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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
learning, support and opportunities through interactive group programming. Inspiring Capital The Return with Purpose Fellowship is a year-long experiential learning program with exposure to Inspiring Capital's broader social impact... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
would like more information. These interactive sessions allow for feedback that would not be available with one-way communication tools. After-action review Take the time to review how your organization responded to the current situation... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
specialized arena of MICS, but can be applied, they write, to technologies of a much broader scope, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in manufacturing, or interactive software tools that continue to revolutionize the way... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
organizations. The authors saw an increase in turnover within communities, meaning silos were less stable after employees began working more regularly from home. “The observed changes suggest that serendipitous, in-person interactions... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
past. Measure success in narrow terms A successful customer interaction on Target.com was narrowly defined: Only when a customer searched for a product, received recommendations, and actually purchased the product would the company bother... View Details
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online
course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem and determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new... View Details
- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
they don't have much choice but to cozy near the competition, especially when they need to plug into unique knowledge that exists in certain areas. Biotech companies, for instance, often operate close to top-notch universities to interact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2011 to 2018. His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior,... View Details
- March 2020
- Article
Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction
By: Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel and Laura Huang
Drawing on construal level theory, which suggests that experiencing a communicative audience as proximal rather than distal leads speakers to frame messages more concretely, we examine gender difference in linguistic abstraction. In a meta-analysis of prior studies... View Details
Joshi, Priyanka D., Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel, and Laura Huang. "Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 3 (March 2020): 417–435.
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Algorithms Need Managers, Too
By: Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan
Algorithms are powerful predictive tools, but they can run amok when not applied properly. Consider what often happens with social media sites. Today many use algorithms to decide which ads and links to show users. But when these algorithms focus too narrowly on... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Predictive Analytics; Management; Big Data; Analytics and Data Science
Luca, Michael, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Algorithms Need Managers, Too." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2016): 96–101.
- 13 Dec 2012
- HBS Seminar
Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School
- 01 Dec 2023
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A More Accommodating Approach
experience with 96 participants on a wall of video screens interacting with a faculty member in the Live Online Classroom studio. Because of its success, this virtual learning mode has replaced one of the on-campus modules, which shortens... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
who might have unique contributions to make at specific points. Transcript Getting to Class Early Tom DeLong Many professors find that getting to class early helps them feel more prepared to interact with their students. Transcript Do... View Details
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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details
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Design Driven Innovation
By: Roberto Verganti
Firms, managers and scholars have often balanced between two approaches to innovation: user centered (where incremental innovation is pulled by the market) and technology push (where innovation comes from breakthrough development in technologies). However there is a... View Details
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Financing New Business Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers
New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Supply- and Demand-Side Effects in Performance Appraisals: The Role of Gender and Race
By: Iris Bohnet, Oliver P. Hauser and Ariella Kristal
Performance reviews in firms are common but controversial. Managers’ subjective appraisals of their employees’ performance and employees’ self-evaluations might be affected by demographic characteristics, interact with each other as self-evaluations are typically... View Details
Bohnet, Iris, Oliver P. Hauser, and Ariella Kristal. "Supply- and Demand-Side Effects in Performance Appraisals: The Role of Gender and Race." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, No. RWP21-016, May 2021.
- July – August 2011
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Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units
By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker
Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry
Nembhard, I. M., and A. L. Tucker. "Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units." Organization Science 22, no. 4 (July–August 2011): 907–922.
- 21 Feb 2013
- HBS Seminar
Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts University
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Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details