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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
decisions and ultimately impact observers' willingness to be influenced by them. Three studies suggest that observing others make more (versus less) thoughtful decisions generates more positive reactions when a choice is difficult but... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
strengthen alignment and accountability. Baker Library Reimagined The Baker Library team completed a strategic plan to guide key investments in collections, research, and emerging technology for the coming three years. Leveraging Baker's... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large number of analysts who kept... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the media if the board didn't intervene. While it was clear who we could turn to for legal advice, and we had our own business sense to apply to the strategic and tactical implications of the situation, we also had to address matters that... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
two-sided proprietary (closed) platforms connecting consumers and producers. Proprietary platforms create two-sided deadweight losses through monopoly pricing but at the same time, precisely because they set prices in order to maximize profits, they partially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
positive rioters who makes a difference in the world.” AUGUST 11 Executive Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003) spoke to the HBS alumni podcast Skydeck about how business can advance racial equity. Lewin is a coauthor of the Business for Racial Equity... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
States has often turned to cutting-edge technology solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. “Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs are skilled in industrial management and strongly... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one mountain peak to another through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the effects of View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has had a View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Law Review 126, no. 4 (forthcoming).18-23: (February 2013) Abstract Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, can make an important, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
tradeoffs that people make between having more time or having more money, and the extent to which people focus on each resource can have a significant impact on happiness. Considering subjective well-being (or “happiness”) as a combination of high View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
disciplining role of banks and bank debt in the market for corporate control, focusing on takeovers between 1992 and 2005. We find that relationship bank lending intensity and bank client network (the number of firms that the bank deals within the same industry) have a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political reform (photo by Stephen Voss) In 2017 Ballou-Aares cofounded the Leadership Now Project and left her position as a partner at Dalberg... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
resources are limited, and there are more than enough attractive ways to use them - whether for tactical investment in product quality or strategic investments in new market development." A Global Issue Fri nevertheless believes that if... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their computers to... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
the mobile platform for the bank's various businesses without creating confusion or increasing complexity for the consumers. Recognizing the potential impact mobile technology could have on the entire banking industry, they also had to decide on how to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino