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- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
provided breadth. I asked my McKinsey ‘advisor,’ who was responsible for my professional development and bi-annual evaluations. He was able to give a more comprehensive, long-term view of consistent patterns of strengths and weaknesses... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
organization is ready both in terms of the systemic culture and pattern of management that exists.” Too often CEOs turn to HR to create a training program when faced with a problem. The CEO avoids opening a Pandora’s box of larger... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
but could do interesting things if they had more resources. And then there are definitely titles that, either because they’ve had a really rough go of it or their local economies are struggling, are just in rough shape. We’re developing an analytic approach and using... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
profitability in many instances. So why are so many employers pushing so forcefully for all employees to return to the office, even as employee turnover across industries is increasing? It’s a pattern not isolated to the corporate world.... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
humans are often irrational—and the fact that the logic of real-world decisions therefore sometimes flies in the face of established economic theory. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of behavior I... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
also theirs. To Rawi Abdelal, an HBS professor of international management who serves as faculty co-chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Dlodlo’s community-focused approach to redevelopment represents a necessary step toward reversing the... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Networks Show Hide Details Concepts Mapping Power Dynamics Building and Maintaining Networks Analyzing Your Network Developing Your Network Featured Exercises Analyze patterns in your own professional network and the fit between your... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
product development terms, you might call this something like "jumping to the next S-curve." By the "S-curve" we mean the pattern that new innovations typically follow when they are introduced. At first a few people,... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
most influence on group deliberation, even when white women or people of color in the group have more expertise. Making a proactive effort to tap into the knowledge of others, as these managers did, can disrupt that pattern and help you... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation: associating, observing, quetioning,... View Details
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Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
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Harvard Business School
corporations, endowments, and universities. Viera conceived and developed Return Pattern Recognition®, the investment methodology used to screen equities at EARNEST Partners. His previous experience includes global partner at Invesco and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking and consulting - have evolved into big, pyramid-shaped structures. Will VC firms go that... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
to thrive in an uncertain world. Why Startups Fail Professor Tom Eisenmann + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides Most startups fail. About two-thirds of venture capital investments do not earn a positive return. Professor Eisenmann will discuss View Details
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
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Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
with Intend to invest in startups or serve as startup advisors and board members Are interested in corporate innovation and applying the patterns of startup failure to innovation initiatives or incubator programs within traditional... View Details