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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Translation? EQ—the hardest leadership skill to build. Many people reading this will be managers of teams or groups. How can they best support these ideas? We did a study when I was at Walmart comparing stores with identical sales, square footage, and labor expenses... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
contributions to the literature that span institutional theory and strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1836472 Henry A. Kissinger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
World Series just completed with a Boston Red Sox sweep of the Colorado Rockies, we asked Elberse to discuss the business of sports marketing and the unique case of Maria Sharapova. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What is the growth rate of the... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define the new normal. View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
does reveal is that their analysis pointed to “a complete lack of understanding” of the actual physics involved with football by those who make their living off the game. The lessons to be learned from that stretch beyond Deflategate. “I... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
concept of "unraveling"? A: Unraveling is the process by which some markets start to clear earlier and earlier, before important information becomes available. In the case of football bowls, the NCAA used to try to prevent bowls from... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
“That is really the crux of why I went to HBS, and why I chose to get an MBA. I knew that I wanted to build something that would make an impact on people’s lives. “ Rachel spent her two years at HBS immersed in learning and soaking up as much View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
teaming: gathering experts in temporary groups to solve problems they may be encountering for the first and only time. This flexible approach was essential to the completion of the Water Cube, the building that hosted swimming and diving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
getting done or sharing information related to work, one model has been to codify everything. I’ll give you the example of GitLab. They have something called the “one handbook" policy. What that means is that they write down everything so... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
learning in the context of outsourced radiological services, where individual doctors at an outsourcing firm complete radiological reads for hospital customers. We examine more than 2.7 million cases for 1,431 customers read by 97... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
they feel completely engaged. And when they do, what I've found is they feel invested, also, in the moment. And so it's not just a topic that is aloof and afar from them, but it's something that they can now identify with because they've... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
Wheeler has incorporated concepts and techniques from other arenas where circumstances are in flux and information is imperfect—from military combat and medical diagnosis to improvisational theater and jazz. Hitting The Right Notes "There... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed his training as a cardiologist,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
a very simple set of decisions that you made and changed them. One of the things we have to do with climate is take all this infrastructure that we already have and begin to think about where are the tweaks where you can take solutions and piece them together and end... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
experience undoubtedly include late nights as you prepared cases, polished presentations, wrote papers, or completed team projects. Although some people may be born with a solid work ethic, most of us learn it, and we do so by striving to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
futuristic cities is New Songdo City in South Korea, which some say will be the cleanest and greenest city in the world, set for completion in 2015. With first-class schools, hospitals, and other amenities, the South Korean government has... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne