Reflection Effect - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2022
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Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

experience.” Internship to Extended Interview Reflecting on summer 2021, Belsito and her team at Mori was thrilled with what Sani was able to deliver over ten weeks and even happier to learn he would continue doing project work with the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

to independent makers and retailers among this generation? If so, can you quantify it? —Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) HUBERT: Distinctions like “corporate” versus “independent” reflect a mindset more characteristic of Generation X than the... View Details

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

expenses since the 1980s. Program accounting allowed Boeing to expense estimated average costs instead of the actual production costs of an aircraft. This practice lowered the effect of the initially high costs of manufacturing new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

didn’t need to be chasing more income. He built a business on the belief that the term “investment management” was an oxymoron, that an unmanaged portfolio of every stock weighted to reflect the performance of an entire market would... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics reflecting dependence on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
News

Teachable Moments

graduate student at Brigham Young University in 1974, DeLong studied organizational behavior under Stephen Covey (MBA 1957), who would go on to publish The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. “I focused as much on his teaching... View Details

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Dec 2013
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Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

that the tradeoff between scale and friction is complex. For example, what effect does a company's origins, its beliefs, and how these are reflected in management behaviors (reflected in Walmart's emphasis... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

07 Jan 2015
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SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

specific issue of organizational transparency arising with increasing frequency is whether or not salary and wage information should be shared by all members of an organization. It may in part be a reflection of the changing nature of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

engineering for sustainable development.” The program at the University of Cambridge presented Sheil with an opportunity to reflect and then narrow her focus on what she wanted to be doing in the climate sustainability space. With her... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

for prospective board members Effective board leadership involves being a strategic thought partner to CEOs and executive teams, providing insights, guidance, and constructive questioning to facilitate critical decisions. “You want to be... View Details

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

with three choices on a tray: grain, a pen, and a gold coin. Grain represents a love for food. The pen, a love for learning. And gold, a love for business. My mom told me I picked up the pen with one hand and the gold coin with another. Read More>>>... View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

Deal Management This module explores the important choices that private equity firms make after closure of the transactions. In particular, the critical operational levers that drive value creation will be examined, as well as governance, board View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic

obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations; Augustine’s account of his mother’s death in Confessions; an extract from the historian... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

Evian's baby&me features several adults dancing with toddler versions of themselves in the reflection of a store window. Only at the end of the 77-second video do we see a bottle of Evian, along with the slogan "Live young." Since its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

basic system of HBS instruction. Doriot based the class on lectures (students were asked to listen and take notes, but not ask questions) and fieldwork. Teaching this single class for nearly 30 thirty years, Doriot continually reflected... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

leading, and managing effective and sustainable organizations. But what can leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, etc. do to give the female workforce the tools to thrive during this important health journey? Let’s start with education: what... View Details

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