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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

may also try to overcorrect in areas where they failed the first time, such as overanalyzing or delaying decisions, being too conservative on cash flow, or focusing too much on scalability too early in the product-development process. If you’re View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

in NBA history when he played for the Boston Celtics, and his coach was the legendary Red Auerbach. In an interview with Russell, he talked about his coach and how he never really “played” for Red, since they “worked together” as a team.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Mid-US - Global

interview focuses on Weaver's entrepreneurial journey, leadership style, and the challenges she faced breaking into the highly regulated and competitive spirits industry. Gibson reflects on the leadership principles that could contribute... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely. To better understand how climate issues are being handled in the boardroom and to determine what good climate governance looks like in practice, the authors View Details
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Research

Professor Cuddy studies the origins and outcomes of how we perceive and are influenced by other people, investigating the roles of variables such as culture, emotions, nonverbal behaviors, and hormone levels. Much of her work focuses on social categories (e.g.,... View Details

  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj
This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History
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  • September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details
Keywords: BrainTech; Psychology; Hiring; Games; Entrepreneur; Start-up; Start-up Growth; Strategic Change; Strategy Formulation; Recruiting; Corporate Culture; Hiring Of Employees; Start-ups; Startup; Startups; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Business Startups; Strategy; Competition; Organizational Culture
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  • 07 Oct 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Tristan Botelho, Yale University

  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Making Space for Emotions: Empathy, Contagion, and Legitimacy’s Double-Edged Sword

By: Andreea Gorbatai, Cyrus Dioun and Kisha Lashley
Legitimacy is critical to the formation and expansion of nascent fields because it lends credibility and recognizability to once overlooked actors and practices. At the same time, legitimacy can be a double-edged sword precisely because it facilitates field growth,... View Details
Keywords: Legitimacy; Collective Identity; Emotional Contagion; Field-congifiguring Events; Empathy; Natural Language Processing; Mixed Methods; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Groups and Teams
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  • September 2021
  • Article

Joint Problem-solving Orientation in Fluid Cross-boundary Teams

By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Anna T. Mayo and Amy C. Edmondson
Using interviews, a national field survey, and an online laboratory study, we have examined teamwork in fluid cross-boundary teams. Across three studies, we qualitatively discovered and quantitatively explored "joint problem-solving orientation" as a new team factor.... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; Cross-boundary Teams; Groups and Teams; Problems and Challenges; Performance
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  • July 2020
  • Case

PeopleAnswers (A): People Analytics

By: Daniel P. Gross and Christian Godwin
In the fall of 2009, founder and CEO Gab Goncalves has turned PeopleAnswers, Inc. from a fledgling startup to a steadily growing company of nearly 50 employees and $10 million recurring revenue. PeopleAnswers provides people analytics software which its clients use to... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Growth and Development; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing
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  • June 2011
  • Article

Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work

By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
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    SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good

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      The New Market Conundrum

      Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it's unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details

        Unleashed

        When leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to fix themselves. Should they?

        When leaders want to improve, they will find no shortage of ideas to help them. They’re told to identify and develop their natural-born strengths, mine failures... View Details

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        Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni

        required) Learn how to optimize your LinkedIn profile with the knowledge of how recruiters actually utilize the platform. LinkedIn for Job Searching (login required) Leverage LinkedIn for both job hunting and increasing the rate of return on the roles you apply for.... View Details
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        FAQ - MBA

        the HLS on-campus interviewing process (OCI), OPIA job search resources, or HBS resources. What types of careers have Harvard JD/MBAs pursued after graduation? Harvard JD/MBA alumni have chosen careers in politics, academia, international... View Details
        • 26 Aug 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

        that has lost its traction, especially among younger consumers,” says Vettese, who surveyed consumers and interviewed Hughes for the research project. “Now, people want to go online and get an at-your-fingertips experience. They want to... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics
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        FAQ - MBA

        earn two degrees in two years as a cohort. To graduate, a student is expected to meet requirements at both schools. If invited to interview with HBS, I’ll need to submit one additional letter of recommendation for the Master of Science... View Details