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20 Oct 2015
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What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

however, have been completely unexpected. There are the small things: falling in love with Argentina, my FIELD 2 location; observing a classmate experience the most romantic proposal I’ve ever seen; seeing the hilarious HBS Show But there... View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

a problem, and analyze your organization's capacity for innovative thinking. Highlights What Is Innovation? Structuring Observations Using Journey Maps Changing Lives Through Innovation at BMVSS What Is Problem Framing? Show Hide Details... View Details

23 May 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China

Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna

2024
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Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

Mark Twain observed that, “Prediction is very difficult—particularly when it involves the future,” and he was right. One way to reduce the risk of becoming an infamous forecaster—like the experts who told us the Internet would quickly collapse, that Apple would never... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Business and Government Relations; Organizations; Power and Influence; Society

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13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

through those ties and may take pride in a reputation for a higher standard of performance when observed by a valued peer, the researchers note. In some ways, analogous effects may be observed in customer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

brings MBA students and industry leaders together to learn what every MBA needs to know about the business implications of climate change. Each year, BEI sponsors students to attend the conference. COP Student Observers Funding Program :... View Details

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Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance

26 Mar 2014
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Brian Kahin, MIT

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

of a market and then moves up. “His theory has very much shaped what I have chosen to do with the second part of my life,” observes Wolf, a former Goldman Sachs analyst. “Those that are given opportunity via education can transform their... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

they assess future risks in good times? Are there underlying principles that help an outside observer recognize potential errors in beliefs? How do markets learn? Size and Structure of the Financial Sector What explains the growth of... View Details

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Teams app to Office 365 in 2017. Microsoft executives briefly considered buying Slack, but founder Bill Gates reportedly opposed the move. "New companies like Slack emerge with a great product, better than Microsoft has, and then Microsoft View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

that they would take steps to address the feedback and improve as compared to women who just read the reviews, and the gender difference disappeared. Ask questions As part of my research on annual performance reviews, I’ve observed many... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

how it can help us understand difference. Frei: I recommend that you bring together a group of people who are having challenges or feeling frustrated, center on them, and then ask them: What have you experienced or observed that is... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and his subject matter simultaneously, and by removing... View Details

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Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?

By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Gulick

In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this milestone, the country’s brand image internationally was far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry... View Details

Keywords: Branding; Brand Management Of Places; Nation Branding; Brand Positioning; Public Diplomacy; Marketing Communication; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Perception; Change; Israel

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the autumn of 2001 to 74 foundation executives, CEOs, and expert observers of philanthropy. View All Related Resources Corporate Philanthropy Corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context--the quality... View Details

05 May 2020
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China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

websites of hundreds of online retailers to track how they change over time. “What is distinguishing about our paper is that we observe prices not only at the border, but we can also see the impact in retail prices,” Cavallo says.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

mission-driven coworkers. I spent my weekends exploring Colorado’s stunning mountains, chasing wildflowers, and of course, visiting other national parks nearby. We even got to go on a site visit out to Biscayne National Park in Florida, to View Details

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

until they hit the right formula. In reality, that’s problematic, says Chung. “If you want to know if a compensation plan is working or not, you need to change the compensation plan and observe and measure the change in productivity,... View Details