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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
threat lack credibility, but you also have no way of changing course if the situation becomes dire. 3. Visibly incur sunk costs Suppose you are negotiating with a consulting firm to renew its contract to... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
percent of arbitrators previously worked as advisers and they tended to favor brokers. The 8 percent of these arbitrators who were forced to pay clients restitution during their adviser careers were even more biased against consumers. Egan—along View Details
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
from the participant, looking at one picture that matched a picture from the participant's stack. The participants were told that the goal of the game was to determine which photo the partner was holding by asking as few yes/no questions... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
new employer-employee matched data, the authors find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level uncertainty is associated with a decline in total compensation,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
had handled the account to find out the concerns Impress had had before the conflict escalated. She arranged to offer Impress a few perks in a new contract as a show of good faith. She asked the president of another RLX client, who knew... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
according to Magnus Thor Torfason, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit. His article for Social Psychological & Personality Science, "Here's a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to Corruption," was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
managers make the right decisions to successfully build new-growth businesses. 1. Disruptive innovations spur growth. Companies have two basic options when they seek to build new-growth businesses. They can try to take an existing market from an entrenched competitor... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
receive invaluable feedback at each round of the Competition. $315,000 in cash plus in-kind prizes! Read More Rock Accelerator This innovative, immersive, and competitive yearlong program supports 20-25 Rock Summer Fellow teams with up to... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
an easier time abroad, they said. According to Hayes, the following principles of comportment are expected among businesspeople: Contracts should be fair to all parties. Partnership is preferred over hierarchical claims. Speculation is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
shifts.) In short, they found that an increase in rain correlated with a decrease in the time it took for workers to complete their tasks. Low visibility and extreme temperatures also matched periods of high... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-010 Describes the hardball tactics facing Peter Welz, who seeks to negotiate a make-or-break contract with a vastly larger potential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
definitely worth the time investment. My family came out to Boston the first week so I could spend a little time with them. I also went home to California for the brief break halfway through the program. Today's technology, like FaceTime,... View Details
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Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
more. See All Clubs . The Consulting for Impact Club (CFI) matches Harvard MBA candidates with global nonprofit and social impact focused organizations for engagements spanning the academic year. During this... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms with better CSR performance face significantly lower capital constraints. Moreover, we... View Details
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A Commitment to Sustainability | About
at Harvard and beyond. HBS promotes sustainability across our community with support from Operations, the Student Sustainability Associates program, the Business & Environment Initiative , the employee Green Team , and Executive Education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
other measures aimed at getting more federal funding for social service programs, and is under debate in Washington. The Act aims to promote and greatly increase the number of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). IDA accounts provide View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler