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- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
structured products. New Investors, New Risk For the purposes of analyzing the implications for systemic risk, the new investors bring 2 important characteristics into play. First, many rely on external risk assessments rather than... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
do have to offer? What characteristics you bring to the table that will make your section that much better? I bet there are several things about you that no one else can claim, and that’s the good stuff. Tell admissions about them. ... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi... View Details
- Fast Answer
Business ownership: by gender, race and ethnicity
Where can I find data on U.S. businesses by gender, race, and ethnicity? U.S. Census Bureau: The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic View Details
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Concepts What Is a Platform? Value Creation and Capture Growth Factors Featured Exercise Articulate dynamic pricing’s benefits and drawbacks Define the most important characteristics of economies of scale Determine how platforms build... View Details
- May 2008
- Article
When Winning Is Everything
By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
Malhotra, Deepak, Gillian Ku, and J. Keith Murnighan. "When Winning Is Everything." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 5 (May 2008).
- 2010
- Working Paper
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16645, December 2010.
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
Summing Up Under what conditions do teams, introverts, and innovation go together? Properly structured and led, teams can support innovative thinking that depends on contributions from both extroverts and introverts. That's the consensus of respondents to this month's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
No, I really don’t. He never developed those characteristics that most of us associate with success. What he did do was keep striving to add even more value. Is Wilson’s influence still felt at Xerox today? Anne Mulcahy is the CEO at... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
complete abandonment of the current system. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13213 Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Li Jin Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Eisenmann explains some of the distinctive characteristics of the program: “The students have access to a host of entrepreneurship resources, including HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Harvard Innovation Labs; the chance to... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
depending on the types of skills individuals hope to acquire. Further work could also be done in other industries; while the high-tech and film worlds are far apart in some sense, they share the common characteristic of highly skilled,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
typically bring deep expertise from other industries. Through his coaching conversations with students, Jonathan has found, “Students in the past few years have been especially drawn to growth equity as it combines characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
open mind. He had a great personality and was honest and honorable and in every sense a “good guy.” I am sure that he continued to have all of these characteristics as a faculty member. K. Martin Worthy (MBA 5/’43) St. Simons Island, GA... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
had invested in was struggling, Hawes's sense of obligation to his investors took him and his family to Tampa to work with the failing enterprise. "It took us a year and a half," he recalled with characteristic enthusiasm, "but we fixed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence
By: Jennifer M. Logg, Uriel Haran and Don A. Moore
Are overconfident beliefs driven by the motivation to view oneself positively? We test the relationship between motivation and overconfidence using two distinct, but often conflated, measures: better-than-average (BTA) beliefs and overplacement. Our results suggest... View Details
Keywords: Self-perception; Overconfidence; Motivation; Better-Than-Average Effect; Specifically; Personal Characteristics; Perception; Motivation and Incentives; Cognition and Thinking
Logg, Jennifer M., Uriel Haran, and Don A. Moore. "Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-099, April 2018.
- January – February 2011
- Article
Stop Holding Yourself Back
By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
Morriss, Anne, Robin J. Ely, and Frances X. Frei. "Stop Holding Yourself Back." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011).