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- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
pharmacovigilance in the present era of large-scale pharmaceutical use for chronic conditions. Crossing Boundaries to Investigate Problems in the Field: An Approach to Useful Research Author: Amy C. Edmondson Publication: In Doing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
enthusiastic). As predicted, those who prepared for the job interview with high- (vs. low-) power poses performed better and were more likely to be chosen for hire; this relation was mediated by nonverbal presence, but not by verbal content. While previous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law through the Federal Aid Highway Act... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
with our goals and research interests. A classmate and I partnered with Young Invincibles, a non-profit research and advocacy group, to better understand the drivers of voter turnout among young adults.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
(AI) technology but a recent McKinsey survey of senior executives shows that financial services, utilities and media firms are now testing the AI waters. On the R&D side, CB Insights research shows that... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
didn't plan for those to be control areas on our survey work, but that's what they've become. And the results are dramatically different in those geographic areas where we never ran any ads, where we never did anything. Hanna: Jim, as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- Web
Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
research had been done. Elektra Health, not afraid to shout the “M” word, was positioned to become a leader and advocate for women by commissioning a study to better understand the experience of working professionals experiencing... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin Last summer, HBS Online asked the market research firm City Square Associates to poll 1,000... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that title in the firm’s then-13-year history. Even today, according to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Treadwell Illustration by Jeff Smith A thirty-year resident of Alaska, Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) is chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The commission, which reports to the President and Congress, sets direction for the U.S.... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
disciplinary boundaries. The Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research Conference in Information Sciences and Technology (DESRIST) was an important milepost in their evolution. It provided a forum where students and leading View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the... View Details
- Web
The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions The Route of the Exhibition New York and Chicago Rockefeller Center, 1934. Museum of the... View Details
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
The Ownership Project More Research Projects The Ownership Project explores how structuring ownership of key elements in the economy can help businesses and communities address pressing societal challenges and support human values in the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
companies had fulltime sustainability officers than in 1995, and between 2003 and 2008, the number doubled again, research shows. (The first CSO with that title in an American publicly traded company is believed to be DuPont's Linda... View Details