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- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human... View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Crisis Leadership: Waltham Watch Company, 1837–1957 Financial crises place extraordinary demands on business leaders. Surges in bankruptcy rates testify to the hazards involved, but these brief View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
Technology advanced dramatically throughout his career, changing the way business operated and how people interacted in stunning ways. “To have managed a technical business throughout that period was an amazing experience,” says Spreng.... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
ad, followed by a longer period of joy, in order to get the most 'attention' bang for the buck," Teixeira says. This finding flies in the face of focus groups of the past, which found that viewers responded most positively to ads that had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
assess what each side had done to comply with promised actions. Assuming that the cooling-off period takes hold, then foreign ministers from Arab countries and Israel would set up a more comprehensive outline for negotiations. Ross's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same period last year. But that doesn't... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
the quality threshold that the idea underlying the startup needs to pass may be lower than during normal times. Considering our findings from other periods of economic distress, lowering the idea-quality bar may then imply long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni
with a schedule that prevents the ability to attend at least 9 of the 12 monthly meetings should wait and join* when their availability is more reliable and consistent. Of course, life happens. Members may occasionally need to miss a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
on the frequency of names from birth certificates of babies born in Massachusetts in the mid-1970s. Using these twenty guest accounts, the researchers sent some 6,400 to Airbnb hosts over a period of three weeks in July, 2015. Then they... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
for example. Investors may secure a promising iron ore asset but drag their feet in developing it while waiting for mines elsewhere to deplete. Even after a decision is made to mine, the infrastructure must be built to bring the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Despite the renewed interest in vinyl, there were not many manufacturers—less than 20 in the United States—and few had updated their processes or supply chain since the heyday of the late 1970s. In the fast-moving music scene, Kelleher says bands would View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
spoken with and advised a steady stream of young, middle-, and later-stage professionals who excelled for a period but then began to struggle professionally and to experience doubt about what they wanted. In the early stages of their... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
managing investments the same way in both areas. "We're helping them stay alive during a horrible economic downturn so they can last on a minimum amount of capital during a period in which their top line is not going to grow very... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
of France, on my way to Lisbon in Portugal. And I had been on a work trip in Cannes. Which is a town near the French Riviera. I'm waiting for a flight, I'm sitting with some colleagues. And we were really just View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
found that when work schedules clash, real-time communication drops, and some workers feel pressure to shift their work-related conversations to early or late periods of the day when they should be off the clock. Yet talking after hours... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
from origin to destination" still do so quite effectively. To ease circulation and shorten waits at the dining halls, class periods for different student groups are staggered. Second-year students'... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni
people developers. Looking back, Francis shares, “I really wish I didn't wait a year retrospectively, but I wasn’t comfortable sharing this during the recruiting process. Once I was within the organization though, I definitely think it... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
predictions of several models of learning and related models. We find that equilibrium becomes a better predictor of observed play as the players become more experienced, but that simple models of learning predict more accurately, over the 500 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Being in a period of indecision may be uncomfortable, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing.” Terrana says she learned that what motivated her fifteen years ago — her career, primarily — had changed to encompass family, friends, greater... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services