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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Details Concepts Idea Selection and Evaluation Defining and Refining Your Prototype Plan Prototyping: From Exploration to Validation Leading Concept Development Featured Exercises Concept Poster: Organize all information about an... View Details

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

looks like.” Certain triggers can make negotiators vulnerable to acting unethically, he adds: When high-stakes incentives like big dollar amounts are involved, negotiators are more likely to distort the information they provide. If... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

and potential solutions. Highlights Institutional Investors Signaling Tops Friendly Market Show Hide Details Concepts Capital Market Participants Capital Market Problems Solutions Implications for Your Company Featured Exercises Evaluate perspectives on View Details

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

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

spring meeting earlier this month. "This is a place where we work hard, we are focused, we are cutting edge, for the public good," said Weinzierl, who is also the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration. During the Alumni Board's two-day... View Details

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

Indian nonprofit devoted to supporting the millions of low-income women who toil in the country’s informal economy. Serving young people and working mothers, brother and sister each came to believe that intervening at the preschool and... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

Can you share a bit about your background and where you grew up? Zainab Raji I am one of four children born to my Nigerian parents. I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest commercial hub, and in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. I have fond... View Details

26 Jul 2022
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Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

There’s a saying in hospitality: The customer is always right. In fact, customers might be more influential than ever, according to a study of online restaurant reviews. Yelp, the website where consumers share their service experiences,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for the 2019 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award from INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) for “A Structural Analysis of Sharing Economy Leveraging Location and Image... View Details

21 Dec 2011
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The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

value chain. At the other extreme, a global industry is one where important activities in the value chain can be shared across all countries. Reflecting on my experience, however, I'd have to say that the worst mistake—and the most common... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

are turning to the banks, which are directing investors' money into places as speculative as dot-com and telecom stocks. But this time the destruction of investors' value isn't likely to take the form of a large run-up in share prices... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

competitive interaction research to consider potential drawbacks and emphasize how competitive exposure, enabled by powerful intermediaries, can inhibit innovation. We develop a conceptualization of information leakage that occurs when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2016
Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

reading the case and considering the questions that it poses. In the classroom, the discussion allows for each issue to be fully explored, and conversations frequently continue in an informal manner after class. Because I learned from... View Details

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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

application deadline, and the committee will assess a candidate's eligibility within that specific year-long period, based on the information provided within the application. Quick self-assessment tip: If you did not receive any HBS... View Details

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Teaching has been a lifelong passion of mine. As the third generation of academics in my family, I see good teaching as a means to give back and to encourage others to share my passion for discovery. I’ve been very lucky to have many teaching opportunities, both as an... View Details

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

which eventually homogenizes the information space and decreases actors' propensity to form bridging ties, creating a globally separated network; (2) self-containment of the small-world network, or increasing homogenization of the social... View Details

07 May 2020
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The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

mitigating the risk of contagion. Other examples of this in the past have been less extreme, but include, for example, medical device advancement developed in response to a rise in consumer awareness of radiation risk. We recently explored this example, which View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

2022
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Which Explanation Should I Choose? A Function Approximation Perspective to Characterizing Post hoc Explanations

By: Tessa Han, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju

A critical problem in the field of post hoc explainability is the lack of a common foundational goal among methods. For example, some methods are motivated by function approximation, some by game theoretic notions, and some by obtaining clean visualizations. This... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Choices and Conditions; Analytics and Data Science

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01 Apr 2013
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First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the new workplace. There's a lecture about the firm's history and another about standard operating procedures. There's a packet of information from human resources, emblazoned with the firm's logo, and maybe a coffee mug to match. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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