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  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

strategy to engage a broad audience through telling an interesting and important story being played out in twenty-first-century organizations. Q: What makes a CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

deployed, couldn’t understand why the military would design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?”... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • June 2003 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Molded Dimensions, Inc.

By: H. Kent Bowen, Virginia Fuller and Doren Spinner
Mike Katz, an MBA with several years of manufacturing management experience, talks about purchasing Molded Dimensions, Inc. (MDI), a Wisconsin-based plastics manufacturer, with his wife Linda, who also has a manufacturing background. The case describes at length... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Jobs and Positions; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Negotiation Process; Manufacturing Industry; Wisconsin
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  • September 2020
  • Article

Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details

    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • 15 Jul 2019
    • Blog Post

    Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles

    As a former consultant at EY-Parthenon, part of Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate Tayler Danziger’s (MBA 2020) job included travelling all over the U.S. and Europe, advising clients on growth strategy. Little did she... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 11 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

    design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21, 2015

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49388 Enabling Versus Controlling By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 May 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: May 20, 2008

      Working PapersGender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 08 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

    heaps of potential players, but not enough time for transactions to be made, accepted, or rejected effectively. "Safety" refers to an environment in which all parties feel secure enough to make decisions based on their best... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 16 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

    results of my work. Startup recruiting for MBAs can be challenging. Most people in your class have already secured jobs and you need to be patient while waiting for the startups which recruit last-minute.... View Details
    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000 arbitration cases in View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    Papers in progress

    • “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
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    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    a discussion about the profound impact of AI on marketing operations, including visualization and copyrighting, hyper-personalization, media planning and buying, and general efficiency and organizational knowledge. The session will delve into how AI-driven strategies... View Details
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    Placement - Doctoral

    studies, are uniquely individualized. Factors like departmental fit, location preferences, dual career choices, and family needs shape these decisions. We celebrate when students secure a position that brings them joy! Students are... View Details
    • 25 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

    Members of these colleges’ sports teams secure higher-level jobs and better pay after graduation than their non-athlete peers, finds the analysis of more than 400,000 Ivy Leaguers over the past half-century.... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

    Information, and Financial Education Programs Author:Annamaria Lusardi Abstract Individuals are increasingly in charge of their own financial security after retirement. But how well-equipped are individuals to make saving decisions; do... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5, 2006

    sample company invested in marketing, ex ante, at levels close to those that would have maximized returns, observed ex post. Managing Creativity in Small Worlds Authors:Lee Fleming and Matt Marx Periodical:California Management Review 48, no. 4 (summer 2006) Abstract... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 21

    India's economic prospects looked bright for a developing country—it had a well-trained government bureaucracy bequeathed by the British, a secure legal system, national railroads, and more advanced industry than, for example, China. Why... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne