Signaling - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

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

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

said. "If you look at companies like Cisco and others that depend less on R&D, you'll see they have taken a different model in the new economy. They essentially said, 'We will use the innovation in the marketplace, and we will View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

relationship between the successful use of humor and status is mediated by perceptions of confidence and competence. The successful use of humor signals confidence and competence, which in turn increases the joke teller’s status.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy" signal and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

more than most. What they own, how they dress, what they do. In other words, their consumption behavior becomes an important signaling device to attract efficiently the right set of new friends and acquaintances. It's not so much a matter... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

26 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library

immigrant,” said Chukwulebe. “The piece that we can all do on an individual level is continue to grow and educate ourselves. To have a place to do that within a community is important. The MBA experience is already transformational, and this adds an extra layer—it’s a... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

both skillsets. Academic A two-year joint degree program covering sciences and business courses taught by professors from Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB) and Harvard Business School (HBS) who are preeminent in their respective fields?... View Details

31 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

know how to 'read' this company," he observes. "To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things that are about more than simple profit maximization." A bit more than a third of the students suggested a 40... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies

example, the fountain pen industry nearly collapsed after the introduction of ballpoint pens. Today, people are still buying fountain pens not because they are seamless writing instruments but because, like Swiss watches, a fountain pen sends a very strong View Details

Keywords: April White; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Printing and Related Support Activities; Manufacturing

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

enterprise teams advanced to the final round. From there, four traditional track and two social enterprise teams made the cut. Traditional track winner FishLogic plans to produce programmable signal processing chips that would eventually... 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

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

susceptible to the influence of social norms: They are more likely to reward those practices that are aligned with the social norm and to penalize those that are not. In this way, an organization that values gender diversity signals to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2019
Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

baseline health, making it easier to detect signals of disease before they fully manifest themselves. It’s a proactive versus reactive approach.” Applying a general management perspective to machine learning possibilities “I applied to... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

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 a rapidly changing world (where unknowns vastly outweigh knowns)? Whose... View Details

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Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine | About

frustration, and sadness and pray for a rapid end to the war. The consequences of this unprovoked aggression by the Russian government are devastating not only on a human level, but also in signaling the potential for geopolitical... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Hybrid Learning the HBS Way

combined with the faculty camera feed into a separate Zoom room. Using audio signal processors and video switchers, the team created logic to enlarge the video image of whichever student was speaking. Remote students could now see their... View Details

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