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25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

are not aligned. "CEOs should be working with both constituencies, insiders and outsiders," says Sadun. "However, if there are governance issues, there might be the possibility that the CEO is in the outside world more for his or her View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

rather than misdeeds and malfeasance.— Lynn S. Paine Moreover, new issues are constantly coming to the fore as a result of changes in technology, society, and politics. For instance, data privacy was not a major issue until the late 1980s... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

part of your submission script or by including the PATH assignment in your .bashrc login script. Additionally, one could write a personal or team software module, which can be used in coordination with the system-wide software modules.... View Details

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Complete Paper Award at the 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Ensemble IV: Creating Instrumental Variables from Ensemble Learners for Robust Statistical Inference” with Gordon Burtch, Mochen Yang, and Gediminas Adomavicius. Seth... View Details

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using U.S. patent and census View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

customer purchasing decisions based on layouts that change from store to store. “It’s around us now, and it’s growing.” "If something is very novel, there is little data around it to use." Thomke first explored the phenomenon in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

Rembrand Koning and colleagues. With women representing only 13 percent of patent holders in the United States, the lack of female-driven inventions may well be having a direct impact on health outcomes, Koning says. If fewer inventors are focused on, say, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

However, higher wages could also be unrelated to theft if honesty only depended on the workers' moral values, if workers were unaware of wages paid by the competition, or if they overlooked wage deviations by reassessing the value of their own inputs. For the study,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

2021
Working Paper

Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin

We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details

Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Human Capital

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01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

of 2023. It was our first time gathering in person since the pandemic. Everyone was masked, but the energy in the room—the nerves, the excitement, the happiness—was palpable. That is a moment that I know every one of those students will... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the company's Boston office and take a look at the latest View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

tools to improve strategy execution within your team, department, or organization. “I was impressed by how well the course material fit my personal challenges and goals at work, and how easy it was to use the material to improve my team’s... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

algorithms—much like a dating app—to match students with interested alumni for thoughtful discussions about roughly 200 topics related to one’s personal life, family, or work. Ultimately, the goal is to connect alumni to one another and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

three-year value-creation plan 6-8 hrs Module 5 Project Week Identify a performance or opportunity gap within your division, unit, or organization and develop an action plan to address it. Identify personal leadership development... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Burning: Analyzing the Impact of Brand Sponsorship on Social Influencers.” 2020 Eva Ascarza : Selected as a Marketing Science Institute Scholar in 2020. Jill J. Avery : Winner of the 2020 Case Centre Award in the Marketing Category for “Predicting Consumer Tastes with... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

primarily because you find it interesting, enjoyable, satisfying, or personally challenging. Our research has shown that, unfortunately, a non-conducive work environment can undermine intrinsic motivation. Your immediate manager plays a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by disintermediate... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

while others will realize entrepreneurship is not for them. And so, we’ve evolved our mission so that it’s not just about people founding a venture, but also about developing the skill set and mindset for bringing innovative, entrepreneurial thinking to whatever... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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