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09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

to nurture a friendship via Facebook. Consequently, participants fell into one of four conditions: professional/low-power, professional/high-power, personal/low-power, or personal/high-power. After the online networking activity, everyone completed the aforementioned... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

work. Workers who prefer to work from home may find increased productivity, reduced commute time, and a lower quit rate because they are overall happier. For clients, this experience, together with investments made by the call centers... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

negotiate only considering the interests of those at the bargaining table when those who are not at the table will be affected by what is negotiated and can assert their rights or power in the future. A typical strength of family negotiations is that family members... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

customers or potential customers require it of them. So these programs are rippling through supply chains through perceived buyer preferences and in some cases, buyer mandates. In my dissertation work, I looked at the ISO 14001... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Political Preferences ; Institutions ; Trade ; Global Range ; Economics ; Government and Politics Citation Find at Harvard Purchase Related Tabellini, Marco, and Giacomo Magistretti. "Economic Integration and the Transmission of... View Details

18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

joke, based on participants’ previous preferences for certain jokes. Who was the better judge of humor? The computer. Algorithms accurately picked the jokes that people deemed funniest 61 percent of the time, whereas humans were correct... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

Congress. "These Americans would come here to live, make their homes here, and they would prefer to live under the dominion of the American government, under American laws." Thatcher's plan to create civil government in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

get work done." Just how flexible should companies be? That’s a question many business leaders are wrestling with as they try to balance the needs of the business with the preferences of their employees. Applying lessons gleaned from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

algorithm will show me the comedy picture. Someone else might see the action picture if they like action movies. The algorithm might introduce a little randomness, too, and depending on our reactions, it will learn about our preferences... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

say, a product firm. Consequently, a product firm may not be attractive to various knowledge workers who prefer to work in the consulting environment. A fourth driver is the demand for process and behavior change that IT implementation... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

initiatives and core priorities, and donors have the option to direct their gift specifically to faculty, case writing, and research . Some donors prefer to set up their own fund, which can be targeted to faculty development or a specific... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

going to change the world,” he says. “It’s about how people can make real changes to structures.” White people prefer to spend time with Whites The US is becoming more racially diverse, with some studies predicting the country will be... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Contact Us Contact Us If you happen to be off campus or would prefer to attend virtually for any reason, you can also join us via Zoom: Web Conference Link: https://hbs.zoom.us/j/479352769 Audio-only Phone Dial In: 888-475-4499 (US... View Details

20 Mar 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar & Gui Yang; Financial Services

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

takes you next. Learn More about the HBS Online Learning Model HBS Online vs. Other Top Business Schools with Online, Asynchronous Courses HBS Online HBSO Others Considered more impactful than other online programs by learners* Yes No The View Details

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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. Part-time workers are heterogeneous, with a variety of attributes that... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

imposed their own preferences on the process, which meant they defaulted to safer bets, even after being instructed to assign triple weight to transformational potential. It’s a natural response, Krieger explains: “Scientists have been... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

to publicly observable variables, then the bond market would only react to the release of these variables and not to the policy announcements. Stein and Sunderam posit that private information and preference for volatility smoothing of... View Details

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

increased more than 1,100%. As new wealth continues to pour into foundations, the authors take a timely look at the field and conclude that radical change is needed. First, they explain why. Compared with direct giving, foundations are strongly favored through tax... View Details

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