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- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
is changing at a very rapid pace. One has to always learn new skills. I think "learning agility" is a key attribute for any successful leader. Also, the higher you go in an organization, more pronounced and important are softer... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
market focus is needed to begin the process in order to know what technological attributes to target in the development, and how to resolve the many trade-offs that arise in the course of development, e.g. cost vs. performance, or weight... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
Marketplace Sustainable Pricing The Cost, Market, and Value Lens Designing for Service Excellence Attribute Mapping Featured Exercises Create an attribute map for your organization Build a journey map for a... View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
"faster" route, but working with contractors can be a black hole of time and capital. In contrast, technical founders can enhance velocity, an important attribute of successful startups, and accelerate attaining product-market... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
stereotypes and does not address why, then these differences—in temperament, values, attitudes, and behaviors—take on a determinative quality. In a culture that readily promotes gender essentialism—the belief that sex differences are natural—stereotypes provide a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi Abstract—Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities-based on attributes such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
technology" is something consumers would value in other domains. In addition, Nanda must decide how to continue marketing Clocky and its successors, given the potential for cannibalization. Clocky's success was largely attributable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
stemming from the idea that unexpected outcomes heighten the desire to sense-make, Study 4 shows that when bad news is unexpected, messenger dislike is pronounced. Finally, consistent with the notion that people fulfill the desire to sense-make by View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
responsibility to respect their intellectual property and to treat any information received from them as confidential. For EC Students Multiple students in multiple courses working on the same project naturally raises issues related to ownership of the work product and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
jointly underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain's Financial Services Authority has announced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
longer lives for the greatest number of people. With everything he does designed to improve the world, Bloomberg is an optimist who attributes much of his success to luck. He has not forgotten his modest beginnings—or the $150 studio he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
leaders who are considered for teaching appointments actually qualify. He attributes this mainly to issues with “status and ego.” In my experience, the problem often was the inability to listen to what MBA students were really saying. I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
to see if their explanations matched their actions; and traced the performance of the companies they invested in. As she described in a previous paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly, decisions attributed to gut feel were... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
may not lead us to the greatest common good ... without government action(s).... These might take the form of incentives." Richard Eckel expanded on this idea, saying that "To suggest that for-profits embody any form of moral restraints is to infer an View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
stretches a worker in a new direction. Framing and bluffing. "This is one of the most creative attributes for obtaining stretchwork," O'Mahony notes. "People who are good at presenting their prior experience in a way that... View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
attributes that you care about; and what you are trying to do with the dataset.” James Mickens Read the Transcript To many, data is assumed to be value neutral . It’s interpreted as the purest, logical representation of perceivable... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who has raised $12 million for DZD, attributes the very existence of the company to the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem and is happy to share his experience with other founders. “When we started the company, we asked ourselves whether... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Your personal accountability is laid on the line, and the anxiety level is likely to be quite high, as is the amount of social reinforcement for doing well. How much of imprinting can be attributed to the relationships that are formed... View Details