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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
publicly known. Losing streaks are characterized by denial and cover-ups, withholding of information, and finger-pointing rather than accountability. Finding the data and putting facts on the table for all to confront ends closed cronyism... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
life, I began thinking more about how urbanization might stress our existing systems, and how technology can help make urban living more sustainable. With this lens in mind, I applied to HBS with the goal of exploring the exciting world... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
enriching women’s lives through revolutionary egg freezing science that gives women the option to effectively slow down the biological clock. EyeView Tal Riesenfeld, MBA 2008 EyeView is transforming online conversion through the use of... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Real In the summers of 2008 and 2009, when he was a doctoral candidate at HBS, Bernstein hired a team of five Chinese-born Harvard undergraduates to be "embeds" at the plant. They lived in factory dorms and worked alongside... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
shareholder value. The door is more wide open for people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds from both genders. Koehn: I kept running into the issue of leadership as I delved into the lives of the six individuals in my book:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to spot upcoming trends. Together,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
important to get that first job right and connect them with the services they need to be successful in the job search,” he says. Goldenberg, who lives in Los Angeles and joined the organization as its executive director in 2013, says... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on its science-enhanced... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
publishers, and producers in other sectors of the entertainment industry live by this approach. You might think that spreading resources evenly across product lines is the safest approach, especially because no one seems to know for sure... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
analyze their own companies and how they create next-generation executives. And execs early in their work lives should use this information to think long and hard about the first companies they join. Says Higgins: "Understanding the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose By John Coleman (MBA 2009) Harvard Business Review Press We’re living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
live on campus. For the last few days, as I have been traveling from home to office and back again, I ’ ve seen many of you—usually in 1s, 2,s, or 3s, and oftentimes with family members—trying out your regalia, and getting that perfect... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-114.pdf Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract This paper shows that top management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Turnover in India (revised) Authors: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at their best, there’s nothing like it,” she says. “As a business... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
likely to be rewarded for their ideas in male-typed domains when gender is known. This is partly due to discrimination and partly due to differences in self-promotion. External analysis of the chat data provides further insights. Though... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details