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- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
Program. Graduates earn two degrees in two years and are prepared to grow transformative organizations that will advance new drug discoveries or therapeutics. HIVES: Classrooms in Batten Hall designed with FIELD courses in mind to facilitate small View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
What Makes the HBS MBA unique?
incredible variety of geographies, industries, functions, and backgrounds. You take all of your first year classes together and socialize outside of class. The case method pairs beautifully with the section experience as you learn from... View Details
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
competition is restricted. Using 28 million vehicle emissions tests from more than 11,000 facilities, we show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a service quality attribute that customers value but is illegal and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm
By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late June 2005, UBS Group CEO Peter Wuffli--anointed "Master of Zurich" by the financial press--was returning to Zurich from the firm's latest three-day Senior Leadership Conference (SLC). Tapping 600 top managers, this SLC featured an outdoor event at a former... View Details
Lal, Rajiv, Nitin Nohria, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm." Harvard Business School Case 506-026, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
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Current working papers
Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
- Article
No Evidence for an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students
By: Georgia Rada Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk and Bernd Weber
Intertemporal choices between a smaller sooner and a larger delayed reward are one of the most important types of decisions humans face in their everyday life. The degree to which individuals discount delayed rewards correlates with impulsiveness. Steep delay... View Details
Keywords: Delay Discounting; Impulsiveness; Intertemporal Choice; Testosterone; Decision Making; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
Rada Ortner, Georgia, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk, and Bernd Weber. "No Evidence for an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students." Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, no. 9 (September 2013): 1814–1818.
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
career after graduation. On the social front, I organized concert outings in Boston and embraced my DJ hobby by becoming our designated Section I DJ during retreats and hosting “Zoom parties” for my MBA class. These experiences not only... View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
questions. "The Internet makes it so easy for people to aggregate; some scholars worry that people will self-select into groups with a similar ideology," says Zhu. As a result, the Internet may lead to more biased opinions, which only... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
many firms can improve. And if we can get people to manage better, we think they can keep more employees and be more successful.” Through social interactions with other hands-on managers, founders can discover not only why they should use... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- April 2004 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Columbia's Final Mission
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman and Erika Ferlins
Describes the 16-day final mission of the space shuttle Columbia in January 2003 in which seven astronauts died. Includes background on NASA and the creation of the human space flight program, including the 1970 Apollo 13 crisis and 1986 Challenger disaster. Examines... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Aerospace Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission." Harvard Business School Case 304-090, April 2004. (Revised May 2010.)
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
groups in India, it’s this last detail that is the sweetest: “I observed these young girls, on the periphery of the group, seeing women who are coming together to support each other. Women who are running businesses, women who are saving,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
Summing Up Among responses to this month's column, there was little disagreement with the premise that attitude trumps skills in the selection of new employees. C. J. Cullinane commented: "Attitude is all! I have worked with a group... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
strong incentives to impose restrictions on women’s promiscuity. “The gender gaps in labor market participation, micro-entrepreneurship, or business ownership more generally seem to also partly reflect this social norm against women.”... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 30 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me
House (with hashbrowns covered and capped obviously), and the merits of the word "y'all" as the most efficient method of addressing a group of people. I've said "this case reminds me of my time in the paper products supply chain" more... View Details
- December 1999
- Article
Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams
By: A. Edmondson
Edmondson, A. "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 44, no. 4 (December 1999): 350–383. (Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior, 2000 by the Academy of Management.)
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Florida. Mr. Dauten has been active with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (past board chair), School District #29 (past president), Ascension Church (past president), and the Metropolitan Planning Council (past board nember). He is... View Details