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- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
conclusions about the costs of hiding information carry implications for individuals and companies alike. It turns out that who benefits from disclosing information has everything to do with how they reveal it. Match Game In What Hiding... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
and dilemmas. During discussions about the gaming platform Roblox, AI chatbot Replika AI, and crypto-native venture capital fund Electric Capital, students are exposed to the challenges of the rapidly evolving tech landscape, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. ©iStockphoto/Brian Jackson In a follow-up laboratory study, participants played a game in which they could make money by successfully predicting the outcome of a computerized coin toss.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
by asymmetric information—in other words, managers have a lot of information, and investors don’t know if they can trust them. We’re all engaged in a large information game where agents don’t always do what their principals want them to.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
ever for a batting champion. This year, no American League batter hit above 0.315. Gazette: So, the decline in offense is hurting the game? Greyser: The lack of operational offense. Meaning, yes, there are home runs, but the excitement of the View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
entrepreneurship post-graduation, having the chance to build something meaningful while at HBS is a transformative experience that can help you grow in many unexpected ways. VIDEO GAMING Wabantu Hlohpe (MBA 2024) Wabantu is a member of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
get its case history, diagnose its problems, and only then solve them. Invented by the scholars who launched Harvard Business School, this medical model will still cure companies today. During the last 30 years, business schools embraced the presumptions of economists,... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 03 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
at people's scores in a game, and guess how well they would do in the subsequent round. "We wanted to see if we could eliminate the bias by providing people with full information," Gino says. But even when subjects were told that these scores were subjective,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
fund. A hedge fund investor must have at least $1.5 million in net worth to invest. The funds are regulated little and do not report their activities, trades, and balances. The smaller investor cannot play this game successfully. He or... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
future,' it's clear to me that's the way things will turn out." But Chiofaro's career path hasn't always seemed so certain. After graduating in 1968 from Harvard College (where, as a bone-crunching linebacker, he captained the football team) and after a few View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
adversaries as well as with colleagues within your organization? In this Q&A, James Sebenius and David Lax, authors of 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals, discuss the common mistakes of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
to those in need. On April 29, 2011, the Eagles returned to their stadium to play their first home game since the disaster seven weeks earlier. With tremendous effort, the heavily damaged facility had been repaired, and the Eagles were... View Details
- 01 May 2023
- News
Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr
connect fandom to social gaming while elevating our ability to execute through expanded resources, new partnerships, and technological capabilities." In a June 2022 Bulletin article, the cofounders shared that they began working on Wagr... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Iansiti and MacCormack discuss their findings.Silverthorne: Although many large companies have been swamped by so-called disruptive technologies, Microsoft has remained at the top of its game for more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
the most successful business in one country may fail in another if it doesn’t develop customer empathy in the new market. Just ask Walmart about how their expansion into South Korea went (not well). Karaoke, local coffee shops, frequent outings for food and snacks, a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
perhaps more so than in any other industry, as the right answer to improve performance. Owners look to their team managers (coaches) to be game changers and bring back success to the organization, especially when the manager is hired in a... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
school, and averaged 28 points per game playing basketball. A teacher said, ‘Why don’t you test yourself against the big boys and girls back East?’ So at 16, by myself, I flew to Bradley Field, took a Greyhound bus around New England to... View Details