Natural Language Processing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

brain called the amygdala. This area processes sensory stimulation before it reaches the conscious part of the brain. If the amygdala perceives a threat, it boosts the production of adrenaline, increasing the heart rate and creating other... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)

21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

in the 1970s. Naturalization The process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

its reasonable hours allowed Cohen time to raise her children, Amanda (now a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council) and Eli (JD/MBA ’06). During her NTHP tenure, from 1980 to 1993, she focused on developing programs to preserve... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

they pursue internally, while relying heavily on outsourcing many of those activities to strategic partners. At the same time, they seek to increase the number and nature of product offerings, many of which are also offered by their... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the concept of the four-drive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

individuals clearly poses an extraordinary challenge. We refer to it as “leadership without control.” Explain the concept of alignment. Lorsch: Alignment refers to the ongoing process of designing organizational practices and structures... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Dec 2018
News

Bridging the Gap

school and college? And where are you starting to see the idea get traction? Falik: It starts with the language we use. The metaphor of a gap year is exactly the wrong one—this idea that you’re sending your kid into a gaping hole that... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

collaborations. "What I want to suggest to you is that what should drive the nature of this choice is the nature of the underlying technology," he said, "in particular, the degree to which you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

19 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Moving to the U.S. With a Family

lunch, I mentioned that we were expecting a baby over the summer. A few weeks after returning to London, we found a package in the mail from one of my new classmates and his fiancée – a perfect newborn sized “Harvard” onesie! Naturally we... View Details

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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

failures of different teams as they tried to navigate the large storms they faced. The second objective is to understand how crises always contain the possibility of substantial innovation. Some of this innovation occurs at an organizational level as the time pressures... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2001
News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

of the personal connection it already enjoyed? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process — and the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance — has been the subject of recent research by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant on Friday evening. Ferguson discussed the changing nature and role of leadership today, and illustrated his talk with an insider's view of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. “Alan was by no means... View Details

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Alumni Forums - Alumni

encourage members to discuss what is most important to them in an open and safe environment. It is natural for HBS alumni forum members to discuss business and career issues, but just as common to discuss personal issues, which are often... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

a dictionary that lists all the words in the English language but doesn't include their meanings." How those words are defined remains to be seen, but most analysts agree that if the 1990s belonged to the Internet, the new decade marks... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

plans, we find collaborative engagement of the functions to be a consistent process feature and operational norm encouraged and maintained by integrators. In particular, the information processing View Details