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firm-specific sanctions instead of blanket tariffs. February 2025 Case Dreaming Big: Calm Considers Spinning Off Its Sleep Experience By: Sara McKinley Torti January 2025 Case Duolingo: On a "Streak" By: Jeffrey F. Rayport , Nicole... View Details

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management degree can have on their professional and personal lives, and we want this experience to be used as a personal and career planning tool. If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP be regarded by my employer? It... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

other extant signaling game models in the operations management literature. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50107 Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2024
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Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

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10 Nov 2015
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Using an MBA for a Career Change

file cabinets?? So I applied to business schools and was lucky enough to be admitted to HBS. I tried out things I never would have done had I stayed in auditing. HBS FIELD 2 at Dafiti.com in Sao PauloAcademic immersion View Details

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that you complete your profile by identifying your industry and topic/interest preferences, as these also will improve your ability to connect with fellow alumni as well as aid your personalized experience on the alumni website. How do I... View Details

05 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

perform better afterward." A field experiment The final study tested the hypotheses in the real-world setting of Wipro, a business-process outsourcing company based in Bangalore, India. The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

often infeasible. One solution is to treat a fraction of a group, and then hope the effect of the treatment will spread to other group members. To test the viability of this option, we designed an experiment to examine the impact of... View Details

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Director of Qalaa Holdings, shared his experiences during and after HBS and offered valuable insights on scholarships. The session also featured a panel discussion and Q&A with alumni and a current student, who shared their perspectives... View Details

2009
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Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

By: Heidi K. Gardner

In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams

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September, the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center and the MBA Admissions Office hosted information sessions in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen. More than 300 prospective applicants attended the events, where 18 alumni shared insights about their View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). Mark has worked in carbon markets and climate finance for nearly three decades, with experience at organizations like WWF, The Climate Group, and Fundación Natura in Ecuador.... View Details

27 Oct 2009
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literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Africa - Global

Africa. Members of the HBSAN and ARC in attendance, expressed their gratitude for Professor Iyoha’s contributions and looked forward to the valuable case studies that would result from her visit. May 2024 FIELD Global Immersion (FGI)... View Details

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

end-to-end customer experiences in an unforgiving dynamic economy. As one executive put it, in a hyperconnected world, competitors can "pop up from anywhere and everywhere." With rising expectations of customers and other stakeholders, no... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Associate Professor Mark L. Egan Finance FIELD Immersion Experience Returns After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, the first-year required View Details

05 Aug 2022
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Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

provider that they had an unsightly smudge on their face. The field study points to an uncomfortable truth: Even in cases where people have little to lose, they withhold needed feedback from others who could use it. Part of the reason why... View Details

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07 Aug 2012
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experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details