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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Roberts received his BA, cum laude, from Harvard College in economics in 1979. He was awarded his MBA, with high distinction, from Harvard Business School in 1983. He completed his formal studies in 1986 when he received his doctorate, as... View Details

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

negotiating too narrowly with those who have formal power and authority. Negotiation experts have a patriarchal name for a version of this classic—and avoidable—mistake: Decide-Announce-Defend or DAD. Along with gaining the full-throated... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

30 Jan 2014
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Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

There is no single "best" style of leadership nor one set of attributes in all situations. We look at the sources of constraints and at leadership as a sense of identity: Leaders do not require a formal position; rather,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

21 Jul 2021
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What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

deal. Map the relationships among those on your all-party map by assessing the informal as well as the formal decision and governance processes. For example, to improve the odds of your ultimate target saying "yes," we often use... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

study of companies’ formal statements about their cultures reveals that most don’t proclaim concepts related to individuality as core values. Only 22 percent listed “diversity” as an official value, only 11 percent listed “creativity,”... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

06 Oct 2020
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18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

scheduled early on. The hiring manager should v-meet (virtual meeting) daily with the new hire at first, and then move these check-ins to two or three times per week once a relationship is established. The hiring manager should also perform a more View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

sentences before more specific headlines and bullets. Be careful with bullet length; you do not want them to be a paragraph in disguise. Write as you would speak If you were speaking to a candidate in-person, how would you describe the role? You likely would not use... View Details

12 May 2020
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Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

cities over the last ten years. While I enjoyed every moment, I missed my friends. I wanted to meet a diverse group of people at school and build the deep relationships I’d left behind. I had also never formally worked in a Venture... View Details

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

difficult feat even if non-competes were still in place. Trade secrets are becoming harder for employees to steal. First, know-how is increasingly embedded organizationally, across employees and teams. Even ignoring all the formal patents... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

2019
Article

Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details

Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning

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June 2012
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Buro Happold (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson

In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Managing Growth; Organizational Design; Diversification; Client Management; Leadership Skills; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Training; Programs; Customer Relationship Management

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01 Dec 2019
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they coped, 52 percent told themselves the harassment wasn’t important, while only 9 percent issued a formal complaint with their employer; 10 percent fell in the same camp as Dixon and decided to leave their job. The survey’s findings... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

no longer hurt American interests—its incidence would fall on Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese manufacturers trying to sell into the highly competitive American market. Q: President Jimmy Carter ceded formal control. Why did our interest... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie

business became irresistible. "I knew I wanted formal training in the field so I could combine entrepreneurship with medicine," Okezie explains. With the encouragement of his HMS advisors, he submitted an application to HBS. Tackling the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

18 Nov 2013
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Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

"subjective sense of power," when someone believes they have control over others, and actual power, when someone has formal authority over how resources are allocated or how decisions are made. The two often go hand in hand, but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Teele Hall | About

Teele Hall Teele Hall is named for Stanley Ferdinand Teele (MBA 1930, DCS 1933), the Dean of Harvard Business School from 1955 to 1962. Located at 230 Western Avenue, Teele Hall is home to the School’s External Relations, Financial, and Human Resources departments.... View Details

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Charlotte MacDonald

calendar with too many formal commitments. Because I want this experience to be reflective, I need to leave myself some time, some freedom and mental energy." Her reflections are informed and reinforced by both her direct colleagues... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company. Professor Weinzierl has written on a range of topics in optimal taxation and optimal economic policy more generally. His work in Positive Optimal Tax Theory has focused on identifying and View Details

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