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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
people for whom that pattern of behavior made them a success, but there are a lot of people who have that same pattern of behavior who wind up as drunks in the alley." Success is a tough problem for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
ways that avoid the mistakes of industrial policies in the past. Empirical evidence is also mixed with some recent work suggesting that much of the potential and for export growth and export diversification into more attractive market... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 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... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the... View Details
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
greenhouse gas emissions must be net zero by 2050 to keep global warming below 1.5° C and thereby avoid the most serious impacts of climate change. [1] Major Effects of Climate Change Temperature Rise 18 of the 19 warmest years on record... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
consequence of the “scapegoating” that can happen whenever a crisis gets blamed on a particular group. The most troubling aspect of the phenomenon, Luca says, is that the discrimination could have to some extent been avoided if the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
should loudly trumpet their A rankings as a matter of course. Then B-ranked restaurants or schools would reveal their rankings, to separate themselves from the Cs. The pattern would continue to the C establishments and so on. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
high-performing organizations that cultivate all their employees, and offered advice on improving management skills. ...if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers.— Thomas J. DeLong It is all too easy for hard-driving managers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand how power really works Cultivate power to make an impact Avoid the pitfalls of power Build networks as a source of... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
online videos by simply turning away, opening another browser window, or chatting with someone. "It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even if you can't technically skip it," he says. “It's not at all hard to View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
diaphragm up and down, leading to blurry imaging, but now machines can understand that pattern of breathing and collect the data accordingly to avoid blurring. This results in better image quality and the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
development of an instructional program based on them. Perhaps most important, Groopman describes how and why doctors sometimes make tragic mistakes. These are mistakes that occur because of miscommunication (the failure to say "tell me again"); too heavy a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
satisfaction in my career? How can I avoid compromising my integrity? Using lessons from some of the world’s greatest businesses, Christensen and his coauthors provide insight into these challenging questions. The Architecture of... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
sample of 42 others that didn't. The researchers focused on several measures that capture socially responsible management practices including the social responsibility of business leaders, sustainable development, employee training, efficiency of corporate boards,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
small enough to avoid extortion. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50675 Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne