Reflection Effect - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

Reflecting on his Leadership Fellows experience at Mercy Corps, he notes the significance of the fellowship on his career trajectory. “It was an unbelievable catapult,” he shared. “I was able to take the relationships, experience, and... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

higher emotional intelligence about others. GEETA AIYER Women have learned the effectiveness of collaboration and ensuring that all are listened to and included. Their speaking styles may also reflect a more... View Details

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

value of a more thorough reflection on the notion of strategy becomes clear when the conceptual framework is contrasted with the reality of strategies as defined by regions. We find that some important aspects of strategy, especially the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Josh Solera

I think it’s the best way to analyze a situation and decide how to address a problem. More importantly, it forces you to communicate effectively – in business, that’s half the battle. You can be the smartest guy in the world, but if you... View Details

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Negotiation - Course Catalog

will determine how well you perform. Because others do not have the same interests, perspectives, and values as you, negotiation skill is critical-professionally and personally. This course will enable you to become a more effective... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

adopted AI in some capacity. At HBS, faculty research and teaching reflect the growing importance of training leaders who can both leverage AI’s possibilities and avoid its pitfalls. Recently, Jan Rivkin, faculty head of the MBA Program... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

reflects on how another devastating health-related crisis—the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa from 2014 to 2016—influenced her decision to pursue economic development to make a lasting impact on the African continent, which... View Details

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those internal pressures are real. Dealing with them should be one of the criteria by which you judge... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

might arise: I believe the tendency is to make across-the-board cuts, without reflecting on the company's business strategy and its relationship to the larger environment. Some companies will end up making very poor decisions that will... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

was especially strong when stars were concentrated in a small number of sectors, likely reflecting suboptimal integration among analysts with similar areas of expertise. Control variables ensured that these View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

tariffs—equivalent to taxes—we are currently witnessing.) It reflects the fact that “global” market freedom for capital and goods may work, but market freedom for labor does not. As a result, labor suffers at the expense of the owners of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

four-component processes of the Customer Management theme—customer selection, acquisition, retention, and growth—demonstrating their importance in maximizing customer value and, ultimately, in value creation itself.Customer management (CM) View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

values were reflected in the zaibatsu and other enterprise groups, which paternalistically watched over their affiliated companies. Within the organization, such values were evident in the widespread norm of lifetime employment... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

experience.” Internship to Extended Interview Reflecting on summer 2021, Belsito and her team at Mori was thrilled with what Sani was able to deliver over ten weeks and even happier to learn he would continue doing project work with the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

to independent makers and retailers among this generation? If so, can you quantify it? —Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) HUBERT: Distinctions like “corporate” versus “independent” reflect a mindset more characteristic of Generation X than the... View Details

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two... View Details