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  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that accrue from conversational interactivity include lower transaction... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

extra-industry professional networks will, through normative conformity, be more likely to adopt turnkey practices; second, that the normative pressure of professional networks will interact with the mimeticism of industry View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

pressures in that environment, can influence creativity by influencing people's passion for their work. Managers can influence the level of creativity in their organizations by establishing work environments that support passion for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

effects on productivity a priori, inhibiting effective capacity management in high load systems. We categorize load into in-process inventory (congestion) and incoming inventory, decomposing the latter into its levels of bottleneck (BN) View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

than country characteristics in explaining governance ratings variance. Our findings show that firms in emerging economies over recent years had more capability to rise above home-country peer firms in corporate governance ratings than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

improves the visibility of a paper on the SSRN network. We also find limited evidence of gaming due to demographic factors and career concerns, and strong evidence of gaming driven by social comparisons with various peer groups. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Down the Memory Chute

With WAC, the longest running of all the report-writing incarnations, the prototypical assignment featured formal and informal discussions of the case at hand, followed by each student’s own fevered analysis. Then came multiple handwritten drafts and hours of typing,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Web

Departments | Employment

center of the learning experience. What sets HBS Online apart? Our learning model is built around three key characteristics: active, case-based, and social. You complete coursework on your own time while meeting regular deadlines to ensure you’re progressing through... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

How We Make It Work

he worked part-time when his wife was finishing her residency. What’s been hard? Pride. I’m not always on the most high-profile projects or urgent requests. And as much as you try not to compare yourself with others (is that really even possible?), View Details
  • 21 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

Germany, I was accepted by my Caucasian friends, but was keenly aware I looked different. In China, I looked like my peers and spoke Mandarin fluently, but did not feel that I fit in culturally. In the US, I was identified as a... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

directly. Taxes are needed to fund public goods, but they sometimes distort the allocation of human and physical capital. And large government deficits put upward pressure on the cost of borrowing for companies. The authors propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

were out there.” As the day wears on, the pressure mounts to boil down everything they’ve seen and heard into a succinct, viable business opportunity. In the end, Camille and Vibha propose a lending vehicle to make loans available to the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

communication is essential, even if you don’t plan to be on the front lines or give frequent formal speeches. While this course focuses on public speaking, I designed it to also explore speaking beyond the formal podium: disagreeing with the boss, holding an employee... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details