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  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business travel in a world... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

are social creatures, after all—we need connection to survive. But with global cultures in flux and the post-pandemic digital age, shadow epidemics of anxiety and loneliness are on the rise. Plus, the old rules of “decorum” don’t View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • December 1997 (Revised August 1998)
  • Case

Shanghai Real Estate (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
An independent consultant from the United States must decide what to do when faced with his client's apparent violation of an agreement with a third party. The consultant is American, the client is a Chinese real estate developer, and the third party is a French... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Contracts; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Law; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Corporate Accountability; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; China; United States; France
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  • Blog

Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

right board seat for you—and navigating the selection and onboarding process. Step 1: Refine Your Targets You don't just want to join a board—you want to be an outstanding board member. Make sure to find a company where you can really add value. Start View Details
  • Web

Contact Us - Research Computing Services

| Bloomberg Center B95B +1.617.496.6252 Email: pdibello@hbs.edu The Research Inbox (research@hbs.edu) is the most prevalent method of contacting RCS and is recommended as it facilitates matching the request to the person on the team best... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

enterprise which, in turn, could start to reach out towards other nationalities. During these years also Unilever's strategic thinking became more focused, with an emphasis on reconfiguring the geographical basis of its business. This was... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • Web

Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services Research Computing Services 9ms Research Computing Services (RCS) is a centralized service dedicated to assisting with faculty research projects, providing research software to the HBS community, developing and... View Details
  • 28 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

creating." Requests made from profiles with African American-sounding names were about 16 percent less likely to be accepted. According to the study, discrimination was pervasive across price points and in a variety of neighborhoods,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

themselves and their investors. There's another surprise in the research: short-termism might not be as widespread as we think, and a substantial number of corporations are rising to the challenge. "One important takeaway is that firms View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

earlier research with Iris Bohnet and Alexandra van Geen found that people are less sexist when assessing multiple people.) Even changing where on the page people sign contracts can encourage honesty. When... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

cautionary tale of what can happen when companies go too far. Acer entered early into the contract manufacturing of personal computers, operating in low-wage Taiwan, and made good money with that arbitrage... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • Research Summary

Research Summaries

Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7 weeks 6-8 hours per week 7 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a... View Details
  • Article

Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances

By: Josh Lerner and Dan Elfenbein
We explore the relationship between exclusivity and state-contingent control rights using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. We find that stronger exclusivity arrangements are associated with more frequent usage of contingent control rights. For... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Governance Controls; Internet and the Web; Ownership
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  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

treat serious medical conditions,” says Ariel D. Stern, the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Stern cowrote the December 2022 working paper with Amitabh Chandra, the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
  • 08 May 2019
  • Blog Post

In the Business of Flexibility

working protocol to minimize the impact of commuting on the environment and matches candidates with the appropriate mission-driven organizations. “The caliber of talent is crucial, but mission alignment is... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts Authors:Marco Piovesan, Antonio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

market and accumulated expatriate savings overseas provided them with funds to expand on a greater scale, though it also created governance structures which were more dependent on contracts and relationships... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 18 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

and priorities--they're working 80-hour weeks! In his book, Kaplan discusses techniques for matching available hours with key priorities, so executives can learn to do much more effective work and better... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

little or nothing for principals, whose leadership of schools could be unleashed to make giant strides in excellence. She called her idea Principals Connect. She would match principals who were seeking help finding resources or solving... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne