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South Asia - Global

business issues, helping to build intellectual capital on this important region. Further, the IRC is home to an HBS style classroom, allowing for regional business leaders to experience our faculty and the hallmark case study method in... View Details

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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

consistency—and two operational pillars: data-driven decision-making and prioritization. Using BMC’s experience as an illustrative case, the article outlines six strategic choices healthcare leaders must make to translate intention into... View Details

29 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 29, 2006

standard deviation of demand, one that has been employed successfully in the recent literature uses dispersion among experts' forecasts. However, there has been limited empirical validation of this methodology. In this paper we provide a general methodology for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

saddest thing. It sent me into depression. And what I learned from that experience is what we talk about in the book, is you take the the thing that was the worst thing for you, the thing that was the challenge, and you began to-- you... View Details

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22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

strong beliefs in the meaning of their work experience better performance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54523 Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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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

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

mind wander freely. The children’s franchise about the world of dreams sprung from a random text from my brother, Rob (MBA 2014), to my family text chain that there are a trillion stars in the Andromeda Galaxy alone. This staggering fact... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Biasi, Zoë B. Cullen , Julia H. Gilman and Nina Roussille This paper provides causal evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union... View Details

2025
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Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Jordan. The case explores platform strategy, influencer ecosystems, customer experience differentiation, and internationalization challenges in emerging markets. It is ideal for teaching courses in digital strategy, global... View Details

17 Feb 2020
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How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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alumni and students can view your profile, via the Privacy tab of Edit My Profile for your Alumni Profile. You may provide feedback about this experience at the Website Feedback & Support page. LinkedIn Why is my profile no longer syncing... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically aligned firms experience larger stock price declines following events damaging the Party’s reputation, and (vi) firms increase... View Details

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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management

management degree can have on their professional and personal lives, and we want this experience to be used as a personal and career planning tool. If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP be regarded by my employer? It... View Details

15 Feb 2022
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When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

mathematics—see much greater longevity. Teachers often experience long-lasting success, and a Chronicle of Education study says the oldest college professors tend to have the best teaching evaluations. Jumping on that second crystalized... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

other extant signaling game models in the operations management literature. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50107 Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Podcast - Business & Environment

company’s mission to recycle textile waste and build circular supply chains for apparel made of polyester fabric. Patrik brings his prior experience leading Under Armour and other global brands across the textile and footwear industry for... View Details

10 Nov 2015
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Using an MBA for a Career Change

file cabinets?? So I applied to business schools and was lucky enough to be admitted to HBS. I tried out things I never would have done had I stayed in auditing. HBS FIELD 2 at Dafiti.com in Sao PauloAcademic immersion View Details

05 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

perform better afterward." A field experiment The final study tested the hypotheses in the real-world setting of Wipro, a business-process outsourcing company based in Bangalore, India. The View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

factor, their research showed, because people experience more joy during their limited free time than while working or doing household chores. Interestingly, however, what people did with their extra time was more important than how many... View Details

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