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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
probability of a crash; (3) attributes of the price run-up, including volatility, turnover, issuance, and the price path of the run-up, can all help forecast an eventual crash and future returns; and (4) some of these characteristics can help investors earn superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Jada Haynes
make sure I was intentional with my decision. Instead of stressing over applications, GMAT studying, and business school prep, I spent my time career mapping and thinking about what goals I had for my MBA... View Details
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
of our stabilization policy? Time will tell. See Olivier’s other research here and Larry’s other research here . More Info Strengthening and Streamlining Bank Capital Regulation By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein &... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
landlines to cell phones, and foreign companies were entering the French market. “It went from being a monopoly with no competition to having intense cross-border competition at the same time the company was under profound... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
(superstar) The first four reflect how an executive deals with subordinates in the company; the final one is directed at people outside the firm. Directive leadership is well known in America, but is declining in frequency. It stresses... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
operations back from China. The authors examine the effects of these variables between 2017 and 2022, a tumultuous period that put stress on the global economic system. They crunch product-level trade statistics from United Nations... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
Burnout, retention, and renewed labor organization are critical challenges for leaders, especially amid COVID-19 and a looming recession. Leaders must ask themselves: What is it about my organization’s culture that is contributing to such a high level of mental View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
says. “That is enormously satisfying to them—and it motivates them to work even harder.” Also, research shows that employees who take time off are less stressed and more engaged, more creative, and more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
that I became a staunch, careful value investor. I’ve always had the tendency to go for the 60,000-foot view. If you do that, you realize that the great bubbles of history have been massive and obvious. But while their breaking is certain, the View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
thinking about problems and to do it at the right time or even ahead of time. He's a marvelous freak of nature." On quiet moral leadership: "Within everyday ordinary people, if you look closely, you can find some extraordinary things."... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 09 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back
nonprofit space, something completely different than what I was doing before. What is your favorite memory of your time at HBS?It was during my first semester. Due to COVID guidelines, we were very restricted in terms of section... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
to their sense of what is rational," he explains. "You can use pathos, appealing to their emotions, or you can make an argument based on their sense of values or ethos." Great leaders, he notes, "spend the bulk of their View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto View Details
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
be looked forward to? That we felt they were time well spent with our colleagues and added value to our roles in some meaningful way? There’s no reason you have to suffer or make your teams suffer through another tortuous hour or more. A... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
customer rather than assign resource costs first to activities and then to products or customers. For each group of resources, estimates of only two parameters are required: the cost per time unit of supplying resource capacity and the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
Ambitious New Year’s resolutions often end in disappointment. So instead of setting unrealistic goals in 2022, business leaders should consider making smaller, simpler changes—and they just might see better results, says Harvard Business School Professor Hirotaka... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions together is fundamental to a healthy cofounding relationship.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We've documented US participation in global value chains over four decades, with particular focus on the last five... View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
starters, Karen Caswelch suggested that we take steps to ensure that in our hiring, we consistently select people who share and value behaviors that produce trust as a shield against management turnover that leads to broken commitments. Mike Flanagan View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
days of time each week. They’ve stressed the importance of time spent together for creative collaboration as well as the need for team-building and the preservation of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett