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- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
C-suite sea change: an overall increase in IT investments and an overall decrease in firm diversification. The It Investment Factor Looking at growth patterns over the 13-year period, the researchers found a direct correlation between an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
UC-Berkeley, respectively, whose own research has found that “individuals are often more persuaded by narratives than by statistical evidence.” Kalla and Brookman wrote of their findings last year in American Political Science Review: “It... View Details
Dawn Dobras
has been founding team on a consumer tech start-up that was exited and active angel investor. Currently, she is founder/ GP of Capital F, an early stage venture fund focused on technology that shapes women's... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products and Services (B2C)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Number of Countries Visited: 55 Best Job: assisting refugees in Côte d'Ivoire Founding Member: University of South Carolina's women's soccer team Speaks: French, Spanish, Vietnamese Award Winning: salsa... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
women—whose careers could provide some insight into these questions. “I wanted to understand what it is that they did to crack the code,” Kraus says of her research. Through interviews, Kraus and her research team View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
leadership training with G.E. — a high-level program that took her to Istanbul, London, and Paris — Tuce experienced a significant shift in scale when her FIELD 2 assignment took her team to Chennai, India, where they advised a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events Around the World 1 Daniel Peng, Wendy Lim, and Jackie Valentine (all MBA 2017) with Derrick Hsu and Anish Nahar (MBA 2017) at the Young Alumni Networking Reception held in March at the Barbarossa Lounge in San Francisco. 2 Ben Dupont (PLDA 20,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
Founded in Sweden in 1943, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer, outfitting dorm rooms and designer homes around the globe. A company that engages nearly a billion customers every year and employs over 194,000 workers in 49... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
support promising new ventures founded by HBS graduates. Ninety-one teams from HBS clubs around the world submitted plans to regional judges in March. On April 25, U.S. and international finalists from... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
researchers were able to find similar private firms for a good number of public firms. The team then studied the investment patterns of public and private companies within the match sample. "In particular, we looked at the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
and so would the independent film viewer. If we tried to put a bag of Terra Chips in every actor’s hands, it would have been disingenuous.” Instead, Simon says that he and his team hoped that featuring the real farm that provides potatoes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
study that estimates a total economic value for the parks, including the annual amount a participant was willing to pay to prevent the loss of 20 percent of US National Parks and programs. (A series of focus groups determined that most participants View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Casey Gerald
book of second-year EC colleagues. When he wanted to know more about consumer goods in Asia, he found an expert on retailing in Japan through the Retail & Luxury Goods Club. “Second,” says Casey, “HBS is uniquely suited to prepare me... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
passion for leadership and building small teams and building an organization. At the time, I didn't have the confidence myself that I could go out and just create a business from scratch. But what I felt I could do, because I had that... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the outcomes. Teradyne found that by using generic components offered with Windows NT software, it could slash the cost of delivering the product to integrated circuit manufacturers. Despite the significant cost advantages offered by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
learn about marketing from a business owner who says he doesn’t care whether or not customers like his product? HBS assistant professor Michael Norton’s interest in what motivates seemingly irrational consumer behavior has found a perfect... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A research View Details
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 16 Jun 2023 Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them Becca Carnahan & Christopher Moore Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard Business School Associate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
course, it is possible to apply subjects like strategy or marketing to any company that you work for, especially if you are working in the strategy department. However, here are three other examples of what I found very interesting and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail