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23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

George C. Lodge

Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

efficiency to electrification to generating their own carbon-free electricity, and the pros and cons of these pathways. Climate Rising Host: Professor Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment Initiative Guests: Melissa Lott,... View Details

31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

coupled search processes can dramatically obscure the true impact of design on performance, confounding empirical research. We identify research strategies for tackling this difficulty; discuss population-level advantages of coupled... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jan 2018
News

The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (June 2010) Abstract Widely used online "trust" authorities... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. "A lot of discrimination happens because... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

countries, the conversation has to shift from talking about whether diversity affects performance to talking about the conditions under which you'd expect diversity to have a positive effect on performance." This article is part of a continuing series on View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Global

Montevideo Latin America Research Center – São Paulo Mexico City Office Mid-US Research Center Middle East and North Africa Research Center Nairobi Office Singapore Office Tel... View Details

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Have You Checked out Podcasts from HBS?

Whether you are commuting, exercising, or just on the move, you can't always engage with the written word. HBS podcasts offer a great way to absorb information of all kinds, from business thought leadership to cultural trends. Get insight on current business topics... View Details

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

have transformed themselves into highly competitive organizations. Although a considerable body of research has traced the macroeconomic reforms of these emerging economies, little post-reform evaluation, other than isolated case studies,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

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Asia Pacific - Global

presence, the School has been able to enhance the breadth and depth of faculty research and case studies in the Asia-Pacific region. Locations Harvard Center Shanghai Shanghai, China Asia-Pacific View Details

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Key Dates - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Key Dates 1ms June 2025 Jun 04 June 4 and June 5 2025 Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village Move In Dates Move into Harvard housing on either June 4 or... View Details

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Latin America - Global

Latin America Mexico City, Montevideo, São Paulo HBS has had a longstanding footprint in Latin America for over 20 years. The Latin America Research Center (LARC) opened in 2000 to satisfy strong interest on the part of the HBS View Details

2014
Working Paper

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin

This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details

Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education

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23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

difficult to understand and implement. We introduce the 4 Minds framework as a practical tool for understanding and applying the science of decision-making in the marketplace. We synthesize previous research on decision-making into four... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Turkey, North Africa, and Central Asia. Support for faculty research, student programming, Executive Education, and Harvard Business Publishing are enabled by these HBS locations. Locations Middle East and North Africa View Details

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration and faculty cochair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, set out with Adler-Milstein to discover what happens to productivity when doctors delegated their data entry. Did it free up their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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