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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
PublicationsTrue North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development Authors:Bill George and Doug Baker Publication:Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2011 Abstract All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Okan Okutgen
motivations, strategies and develop their plan to break into new industries. As an international student himself, Okan has navigated the immigration system of the USA and experienced working under multiple visa types and hence can provide some useful View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53689 forthcoming Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
man-made," says Associate Professor Ramana Nanda, who studies entrepreneurial financing issues in the clean energy sector. "Depending on the person I speak to, I try to then make the following two arguments: "First, I point to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth segments in the communications... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private equity firm Summit... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
corporate performance. Using archival sources, Kang examined data from all publicly held firms in the U.S. textile industry from 1983 to 1992. "I was able to look at an industry with different kinds of owners over a long period of time,"... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
seek work once benefits ended, the authors examined a sample of low-income workers who typically have limited access to credit. Using detailed banking data from Earnin, a financial services company that offers workers access to their... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Ozik, and Sadka stop short of assigning a definitive explanation for this distortion of information, their research indicates that managers may provide misleading information for self-serving reasons: “The data suggest they may be... View Details
- Profile
Kira Epler
people from Kansas. I wanted to be surrounded by people from different backgrounds." The transition can be challenging. "I had to become comfortable speaking in front of ninety people every day. The case method is so different from what I learned in... View Details
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state or federal Do Not Call list. If you do not agree to these SMS Terms, do not sign up for Messages. You understand that you are subscribing to receive recurring Messages, sent by an automatic telephone dialing system, and that your carrier’s message and View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
actually thinking. And because there are eight to twelve people, there's just not enough time for each person to talk. The maximum number for effective interpersonal communication is three." Instead, hire professional interviewers to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most of us are becoming good at distilling the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
sadly, failing to understand each other. I pulled all my insights together into a book, which I hope will enlighten readers and also inspire people to commit to listening to each other. It’s clear to me that convincing “the other side” is less about talking and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
ecosystem has grown at an impressive rate," Deighton says. When indirect employment is calculated into the number of jobs that depend directly on the existence of the Internet, the study estimates that 5.1 million people owe their livelihoods to it. The report,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Bennett, Victor Manuel, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
– Base Salary. Are you curious about typical starting salaries for graduates from HBS? How about signing bonuses or other compensation? We share salary data on our website for full-time and internship roles broken out by industry,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Oliver Bladek
says. "But engineers in different functions don't like to talk to each other. So the drilling engineer specifies a four-inch hole, while the pipeline engineer plans for a six-inch hole. It took a lot of communication — plus rigorous View Details