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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
take concrete steps to immediately get involved in their communities. Gerdeman: Given the perception by many in the public that businesses are concerned only with making profits, are you hoping this research will open people’s eyes to the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
folks coming to the meeting who maybe don't believe in God? Who are just kind of curious, or want to challenge you in any way? I'm just wondering who shows up, who maybe is not the typical participant, and what happens then? Wilkins: Yeah. So what I've encountered is,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
issue, the Bulletin's editors were already aware of this alumni pre-dilection: "As we see it," they wrote, "the chief source of interest in the Bulletin is the Alumni Notes." On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the magazine and of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
several years our conclusion is that these skills can be developed by anyone open and willing to practice and develop these critical skills. This chapter gives an overview of the course curriculum, complete with the conceptual framework,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
from multiple sources and individual level survey data collected as part of the International Social Survey Programme in 2002 and 2012 from nationally representative samples of men and women in 24 countries in North and South America,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
then dominated by state owned companies. In some developing countries, officials were converted to the new beliefs. In other countries, officials were not so enthusiastic about the new ideology, but they found themselves cut off from other View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
KR, which ironically improves with increasing access to other sources of knowledge. We conclude that KRs are unlikely to scale service operations without additional intervention. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
more specific rules. “Regulators should have the temperament that ‘we need to make this thing work,’ but most regulators don’t think about it that way and just want to protect the down side,” Lal says. “Regulators should have an open... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the IPO and not be satisfied with only incremental improvements.... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
animals in 2020 as I started to foster. My little One Western Ave (OWA) apartment became home to Shep, Midnight, Ushi, Tyler, and Momo. With a girlfriend across the Atlantic and even neighboring friends feeling impossible to see, their physical companionship was an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
setting of eleven "wiki-like" programming contests, where contest submissions are open for reuse by others, each involving more than one hundred contributors and several thousand attempts to generate, over a one-week period, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
tightly controls its search engine technology that is the core of its advertising profits. In a similar way, Facebook uses open source code to run its site and has recently View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
his home on Kiraly Street on the Pest side of Budapest and he then had to endure a Soviet Communist regime from 1945, when the Russians forced the Germans out of Budapest after a lengthy and very destructive siege, until 1956 when the short-lived Hungarian Revolt led... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
potentially building buzz among consumers above and beyond sales to the consumers who actually buy the vouchers. This effect is more difficult to measure, but many merchants perceive it to be real. Where it exists, it's an important View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
program is a huge source of data for us about what is going on in the world," says SPNM faculty chair Herman ("Dutch") Leonard, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS. "The participants bring literally... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Abstract—Learning in organizations is a key determinant of individual and organizational success, and one valuable source of this learning is prior failure. Previous research finds that although individuals can learn from failed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne