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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
sustainability and identify organization design and leadership characteristics of differentiating and integrating that can more effectively support seemingly contradictory strategies. The Euro as a Reserve Currency for Global Investors... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
opportunity for success; and (4) perhaps most damning, the original evidence that the courts relied upon to conclude that Section 203 gave bidders a meaningful opportunity for success was seriously flawed-so flawed, in fact, that even this original evidence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Air pollution not only corrupts people’s physical health, but can also contaminate their morality. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53173 August 2017 Journal of Management Education Teaching Versus Living: Managerial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of U.S. government bond returns. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/MBS_Paper_20140104.pdf Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”
state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the world of entrepreneurship.” Gaining an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
to reach a nurse who has paged him. Then, apologizing for his fatigue after thirty sleepless hours, he settles into a chair in a quiet corner to reflect for a few moments on his decision to enter medical school at the age of 45 after a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
model was needed that we could adapt continuously so the School would always be on the bleeding edge.” The Institute is not the first to recognize the dramatic impact of digitalization, data science, and design on the world, Lakhani says. What makes Harvard’s approach... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about SVMP
business challenges and defend tough decisions from the case with the help of my classmates.” - Amir What did SVMP teach you about HBS and an MBA degree? “SVMP taught me that HBS is a place that cultivates leaders who are already doing... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
teammates monthly on a single item measuring creative contributions to the project. The convergent validity of the ratings was supported because there was consistency among other ratings of the same targets and among different types of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The benefits of talking it out Zlatev and colleagues conducted six studies involving a total of about 2,500 participants between 2018 and 2020. The results indicated that: Workers trust colleagues... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Harvard University and other institutions found that 43 percent of small businesses had temporarily closed. Immediate action was needed to support the sector. Mills, author of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, was active in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
redefine their roles as facilitators and supporters rather than drivers and decision makers. Thinking about regional economic strategy needs to evolve from expensive and politically complicated... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
increase in the flow of FDI. In support of our theory, private savings increased very rapidly beginning around 1960. This seems a good example of the dynamics emphasized by the model where private savings is helpful in attracting FDI,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
the Internet. If you need a vet, you aren't going to do that over the Internet. Q: The second strategy is Shrink and Transform the Format. Alvarez: The other two strategies we describe—Shrink and Transform the Format and Wind Down—are really about a View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inappropriate centralized and bureaucratic organizational design on the target firm. Management was unable to make critical decisions without multiple approvals. "As a result, the organization lost its vitality, performance began to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
package of benefits that included sick days and vacation time, retirement benefits, and educational assistance for courses within and outside of the company. Land's support of education centered on his belief that "the world is a scene... View Details