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08 Nov 2021
News

New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

of the School’s research efforts,” said Victoria W. Winston, executive director of the HBS Global Initiative. “Alicia will work closely with HBS faculty and experts in the field, developing case studies, managing research projects,... View Details

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

strategic intent. This book of cases provides real examples of these challenges. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52557 forthcoming Management Science If You're Going to Do Wrong, at Least Do It Right:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51714 Harvard Business School Case 517-035 Dwyane Wade In July 2016, while on his annual China tour to help promote the sportswear brand Li-Ning, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade and his... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a function only of its cardinality. The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Apr 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

dialogue, allowing us to delve into and learn from each other's viewpoints on complex business issues. This aspect of the HBS educational approach, particularly through the case method, has enriched my understanding by exposing me to... View Details

18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

strong interaction between financing choices for innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519572 Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

many firms. The article examines not only the types of risk found in different environments, but also how interviewees discussed and responded to risk. In the case of corruption, although most countries surveyed had similarly high levels... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-021.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

of the ongoing debate over whether college athletes should be paid, given the large amounts of money they bring in. Two pending court cases would give college athletes the right to be paid—a move staunchly opposed by the NCAA. Meanwhile,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

broad-based corporate governance reforms were implemented goes expressly against the prediction of prior schools of thought about business groups. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf Cases & Course... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

efforts to redesign workspaces and processes so they are better integrated with patients' needs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-023.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

access knowledge in their component divisions, while maintaining the competitiveness of those divisions by selling goods to external customers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-076.pdf Cases & Course... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

their products, most demand the same from themselves. In so doing, they are at risk of letting their egos take over and letting their protective shells harden. When things go wrong—which they inevitably do—they assume the fault lies elsewhere. Yet in most View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

insights into foreign policy, statecraft, and world order have been widely discussed. Yet surprisingly, until this book, his impressive achievements as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

“I’ve heard of cases where the employees are encouraged to use an intervention program, and they look at their managers and their managers are not doing it,” Parks says. “Employees need to see their managers taking time out to do this,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

28 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health

24 Mar 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg

Forthcoming
Article

Uprooting Loneliness: A Theory of Continuity-Breaking Self-Narrative Change

By: Jennifer Petriglieri and Elizabeth Sheprow

Through an inductive study of executives reporting persistent loneliness at work, we examine how problematic work experiences can be rooted in the self through narratives, and the process by which they can be uprooted. In the case of loneliness, we found that... View Details

Keywords: Lonelines; Narratives; Qualitative Method; Well-being; Emotions; Employees

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