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16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

value system. Closely related to unconscious bias is affinity bias in which people tend to gravitate towards others who look, act, and think as they do. In recruiting specifically, unconscious bias and affinity bias often express themselves as a View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

Fitzpatrick likes people to stretch. “I prefer to focus on the accomplishments that seem harder than others. Was this just business as usual, or did the applicant really have to try hard?” Dig for evidence of the right mindset Because L2... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

on-campus session, student teams will be formed. We will do our best to allocate students to their preferred project partners. In the period from October to December, student teams will engage in conversations and early work with project... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Preferreds to Generate Long-Term Income by Simon Wadsworth (MBA ’73C) (Bookmasters) Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze (MBA ’98D) (Berrett-Koehler... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

employees may know best. "Those managers who believe they can restrain themselves from becoming captured by something that looks weird—when that attention won't be productive—would likely prefer to see everything and then make a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

partner at Mohr, Davidow Ventures, and chairman of the Chasm Group. Wi-Fi use is driven by laptop users, he said, a group that prefers to access the Internet while sitting rather than walking. "You'll relocate fifty yards to get... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance of an under-performing company than on grooming leadership within the company. A famous CEO was preferred over a low-profile CEO, as the former was seen as a boost to public and investor confidence—and share prices—fast. Q:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

strategy for supporting the war effort earned him the rank of Brigadier General. He was an outlier who believed deeply in innovation, disciplined analysis and future focus. He refused to use HBS’s vaunted case method, preferring to... View Details

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

sustainable choices? What are the challenges that you've faced? What has been surprising? That's a very common tension and I prefer not to think about this as an ‘either-or’ type of decision but rather as two ends of a spectrum, both of... View Details

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

unconscious bias is affinity bias in which people tend to gravitate towards others who look, act, and think as they do. In recruiting specifically, unconscious bias and affinity bias often express themselves as a preference for one... View Details

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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

Professor Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Business in Global Society Research Three workstreams Enterprises What are the advantages and limitations of different ways of structuring the ownership of business enterprises? Under what conditions are some... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

probably needed a multifunctional organization, preferably a large one, for which you had bottom-line responsibility —somewhat unwieldy accouterments to pack with you into your sixties and seventies. Kim Clark, by contrast, speaks of the... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

best adapt to differences in the basic institutions of capitalism and consumer preferences across countries as well as within them. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707521 Hallstead... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

functioning in that way. From an economic perspective, that deceit is preferable to the realities of tariffs. In recent tweets on auto companies, he’s already changed his language to a “border tax,” from tariffs. I think the risks of such... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot? In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

reputation concerns, but only if advertisers ultimately figure out when they're getting a bad deal. Legal, administrative, and logistical factors make it difficult to sue even the worst offenders. And sometimes an advertiser's own staff members View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

torch relay. Lenovo's sponsorship will doubtless reinforce its brand preference rankings in China. However, around the world, Lenovo hardly wishes to be known as the Chinese PC company that consumers find convenient to boycott. Here are... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

environmental sustainability, agriculture, health and education sector. It prefers to make equity investments for-profit companies operating in the affordable education services across the world with a focus on Africa, Asia and Latin... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

databases: ABI/Inform, OneSource, and CareerSearch. This active committee will also survey graduates to understand how they currently use the Alumni Web site. The goal is to design a personal preference software agent that would allow... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D investments. Firms can conduct costly market research before setting R&D... View Details