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- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
were less thorough, and the managers and lawyers we interviewed while conducting our research raised concerns about the extent to which reforms were effectively implemented. Our results do not indicate that the more limited reforms in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
consistent with our field interviews of R&D executives from laboratories involved in our study. The study provides further evidence of the geographically bounded nature of knowledge. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
bad person through interviews and so on. And I think I started out at FreeMarkets with too much confidence in that area. So as a result, my team and I have made some mistakes in hiring. We have been humbled and realize that, boy, it's not... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Receiving an unexpected professional status bump doesn't always feel good, especially if it wasn't really earned. Companies need to be aware of potential problems with unearned status gain, and be ready with solutions, says Tsedal Neeley. ‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
Affect Job Performance, which was published in January. The costs of homesickness To better understand how moving away from home affects work, Choudhury and co-author HBS doctoral student Ochan Kwon first interviewed 30 employees of an... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto fielded questions about their article in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Garvin and Roberto discuss the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
suggestions, including: 1) designing "a practicum where MBA students [with a focus] on ethics ... practice ... hiring/interviewing skills ... by interviewing 'short list' candidates that are being strongly considered for admission by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
instance, the Nobel Prize. Specific quotes from extensive field interviews support the development of the new CBIRM and its broader managerial relevance and applicability. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
education sector. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-081 Solar Geoengineering On December 8, 2013, as Dr. David Keith was leaving the set of the Colbert Show, he couldn't help but replay the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
situations. Filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies change our minds; and revolutionary strategies like "power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
Slovakia highlights the fact that the beliefs and views of a country on what is fair [do] matter for the long-term sustainability of reforms," says Alfaro. Alfaro, Dessain, and Jensen joined forces for an e-mail interview with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
and to show up at interviews when invited. The government deliberately hired candidates from each group. It's too soon to gauge which group will yield the best performers, since the candidates have just started working. But the initial... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
predecessors of ABB, the global engineering giant. In a 1991 interview in Harvard Business Review, he noted that: We had no choice but to do it secretly and to do it quickly.… There were no lawyers, no auditors, no environmental... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
will emerge. 2. Listen All The Time Science writer Malcolm Gladwell interviewed two Los Angeles policemen who staked their own lives on their ability to read other people's intentions. One of the officers chose not to shoot a wild-eyed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
impostors? Will the person overcome by fears and uncertainty let it show differently than a candidate unconsciously using the feeling to succeed? Should we even allow anyone to interview them, instead relying solely on what such imposters... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
of votes a single shareholder could have to restrictions on the number of family members who could act as directors simultaneously," Musacchio says. We interviewed Musacchio about the research findings that underpin his new book,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
objective is to build on Selznick's seminal work to investigate the value proposition of leadership consistent with institutional theory. We examine public interview transcripts from 52 senior executives and discover that leaders'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
as well as economic value and who pair micromanagement with big-picture aspirations about the future. The authors, who have studied, taught, and interviewed executives in some of the world's leading companies, assert that such leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne