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- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton, and Maurice Schweitzer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Skydeck - Alumni
podcast Climate Rising , Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) discusses the business plan behind her sustainable spending app Striving for Imperfection In a new book, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times Lessons from Major League Baseball's... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Lakhani%202013%20Prize%20Contests%20Nature%20Biotech_074fddc3-1449-45fe-a1a0-8086a8883f99.pdf China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles Authors:Marquis, Christopher, Hongyu Zhang, and Lixuan Zhou Publication:Stanford Social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary product. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Mid-US - Global
United States Mid-US Harvard Business School (HBS) established the Mid-US Research Center (MRC) in 2021 to build a deeper understanding of business practice and innovation in the South, Midwest, and Mountain regions. The MRC plays a vital... View Details
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Clubs - Business & Environment
transition to a sustainable system. MIT Student Clubs MIT student clubs host some events that are open to HBS students, such as cross-school mixers and public events like the MIT Sustainability Summit , MIT Climate & Energy Prize , MIT... View Details
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Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Economic Strategy Economic Strategy Nations, regions, states, and cities all require clear economic strategies that engage all stakeholders, boost innovation and ultimately improve productivity. A collaborative strategy—which is... View Details
- January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT&T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
Gross, Daniel P., and William R. Kerr. "AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Case 718-486, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
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Current Research
By: Leslie K. John
Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.
Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
implications of this result for both innovating managers, as well as researchers in the field. We also assess how future work in this area might proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Merve Ciplak
“I worked with a small group of former consultants,” she says, “who become the Innovation and Change Management Team for the Programme. We worked with operations teams all over the world, doing ad hoc consulting projects for field offices... View Details
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Academics - Health Care
the Harvard community. Elective Courses Elective health care-focused courses will vary from year to year. Upcoming HBS course offerings include: Innovating in Health Care: Field Course Problems with health care quality, access, and costs... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
innovation. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, we show that more IP protection and building stronger barriers around innovation are not always the best path to capturing value. Paradoxically, innovators can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by J. Dutton and B. Ragins, 265-275. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2006 Abstract White-collar workers increasingly rely on group interaction rather than individual expertise to generate knowledge and create View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Donor Societies - Alumni
offerings Specially selected HBS cases or articles that exemplify faculty research $25,000+ Above offerings Faculty-authored book plus invitation to members-only virtual event with author $50,000+ Above offerings Recognition on the HBS campus Invitation to annual MBA... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
was instrumental in shaping research on Human Behavior & Decision-Making. Today, our research focuses on individual and interactive judgment and decision making and explores the role of personal bias, cognition and learning, time, perception, ethics and morality, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
bankruptcy proceeding can have difficulty restructuring their public bonds. If such bonds are widely held, individual bondholders may be unwilling to make concessions, preferring to free ride off the concessions of others. Thus it will be... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne