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29 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It

17 Mar 2021
Blog Post

The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

vision that I am now pursuing. I wove a narrative of an audacious moonshot dream, of literally going to mine the moon--combining my professional and academic experiences as a mining engineer and my personal interest as a space enthusiast. Now, as a second year MBA... View Details

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

"Substantial recent research implies that clustering—the degree to which people with whom a person is connected are themselves connected to each other—can improve problem-solving performance by increasing coordination," the authors View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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Citation guides

Where can I find the proper format for citing a source? Students can use the HBS Citation Guide for guidance in writing papers and projects and also take advantage of our online learning module, Learn with Baker Library: Citing... View Details

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

scuba divers. Layton, p. 52. Thomas Layton writes that “Warfare, and its consequent disruption of normal maritime commerce, ensured a strong demand for fast vessels to evade British and French warships and sneak cargo into blockaded... View Details

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Events - Business History

Duke University May 9 09 May 2019 Conference Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism This two-day workshop brought together scholars in the fields of history, economics, and management to explore the unconventional as it relates to researching and... View Details

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. How often have you heard a manager blame... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

judgment and competence (logic), and when they believe that you care about them (empathy). When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of these three drivers. You can find the roots of this framework in Aristotle’s View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Program

Public Education Leadership Project

the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more... View Details

16 Apr 2013
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Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies to institutional and retail... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2013
Working Paper

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

By: Richard L. Nolan

This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; CIO; CEO; Hero's Journey; Monomyth; Management; Practice; Cases; Theory; Innovation and Invention

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29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

Keywords: by Michael Luca; Food & Beverage

Trust

Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

rank,” the researchers write in the article, The Dynamics of Gender and Alternatives in Negotiation, which was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Asked whether the classroom setting of the negotiations included in the study... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

Foreign Policy, July-August 2003], I became so fascinated with China that I began to travel extensively there. In the course of writing this book I spent time with all sorts of people in better and the less well-traversed parts of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

really your life. This is his story. And the question is, are you going to play your part? Are you going to write your chapter? So I do think that as an African American CEO in corporate America, I really have a responsibility looking... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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Aldrich Hall | About

continuous writing surfaces; moveable blackboards and projection screens; and several different kinds of lighting were radical at the time, but ideally suited to the dynamic interactions among students and teachers during case-method... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

leaders who create arcane and tedious processes can kill employee morale and cripple company performance just as quickly as an adversary who pours sand into the gas tank of a company vehicle, Thomke writes in the MIT Sloan Management... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

cannot provide tax advice. Do I have to write a thank-you letter to my donor? Fellowship recipients are matched with the donors who make this program possible. Donors appreciate hearing about your work and how the fellowship has supported... View Details

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