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  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

Because they’re so busy and often surrounded by people, it feels as if they’re engaged and involved. Similarly, CEOs receive a stream of communication from a variety of sources, so they may not realize that they’re filtering out... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

offerings with price-insensitive consumers. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52177 Fake Discounts Drive Real Revenues in Retail By: Ngwe, Donald Abstract—Prices in a wide variety of contexts are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. However, little is known... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

Opportunities. Measures skills and behaviors associated with the ability to identify and seek out high-potential business opportunities. Vision and Influence. Measures skills and behaviors associated with the ability to influence all... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on later-stage investments? Should he... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Resources for New Alumni - Alumni

Careers Resources for New Alumni Careers Resources for New Alumni Career & Professional Development (CPD) continues to offer a breadth of support for your career development as an HBS alumnus, whether you are seeking coaching, career... View Details
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

“returnship” programs Search online, or tap your networking community, for more formal programs or coaching engagements that can reinforce your search with outside support and help. There are many reasons alumni seek flexible or project... View Details
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods (correlational and experimental) demonstrating that happier people give... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

their organizational structures. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54625 forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research Learning to Become a Taste Expert By: Deighton, John A., and Kathryn A. Latour Abstract—Evidence suggests that consumers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

For a better shot at landing the top job at today’s companies, aspiring CEOs should set aside their slide presentations and work on their listening skills instead, new research suggests. Companies are increasingly seeking socially adept... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and organizations operate in society. It then highlights what it takes to implement societal change. This includes a wide variety of... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the organization seeks to boost their relative share of the scarce resources. This competitive drive to excel others is the greatest source of the restless energy that people bring to the workplace. If this were the only drive in play, it... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

decisions involving sustainability issues. Cases are set in a variety of industry contexts, including energy, agriculture, transportation, chemicals, and investment. Some of the environment-related cases recently taught (Spring and Fall... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

providing a curated list of resources on frequently discussed topics. SAS staff are also able to meet with students to discuss wellness concerns and strategize individualized solutions. Mental Health Resources Students may seek personal... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

highest scores. Advice-seekers Make Mistakes People who seek advice make a variety of mistakes, including: Choosing the wrong advisers, particularly by turning only to those with like-minded ideas, rather... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

paper seeks to alter the framing of this debate by asking, instead, "When does leadership matter?" We develop a "contingent opportunities" theory of leadership and empirically examine our predictions on a dataset of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele