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What are the best finance interview prep resources?
Including asset management, VCPE, investment banking, asset management,and investment management? Research task: Good for finding: Suggested resources: Interview skills/prep Advice and techniques for quantitative interviews Wall... View Details
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the... Sandra J. Sucher MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice Sandra Sucher, professor of management View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
interview than the interviewee." According to Wally Bock, "When I conducted research I found that the more effective supervisors spent the bulk of their performance evaluation meeting time talking about the future." Forced... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2021
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Can We Train for Trust?
practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader earns trust is similar to how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the client, concluding that the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808025 PublicationsRelated Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico Authors:Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber Publication:Journal of Economic History 67, no. 3 (September 2007): 551-581 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
financial incentives causes people to work harder," he says. "But my research suggests that in deciding how hard we work and how well we think we're performing, social comparisons matter just as much." The $30,000 Gold Star The power of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
In 2009, technology researchers at Forrester published a report entitled We Are All Media Companies Now, that looked at how publishing firms were dealing with the shift from a distribution paradigm to one based on consumption. By 2014,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
paper: http://www.whatworksforamerica.org/ideas/inflection-point-new-vision-new-strategy-new-organization/ Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices Authors:Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
if they did not obtain the second reward. We discuss implications for research on motivation and incentives. Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy Authors:A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin, Jan W. Rivkin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
trying to discern who influences the target player and to whom that player defers. For example, when we were advising a client who was eager to sell his company, we counseled him against his instincts to quickly open serious negotiations with a potential acquirer's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
life insurance practices led to an investigation in New York State that threatened to curtail growth in the industry. Charles Evans Hughes guided the four-month-long Armstrong Investigation, which made startling revelations and offered a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
grit—complete with a social conscience—form the basis of a new Harvard Business School case, "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Professor Nancy F. Koehn, a leading historian, coauthored the case with HBS View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
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Does Spirituality Drive Success?
said, "I'd rather use the word fulfillment. Success is a metric; you never have enough. But only you can define fulfillment. We as individuals are the only judges." HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash moderated the session.... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
period, they showed us how work was actually done in practice in dozens of plants. Kent and I went to Toyota plants and those of suppliers here in the U.S. and in Japan and directly watched literally hundreds of people in a wide variety... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences Lessons in Economics Shaping the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
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The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
leaders need a new game plan. We asked Harvard Business School professors to provide practical advice for managing large-scale, long-term remote work at a time when many employees are not only distracted by the commotion in their homes,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard... View Details