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- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
that allows companies to score themselves. For those interested in creating a more in-depth picture of their strengths and weaknesses, the website includes instructions for firms to run the complete survey... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
Data from 1,700 executives by Linda Hill and colleagues reveals the most important skills and traits leaders need now. 4. When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career The second half of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
symbolic power of their actions and the strength of the signals they send when they make decisions about the formation and structure of work teams in their organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
room). [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/1o5OMrRU8PPPowRIfUXF][/div] In evaluating your own career goals, Huang recommends taking a page from Buc-ee’s and asking yourself: What are the strengths that set... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire
The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
recent study of mergers and acquisitions, investors who offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better market outcomes than those who offer round-numbered bids. “If one party gives a round number, it gives the signal that the party... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Current Research: Issues in Corporate Governance
Effectiveness of shareholder voting
Reform of shareholder voting is a key component of legislation arising from the financial crisis of 2008. Professor Gow examines the effect of shareholder voting on corporate actions, particularly on... View Details
- 19 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application
prepare my recommenders? A good recommender knows you well and is able to speak to your specific strengths and abilities. We prefer to have one of your two recommenders be a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
process.” Previous studies have shown that employees are especially productive and happy when employers encourage them to use their individual signature strengths on the job, but historically those studies... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back
seeking out like-minded individuals who align with my values and bring their unique strengths to the table, but who also challenge my thinking and complement my skills. Lastly,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details
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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets
Diversified) “Something we have always understood and appreciated was the strength that each and every brother brings to the table. You learn from everyone – It was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Drill In 1981, I was promoted to CIO of a Fortune 500 chemical company, with responsibility for both information systems and the nationwide telecommunications network. My background didn’t include any View Details
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
three wishes, what would they be?” “Health, to take a trip home at Christmas time, and to take a wedding trip to Norway next spring,” she replied. By noting these and other responses, the researchers... View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
infrastructure staff, as well as advertisers, were not. Musk’s stated desire to make Twitter a haven for any speech “within the bounds of the law” has led to a sharp uptick in posts advocating white nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
and would have to fit neatly in stacks. McLean patented a steel-reinforced corner-post structure, which allowed the trailers to be gripped for loading from their wheeled platforms and provided the View Details