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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
idea for this book rose to the fore. The Times was eager to have a prominent individual as the editor, so when Nancy Koehn agreed to do it, that was a big selling point for everyone.” As the September Bulletin was going to press with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The big question is, is it really... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
experiment and their interactions can make it difficult to determine cause-and-effect relationships. Choosing the right sample size is important. How can we ensure reliable results? Randomized field trials, "blind" tests, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team of three MBA 2003 students, Steven Carden, Hank Midgley, and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
of mind. The quantitative team created a survey that touched on sentiments about socioeconomic inclusion as well as demographics. We found that the school doesn't have a great sense of people's socioeconomic background—there was data... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
on the next big thing, Dahod marries technological understanding with management expertise to solve high-tech problems and build cutting-edge companies. With five advanced degrees and five successful startups under his belt, Dahod... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
advance the HBS mission by preserving the history of business, acquiring data for groundbreaking scholarship, disseminating research to high-value audiences, and championing new ways to thoughtfully harness artificial intelligence. 20th... View Details
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
with them. But, if you’re working with a colleague who lives in a faraway time zone or is culturally different from you, you have to get on a flight and meet that person in person. That’s a big takeaway,” Choudhury says. In a business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
it, students get a hands-on sense of what is unique about digital economics and business models, from new businesses like 3-D printing to "classics" like Facebook. They also do a deep dive into data analytics. "There are... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
lights when we leave the room or recycling our bottles," Karmarkar says. "Bringing bags is interesting in that it's a difficult thing to remember to do, and actually requires a fairly big behavioral change on the part of the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the lawyers or the accountants. Schleyer: The big offenders get people talking, but I don't believe the American public has in general lost confidence in corporate America. Wagoner: Realistically, yes, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
also been collecting quantitative data from companies to determine the effects of diversity and a more inclusive culture on performance. There are many question marks. For example, under what conditions would you expect diversity to have... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
bit of attention; 96 people submitted 410 programs, and 20 of the contestants had ideas that exceeded researchers’ expectations. The best solution increased the accuracy of the data from 91 percent to 97 percent and increased processing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
link: http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.10.004 January 2015 Economic Journal Does Management Matter in Schools? By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Brad... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed decisions using View Details