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Dominic Mensah
years in the US, offering valuable strategies for transitioning. Ultimately, this moment after class with Shahaan, coupled with seeing myself in the case protagonist, reignited a passion I had been hesitant to fully embrace. It was a transformative View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated firms that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
Refugee Crisis,” which both he and Fabbe taught in May 2016 during the required first-year Business, Government, and the International Economy course. The case asks students to consider the issue from the point of view of European leaders who are struggling to View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this experience on staggered boards as a motivating case study, the article then examines a policy choice regarding Section 203 of the Delaware corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Jake Johnston
becoming a reconnaissance officer responsible for twenty-five pilots, ten Kiowa helicopters, and numerous maintenance personnel. "Our primary job was command and control air support for ground movement," Jake explains. "We... View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS
dog, Piper. We caught up with Annie to learn more about her and Piper’s experience at HBS. Were you nervous about coming to HBS with a dog?I was a little nervous that I'd feel like I was missing out on View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
women was the power to control their own money and time. Koehn quoted Josephine Baker, a factory worker who, in 1847, wrote, "The money we earn comes promptly and comes to us. When we are finished we feel perfectly free until the time to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
prior, arriving here with no contacts and no English, ready to start a new life. Seeing her would have been an emotional experience no matter what, but having been supported through chemo for the prior few months, arriving together on the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony-indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
live shots on big screens across campus. Knowing that the selfie would be temporary made people 1.2 times more likely to take and share a selfie than those in a control group, the researchers found. The promise of temporariness also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
takes away productivity." Fans of the television show, Alter Ego, in which avatars controlled by contestants competing to become the next pop star, would argue that Alter Ego is little more than an introduction to the Metaverse. They’re... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
of direct process control in which decisions have to be made "in the flow" in situations where there isn't time for conventional analysis (at least by humans). Is this a glimpse into the future of decision-making (without analysis... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
intended victim. (Ironically, in the meantime we have learned that the "worm" that attacked Iran's nuclear centrifuges and sent them whirling out of control and into self-destruction in all likelihood was carefully engineered... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
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Erika Sanchez
Boeing’s Enterprise Auditor Program “gave me broad exposure to different functions, from finance and program management to quality control and investor relations.” “A whole new level you can’t even imagine.” At Boeing, a mentor encouraged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg Pincus whose four decades of... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
institutional characteristics remain the same even as individual people come and go. Pioneering institutions such as Harvard and Yale first began granting Ph.D.s in the mid-nineteenth century. As graduates of their doctoral programs joined the faculties of other... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt... View Details