becomes your vision, Fagnan said. "I...
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by Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
you're a trader, for example, you have to trade, you have to lead, and you have to manage. You have three jobs." One way leadership of a financial firm differs from others is in the emphasis that must be placed in recruiting and...
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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
the true value of those customers has always been a challenge. This paper develops a network model to estimate the long-term impact of each additional free customer on a company's profits, factoring in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its...
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- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
experiments. Booking.com conducts thousands of tests every month. Evidence from a test always trumps executive opinion. Even the failures that tests often produce are regarded as opportunities for learning rather than costly mistakes. The...
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- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings...
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by Avery Forman
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
reserves of emotional awareness, which they apply to themselves and the people they are trying to influence. From this perspective, it seems to me that if you’re always on a hard-charging default drive, then...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
have to wait in pain for 8 months for a hip replacement can get it tomorrow, at much lower expense. People with excruciating dental pain can get it fixed, cost effectively, much quicker. And patients who need a kidney transplant and have to be View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
Commonly used free and open source software (FOSS) is one of the most significant technological trends of the decade. After all, 80-90 percent of a typical application contains FOSS components. And that trend is only increasing with its...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
"These are massive projects involving some of the largest companies in the world. One challenge we'll be facing is managing a highly distributed, complex Web services environment outside the firewall while maintaining security...
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- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
would eventually drive people away, the sites have an incentive to steer users to the products that yield them the highest margins—which may not always coincide with the ones that best correspond to users'...
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by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
In past issues of this newsletter, we have highlighted a variety of psychological biases that affect negotiators, many of which spring from a reliance on intuition. Of course, negotiators are not always...
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by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
its operating companies. Two weeks after the kickoff event—three fabulous days of inspirational talks by inventors, creators, and consultants—each attendee received a big box with the words "Tool Kit" on the front. It was filled...
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by Nick Morgan