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  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally invested in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work

digital talent platforms to access highly skilled freelancers. Read Employer Survey In 2019, Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute View Details
  • 17 Jan 2019
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MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

course is designed to introduce HBS students to the complexities of Africa – economic, sociological, and historical – and the ways in which these Africa-specific trends impact... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor perfected a mass production system that converted the vast majority of jobs in the factory into routine tasks. It pioneered the moving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Vittorio Bassi, and Anant Nyshadham. Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm , Article, Journal of the European Economic Association, August 2024. With Achyuta Adhvaryu,... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

salespeople, and had subsequently found jobs that required, on average, 20 percent fewer hours. Once again, deeper probing and analysis yielded a truer understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

understand their [organization's] strategy. In short, there is often a chronic disconnect in organizations between strategy formulation and strategy execution. An office of strategy management, or OSM, is intended to close that gap. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

  PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2019
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Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

contributors, salespeople aim their attention at their customers and products, worried mostly about how to do their own job well. In becoming managers, they must pivot toward clarifying to their staff what... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels; for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to efficient View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

other research here , Adi’s other research here , and Jonathan’s other research here . More Info Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era By: Samuel G. Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein , Adi Sunderam & Eric Zwick OCT 2021 The authors develop... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Testing Interpreting A/B Tests Show Hide Details Concepts Designing and Performing Hypothesis Tests Improving the Customer Experience Featured Exercises Develop and test... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Kendall Square and, to his dismay, laying off hundreds of workers due to the post-war slump. "Everyone left at Polaroid knew that, at the present rate of decline, the business, the company, and their jobs... View Details