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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Publishing) With Murder You Get Sushi: A Miss Information Technology Mystery by Diane Davidson (MBA 1980) and Mary Ann Davidson, collaborating as Maddi Davidson (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Destiny’s Child: Memoirs of a... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
typically are presented four to six weeks after the close of a quarter, often involve a conference call by company executives with shareholders and stock analysts. Part of those sessions may include executives giving soft “guidance” or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 by Noel Maurer (Princeton University Press) Throughout the last century, US governments willingly deployed hard and soft power to protect American... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
releasing information that Fox News Channel could use to attack them in the months leading up to the election. Specifically, the firms chose to delay releasing disappointing financial information until the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
you can’t study a leader in isolation; there’s a relational construct between a person and society. Clinical psychology gets into the underlying motivation for people who seek leadership positions. In political science, we saw the distinction between hard power, which... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
traditional banking system had no information about applicants nor any idea how their capital would be deployed. In addition, decisions were made by bankers using largely subjective criteria, or, as Vallée puts it, “He had a View Details
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
“There are so many industries that have a history of relying on the "soft stuff," and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is the soft stuff is often a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
L. Bower Publication:Chap. 9 in Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board, edited by Jay A. Conger, 253-275. Jossey-Bass, 2009 Book link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470391782.html Information Content... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
the medium term, to this government manipulation other than investor psychology? —Jim Daley (MBA 1986) KIRBY: Investor psychology probably is the biggest risk, but another is an overreliance on hard infrastructure investments (roads, rail, subways) as distinct from... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
others, which is much more difficult to do in developed nations." Starbucks met that challenge by creating a "third place" for the customer between home and office, increasing the size of its stores and adding enticements such as soft... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
a soft side, too, and that’s what he used most with his staff. We were completely loyal to him. I also give talks in Europe and all over America on Dow Jones, the stock market, and, of course, my old boss. I’ve been fortunate to have a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
"name your own price" devices, permission marketing, group buying, price comparison engines, car purchase Web sites, mass customization, etc. It is still largely a new way of thinking whose domain and modalities remain to be defined. For a while the dominant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too - MBA
age, I was contemplating the world and my place in it. In Appalachia, opportunity ebbs and flows with the demand for steel and coal. And in 1992, many of the factories that had provided the community’s lifeblood sat dormant along the banks of the Ohio River. Consumed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
an organization that was much like an extended family—one in which he knew employees personally, involved himself deeply in their lives, and adapted his style to suit each individual.” But being “warm and fuzzy” doesn’t mean being soft on... View Details