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- 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
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals? What signals should leaders send... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
upper Amazon, they brought people a taste of America, along with the promise of freedom and prosperity. The end of the Cold War signaled victory for Brand America. As closed economies opened up to foreign trade and investment, Brand... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
and Operations Management (TOM). Many perceive the necessity to ask for help as a sign of weakness in today’s society. I find this not to be true. Asking for help signals you trust someone else’s capacity on a subject matter. By taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
individuals make decisions in an operations management setting when there is information asymmetry among the participants. Common equilibrium assumptions yield the least cost separating outcome as the unique equilibrium. In this equilibrium, the more informed party... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Ask A Coach: How Do I Find a Mentor?
importantly the failures. What missteps did they make that you could avoid? It is important when signaling you are ready to take on new challenges not to be too risk averse, but if you can foresee the pitfalls that snagged others on their... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
stakeholders. Here is some expert advice. “Early on, entrepreneurs should avoid a focus on overly specific solutions and instead present the big picture,” write Rory McDonald and Robert Bremner in Harvard Business Review. “When changing course, they can then View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE
developing 21st century competencies in young people. By focusing on degree credentials and work experience as proxies for competencies in entry-level recruitment, employers signal the wrong focus to educators and young people. As a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
structure, making data collection difficult and delaying the alarm bells that signal an oncoming crisis. Ivashina points to the fact that no one understood the scope of the exposure banks had to subprime mortgages in 2008 until it was too... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
the same experience and credentials?" Analyzing the content and efficacy of roughly three hundred one-minute pitches, the researchers found that certain words and phrases could be used as signaling devices to create an impression of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
that will increase the value of the relationship for both of us. Social media provides a way for us to communicate with our customers, rather than just talking to them, as most marketing communications do. Both physically and virtually, consumers are constantly View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-003.pdf Preference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Abstract Many labor markets share... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
party, regardless of whether they are true—or even especially because they are untrue. “The theory is that the best way to signal your loyalty to your political party is to show that you’re willing to take outlandish stances that will... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy" View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
PublicationsLords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2010) Abstract Firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace