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  • 25 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

interviewed 10 senior investment bankers at the managing director or executive director level who each had several years of M&A experience. None of the bankers was aware of the academic literature on bid precision. The bankers were... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

By: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell
We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of queue management on patients' average wait time and length of stay (LOS). Using an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data from 2007 to 2010, we find that patients' average wait time and LOS are longer when... View Details
Keywords: Pooling; Queue Management; Strategic Servers; Social Loafing; Empirical Operations; Health Care; Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor V.G. Narayanan Financial Accounting Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Financial... View Details
  • Research Summary

Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry

Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.

Professor Higgins has written... View Details

  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Comprehensive look at what constitutes an effective case: developing an idea; considering the teaching aspect of the case; working with companies on field research, interviews, and follow-up; and elements of case writing. 1998 Writing Cases and Teaching Notes by E.... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Interview has been edited for clarity and length. You Might Also Like: 5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna, the book, which is available in India, includes interviews with dozens of business and social leaders culled around the topic of lasting leadership principles. The View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking at something that should really be evaluated on two separate scales. "Everybody has got a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

and in the industry about your reasons for leaving. You want to control the narrative around your departure and avoid any hint of acrimony. You will also need to agree on a date of departure. Keep in mind that you may be explaining your resignation at every job View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • Web

Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

impressive model for multilingual collections.” We encourage use of the CEM interviews to support a diverse array of research projects and questions. For academic works, we ask that you credit CEM using the citations provided on the cover... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Executive Education; Disruption; Management Skills
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  • 28 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS

fortunate to receive an offer of an interview during the winter break period and made use of the advice I’d learned in CPD-run behavioral interview seminars to prepare. A few days after the interview, I... View Details
  • Article

Health App Policy: International Comparison of Nine Countries' Approaches

By: Anna Essén, Ariel Dora Stern, Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Josip Car, Felix Greaves, Dragana Paparova, Steven Vandeput, Rik Wehrens and David W. Bates
An abundant and growing supply of digital health applications (apps) exists in the commercial tech-sector, which can be bewildering for clinicians, patients, and payers. A growing challenge for the health care system is therefore to facilitate the identification of... View Details
Keywords: Digital Health; Apps; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Policy; Global Range; Applications and Software
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  • November 2021
  • Case

Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking I: “Becoming a ‘Friend of the Situation’” (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Conflict and Resolution; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry
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  • November 2021
  • Article

Determining Variable Costs in the Acute Urolithiasis Cycle of Care Through Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Tyler R. McClintock, David F. Friedlander, Aiden Y. Feng, Mahek A. Shah, Daniel J. Pallin, Steven L. Chang, Angela M. Bader, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and George E. Haleblian
Objective. To characterize full cycle of care costs for managing an acute ureteral stone using time-driven activity-based costing.
Methods. We defined all phases of care for patients presenting with an acute ureteral stone and built an... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management
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Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

designed for newly appointed CEOs of public parent companies with annual revenues of $2 billion or more. Faculty & Participant Preparation The faculty interviews each participant before the Workshop to identify issues of particular... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

But he’s not talking about the typical ways companies gather input, such as through employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, or even one-on-one conversations between key managers and the CEO. These seldom move an organization... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

depend on the circumstances and, if so, how?” Drawing on 138 interviews with FBI officials and an analysis of 45 congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, the paper details the ways in which design change and identity change interacted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

form of the recruiting process at HBS; whether it is interviewing on campus or posting jobs on our website. EC: EC stands for “Elective Curriculum” and refers to the flexible second year at HBS. Second year students are also referred to... View Details