Patterns - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

Noted After the data were analyzed, a clear pattern emerged: Countries requiring corporate sustainability reporting experienced a significant improvement in most categories. For social responsibility, for example, those countries improved... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Europe - Global Activities 2020

York Stock Exchange to drum up economic activity. It includes a country overview and lengthy summary of four centuries of history, including Serbia’s many decades as a dominant member of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. With a complicated View Details

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

information and communication appears to be driven not as much by gender as by control: men whose wives control household savings are much more likely to exhibit this treatment effect, and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the same View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

toward creating the most fitting communication pattern for the negotiation overall. In our studies, my colleagues and I have identified six basic forms of interaction: haggling, fighting, working together, opening up, building a... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

of war. We have reached the tipping point where Pax Americana now threatens Brand America. For some, the problem is the Bush administration's pattern of unilateral decision making. For others, especially in Europe, Bush's manner has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

Alumni Books

Publishing) The most dangerous problems are those you don’t know about. Roberto presents seven skill sets useful for uncovering such problems: how to get past dangerous information “filtering”; watch how people behave, not what they say; pick meaningful View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Multiple generations of computing

computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data. In reflecting on her career trajectory, Dubinsky says: “It’s... View Details

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

result of neural activity. By attaching electrodes to subjects' heads and evaluating the electrical patterns of their brain waves, researchers can track the intensity of visceral responses such as anger, lust, disgust, and excitement.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Katy Lankester

is an excellent way to train the muscles of judgement, because you build pattern recognition, you hear well-reasoned opposing viewpoints, and your thinking is pushed until it is reasoned and consistent. How has your overall HBS experience... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks 1998 | About

connection to water. These works explore patterns of flow and movement, and function not unlike fountains. The sculptures were initially formed in wet clay that Benglis hand cut and pounded into rectangular, square and triangular sheets.... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations

year. On April 9, a letter to the HBS community from Dean Kim B. Clark and a statement from the Faculty and Staff Standards Committee (FSSC) reported the results of an investigation that had found a pattern of behavior within one class... View Details

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

spurious face-like pattern in a rock than miss a predator," the researchers write in their paper "Multivoxel Patterns in Face-Sensitive Temporal Regions Reveal an Encoding Schema Based on Detecting Life in a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2017
News

Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity

the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a Danish social enterprise organization, the initiative taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, including attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive... View Details

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

change. The emphasis is on "us," not "them." At this point, the company's business model and organizational chart might be re-evaluated. Kanter recalled the concept of "kaleidoscope thinking" she detailed in Evolve. Leaders look to shake... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

pattern of actions guide it. He is attempting to give you that philosophy and pattern of action, and to help you develop your own." George E. McCown (HBS MBA '62), Research Assistant to Georges Doriot, 1962... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

College Daze

UPromise, a family of typical income and spending patterns might accrue as much as $50,000 after fifteen years of participation in the company's program. "Finding money for college is one of the biggest problems families face these days,"... View Details

25 Oct 2018
News

Bringing the Background into Focus

material about her, I became aware of how extensive her legacy was with a pattern of images that exist across the last 160 or so years.” The Times article also notes the challenges that Murrell has faced in her quest to secure support for... View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

when disruptions hit. The most impressive brands are those that are able to use disruptions as a platform to enhance the delivery of cultural value." To analyze the pattern of cultural demand and the strategies that brands use for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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