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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along with the creation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
that Khoja—a genial, solidly built man who clearly enjoys a good story—can tell as an example of how Roshan has changed a country crippled for decades by corruption, poverty, and conflict. But before Roshan executives could even think... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
fundamentally change the way companies purchased consulting services? Or, should the founders play it safe by remaining focused on executing their original business model—a proven winner? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=gray%20rand%20et%20al.pdf August 2013 PLoS ONE Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
can cascade into large accidents. Moreover, practices that conflate competence with toughness lead workers to ignore precautionary measures and take unnecessary risks. Thus, the costs of men's masculine striving are high, and both individuals and organizations View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
continues. "We ought to think about the optimal way of caring for a particular type of patient and then how to pay for that optimal way rather than say, 'Here's the payment regime, what can we do in this context?' "For me, the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
attempting to raise awareness about gender inequality for early- and mid-career professionals as well as women at the senior executive level. Although significant progress has been made over the past 50 years, women still hold only a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native Oregon for family reasons in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
buying a home or car. The first Harvard faculty member to hold tenured appointments at both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Subramanian is the faculty chair for the new HBS Executive Education course Managing Negotiators... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
titled "Groupthink," "Debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them." These ladies will help you generate ideas to navigate both the best and the worst events in the arc of your career and life. Sue Schooner (MBA 1983), View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
starts paying attention to something or someone, it happens in one of two ways: executive control (that person deliberately chooses what to focus on) or attentional capture (the attention is captured by a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
particularly women of color, were more likely to be employed by the industries hardest hit by shutdowns, including leisure, hospitality, and retail. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic.”... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
honest criticism will hurt the group's collegiality or, worse, result in reprisal—namely, getting kicked off the board and losing a gig that often pays six figures annually, plus stock options or shares. "At $150,000 a year—a typical... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage. A first step is distinguishing... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
Salt Lake to work on the Salt Lake Olympics. And he hired me, so I got to be one of the executives on the Olympic Committee. I just had a fantastic time. David Binswanger. I am section H of 1982. My first job ever was loading tapes onto... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace