Signals - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

proposal and negotiating strategy seemed to signal a possibly corrupt deal among elites. This inadvertently triggered the involvement of the Honduran Congress, labor unions, political parties, potential business competitors, indigenous... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

work with Gulati, "The simple fact that these executives chose to leave large, established pharmaceutical/healthcare companies to join young biotechnology firms may also signal the firms' quality" to the investment community.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

the exceptions that scholars and policymakers had historically reserved from their embrace of open capital markets were ruled out of bounds. The norm of capital mobility was to be universal and unqualified. Deviation was a powerful signal... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

Up: Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an investigative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

findings are consistent with capital markets interpreting the choice of purchase accounting as a signal of management's confidence in the likelihood of a successful merger. This signal is particularly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

census data on retail stores located in England, Sadun found that stricter planning restrictions against big-box stores actually coincided with independent retailers closing down or hiring fewer workers, a signal their business was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

propositions represents a market test and signal of what consumers want. Q: Consumer marketing appears to be drifting away from mass market advertising to more targeted approaches made possible by the digital world. Is political marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

Venture investing has picked up from the post-dot-bomb era of a few years ago—but does the comeback signal good times ahead or a mini bubble of misguided exuberance? To provoke discussion, HBS professor Bill Sahlman threw down the... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

strategy, find ways to overcome it, because employees cannot live in the dark.” Choose people to serve as “information brokers.” They can share updates and provide a sense of stability during the transition. “You cannot rely on just your top people because they are... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

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Folafolu Folowosele

Mesoamerica Energy, helped land owners obtain titles before the company leased property from them and gave them a fair share of the revenue generated from the wind turbines on their property. “To me, that was a strong signal on how to... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Because you may be competent and compatible, but if you don’t send signals that you are committed, your manager could worry that you will quit. Or you may be compatible and committed, but if you can’t do the job, none of that matters. Ng... View Details

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

patients. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18202 Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract We outline a dividend View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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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

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