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- 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
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. It was biased judgment on the part of supposedly unbiased referees and umpires. They hypothesize that the cause is a natural tendency to avoid excessive booing by the home team crowd, particularly in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
a football game between our two schools, Howard University and Morehouse College. What began as a friendship turned into a love that grew over several years of long-distance dating, six cities, two separate MBA application cycles, and way... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
evaluate employees based on outcomes rather than hours spent working or seeming to work,” Brodsky says. When employees don’t have work to do, managers can reward them by allowing them to surf the internet, read, or play video games or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. This historic baseball park built in 1912 is one of the cathedrals of the sport. You’ll want to get tickets in advance! Visit Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, or Nantucket. If you have time, head east for a few... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
different? A couple of things. One is that more companies are being born global. In the '80s and the '90s, our focus was really more about how established successful companies adapted to the booming global environment. The game was being... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video game developers to embed... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
multiplies. Kost: What lessons do you hope executives will take from your book? Teixeira: That the game has changed. In the past, there were a few big companies competing with each other. Coke versus Pepsi. Airbus versus Boeing. GE and... View Details
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Current Research
Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
toll COVID was taking, rather than downplaying the number of lives lost, the researchers say. “We were in a huge guessing game over how best to stop the spread,” Rouen says. “If the numbers aren’t accurate, then we can’t accurately... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
process, in which diverse views are able to provide input with no one party able to receive a special voice. "As the chairman of Goldman Sachs or Citigroup or IBM, you have a substantial capacity to structure the rules of the game... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
student made a Choose Your Own Adventure computer game about making the right choices in a workplace environment. (When Frei played the game, "I ended up getting fired.") One of the most moving projects in the class, she says,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
solutions to educational gaming to online learning courses for computers in classrooms. This interest and activity should allow us to make great progress in the years ahead. We also recommend investing in technological platforms that will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
the Internet to their overall store model. Much like the story of the frog in the slowly boiling water, they are finding out late in the game that their physical store businesses are fundamentally unsustainable. Given the item assortments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a... View Details