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- 30 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
4 Ways I've Changed at HBS
fosters an environment conducive to helping you take risks and failing in a productive fashion. I discovered it really is ok to fail. A fear of failure often means we avoid taking risks, learning new things, or trying something that feels... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
already in place, she says. Upon leaving HBS, she hopes to take the knowledge she's gained about well-run organizations back into the manufacturing world. “After this, I don't think I'll fall into thinking ‘Go with the status quo,'” she... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
sharpened my analytical skills, which was invaluable for law school and beyond,” she says. “I also greatly enjoyed the courses on organizational behavior and production — some of those lessons were useful later on, when I had to preside... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- Web
Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
with an ongoing exploration of environmentally sound business practices through her work in industry, marketing and new product development. She has taught at numerous institutions, including Case Western Reserve University, Old Dominion... View Details
- Web
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
that, in addition to advertising copywriting, I was interested in things like product attributes, pricing, and distribution. My vision of the future changed to product management in the wider consumer goods... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
pooling equilibria exist becomes smaller, and firms are more likely to anger consumers. Regulation can increase welfare, for example, through fines (even if there are no changes in prices). We illustrate these gains in a monopoly setting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices and the public policy mix are all important. “Rather than turn protectionist, a more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the two tendencies can be explained as a product of a contingent recency effect: although the estimations reflect negative recency, choice behavior reflects positive recency. A similar pattern is observed in the field study: immediately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the region, compared with about 20 percent in Mercosur, the South American trade group. Not only have politics stood in the way of gains from collaboration between Israeli and Arab firms, but cooperation even among Arab companies has been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
admire Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire by creating and marketing hair products that she couldn’t find for herself.” On corruption: “When you read the press on Nigeria you assume that everybody is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
when he and partners Jorge Paulo Lemann and Carlos Sicupira gained control of one of Brazil’s largest breweries, Telles agreed to run the company. Using strategies that had proven successful as an investment banker, he dramatically... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
psychological safety tend to bounce back over time? One possibility is that employees gain it back after realizing the benefits of speaking up outweigh the risks. “Although it can be uncomfortable to speak up, share ideas, or ask... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
Metaverse to affect productivity. Will it follow patterns associated with many new technologies—that is, disappoint us for a number of years? Or will the innovations in how we work and collaborate in the Metaverse be so profound that real (whether measured or not)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett