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- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
identically distributed signals of true quality," he says. "Essentially, they treat a restaurant that gets three five-star reviews followed by three one-star reviews the same way that they treat a restaurant that gets three one-star... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
a place where someone like me can enter and feel a strong affection and affinity? How do we signal that this is an institution that on its surface could be exclusionary but has resisted that impulse by taking intentional efforts to make... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
to signals the CEO and the firm's literature send about company mission and values. Focus on getting a quality boss over a good job title. Don't be afraid to take seemingly circuitous career paths once inside the organization. Have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
interest to customers (earthquakes, fires, conflicts at key border crossings) and to autonomously instruct the constellation to monitor them in a process known as “tipping and cueing.” The platform’s algorithms can interpret the radio identification View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
through bankruptcy could have sent a signal to Apollo's limited partners—and to its competitors—that the firm wasn't "willing to support its less successful investments, undermining future fund-raising efforts or its ability to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that being female is a liability,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
caring for children, leaders must be sensitive to issues of exhaustion and the difficulty of working during pre-pandemic office hours. "Leadership signaling that working unorthodox hours is okay could make a real difference to their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
out in a way that is consistent with how the new leader plans to govern, illustrates his or her values, and signals some of his or her later moves. It’s pretty demoralizing to live inside a situation needing a turnaround. To renew... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsApple Inc., 2008 Harvard Business School Case 708-480 In January 2007, three decades after its incorporation, Apple Computer shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With that move,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
work on signaling and persuasion can help enact urgently needed change.” —Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration and author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, forthcoming in January MUST READ... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
single-handedly helped lessen the severity of a national recession. Soon after his appointment as P&G's CEO in June 2000, A.G. Lafley publicly acknowledged that the company had forced too many changes too quickly, thus signaling to the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the interpretation of physical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
of her own goals. She could suggest to her boss, "Would it be better to have a high-profile male partner on this assignment?" because that would send a stronger signal to the company and public that the firm took the issue of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
influence their judgement. Key Takeaways Adjusting your interview process to ensure equity and inclusion makes hiring, and your organization as a whole, more effective. Take the time up-front to utilize these best practices and they will soon become the new normal and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
G. Tsimerinov, (PLDA 16, 2017) (right) and Anu Dhir (GMP 2018) (middle) “Club members enjoyed hearing about the principal-agent problem, cash flow measures signaling value, and investor capitalism,” says Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
chosen to be a lead adopter of such practices in India for several reasons that we analyze—as a signal of its high quality, to benefit indirectly from positive externalities that its adoption decision had on other software firms in India,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
Tower’s high touch Leadership Development Program helping her carve a path forward, the signals are clear. Nyanteki-Owusu is heading towards a bright and rewarding future. View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
arrive in your email five minutes before the meeting starts, it's a signal that the person in charge hasn't laid the groundwork for a productive use of time. There should be adequate time in advance for everyone to prepare for a... View Details
Keywords: Time management