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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
victory. "It can also lock a company into a community—a double-edged sword," Sull writes. You name monuments after your success. Renaming football stadiums, ice hockey rinks, and the like "is another red flag that sometimes View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
their stuff embarrasses them. Their Range Rovers no longer tell the world that they are sophisticated town and country socialites. There are simply too many of them on the road to offer much social status. Worse, they now signal the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
over.” A few years ago, the HBS Old Boys adopted “golden oldies” rules where older players wear gold-colored shorts to signal they are not to be tackled. Tom Avery is thankful for those rules. “Ten years ago, on our tour to Argentina, I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
lower concentration or expected firm-level demand, which reduces the value of having control and pushes in the direction of increased autonomy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-009.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
delivers perfect results in equilibrium. This result stems from the fact that a sender's willingness to invest in improving the precision of their messages can itself serve as a signal. Interestingly, the content of the messages is ignored by the receiver in such a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
effectively. But it’s not about gaming the system, emphasizes Huang—startups need to make sure that they have both the quantitative analysis to back up their idea and the “soft” factors that can appeal to investors. Depending on the View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
geography, and to make that decision she turned the thought process inward. “Initially I thought that I would like to have experience working in the US over the summer since in Africa having US work experience is celebrated and has a View Details
- Blog
Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs
Datar, Tarun Khanna, and Rob Huckman were all on board. With the all-clear signal given, teams across Executive Education, Dining and Custodial Services, and Operations sprang into action. Details that had not been considered, much less... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
behavior. A price signal would be a silver bullet that would drive that change.” Jacobs did have answers for some of the risk issues, at least in the global north. He said his company has a decade of proven success in de-risking climate... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog
In each class, we ask students to prepare by understanding what is happening and why. What are the proximate and root causes of why this company is facing the situations articulated in the case? What signals are appearing that suggest the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
takes months or years to build up. Yet Frances amassed it within minutes. How?” “For leaders, earning trust is essential to gaining (and retaining) followers. It often takes months or years to build up. Yet Frances amassed it within minutes. How?” Second, she View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Republic, eager to find more space in what the World Bank estimates to be a $1.2 trillion global credit gap for small to medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets. Success outside Nigeria, notes Kehinde, would send a powerful signal... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
find emissions to be less under cap-and-trade, with technology choice driving the vast majority of the difference. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-079.pdf Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Signaling and Regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
of our community. By starting this club, we are sending the signal loud and clear that we will no longer tolerate being shut out. Given the investing world’s tendency to rely on personal networks not only to win deals, but also to find... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing markets" View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
into your strategy right from the start. "There are certain things you won't know until you engage with the other side. In other words, negotiation is a dynamic, interactive process," Wheeler says. Whatever questions, offers, or threats you make are also View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of income to real-world poor people in the context of dictator games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace