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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

focus on building relationships, managing, and selling. Software engineers can use services to autogenerate programming code for basic purposes, allowing them to write code more efficiently while spending more time on other activities, like system View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Esteves Hall | About

lighting to create a timeless design that will deepen the learning experience for thousands of participants annually from around the globe. About the Name André & Lilian Esteves Esteves Hall is named for... View Details

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

fact the product of a sharp intellect and dozens of lessons learned over the course of a long career. "He's a street-smart guy, and he has this observational power. He had in mind designing the perfect company, which included the... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns. First, men’s and women’s beliefs about both oneself... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Rio as an academic after earning a PhD at the University of Chicago. HBS is one of the schools that inspires Insper’s business school, for example, and it uses the case method to teach students in classrooms that were designed using HBS... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

concerns—who might be interested in collaborating to make change. Then together, explore how existing work practices may compromise both equity and effectiveness; design small, local experiments to change... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

28 Jul 2010
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Disagreement about the Team’s Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance

Keywords: by Heidi K. Gardner

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Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

advanced analytics that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI). “Chung has seen companies dramatically improve productivity after adopting advanced analytics to guide compensation.” In an ideal world, a company would use trial and error to set the best sales targets... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2006
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When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

position of the owner with the third party, but it also allows the initial offer to the tenant to be set high. To explore the question of who actually benefits from this particular right of first refusal, the researchers conducted an View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

Institute is a directory of various for-fee salary surveys available by region. PayScale.com Designed to help employees obtain accurate real-time information on job market compensation, the website allows individual employees to submit... View Details

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

pricing can be found in the article Deconstructing the Price Tag.) The Brain Shopping Experiment In a series of experiments, participants went shopping—while lying on their backs inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that program. Sean Silverthorne: We’re... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and... View Details

December 2021
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Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details

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