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13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Officer for Major League Baseball + More Info – Less Info As the chief operations and strategy officer for Major League Baseball (MLB), Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) helped launch the headline-grabbing innovations the league rolled out this season to make the View Details

26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek, and Sang-Hoon Kim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2024
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Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology

06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

style game of asking yes-or-no questions about a group of faces pictured, half white and half African-American. The authors suggest that people's discomfort and avoidance of referring to race imposes costs in terms of information... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

their lives and their histories. Where did they come from? Why were they excited to work at Best Buy? How did their personal purpose connect with what they were doing at work? I did not feel I could lead our team if I could now answer these questions. What might sound... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Capital Financing of Climate-tech Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-025, November 2024. Nvidia By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins October 2024 | Case | Faculty Research This case study examines Nvidia's strategic pivot from View Details

05 Dec 2022
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5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

wider pool of talent. Workers and potential employees can take control, too, by: Being realistic about which jobs are available where they live. Too often, says Fuller, young workers will study in fields like video game programming that... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

how to preserve ethical discipline when the legal rules of the game are ambiguous and executives stand to reap enormous rewards by exaggerating or camouflaging a company's true economic performance, I outline organizational processes that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

06 Dec 2022
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Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

eating gummies, and they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s the revised gummy, yum yum, it tastes better,’” says John. In another study in which participants played a video game labeled as “version 5,” they even reported enjoying the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail

September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih

This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology

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Organizational Behavior Reading: Decision Making

By: Francesca Gino, Max Bazerman and Katherine Shonk

This Reading argues that decision making is systematically flawed and introduces methods to improve decision-making effectiveness. The Essential Reading section covers the rational decision-making model and three important ideas that challenge it: Herbert Simon's... View Details

Keywords: Game Theory; Decision Making

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01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much organizational identity research has grappled... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
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Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course wins. Of course, when both... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

metrics, and leveraging data from the men’s game to further highlight Greenwood’s value and counter potential arguments from Manchester City. It also describes the outcome of Greenwood’s negotiations, and considers the implications of... View Details

12 Apr 2022
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Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

has enormous influence on the American social fabric. Knowing who likes you changes the game McFowland and his fellow researchers partnered with a large North American dating platform, dubbed monCherie.com, for a 2021 working paper titled... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

07 Jun 2012
Working Paper Summaries

How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

insurance and all that stuff. So that’s a game changer for most automotive companies. What does it mean, and how is it going to change who they are and how they do what they do?” Gulati also notes some wartime parallels between the FBI’s... View Details