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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Human Behavior & Decision-Making Human Behavior & Decision-Making 2014 Book The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See By: Max Bazerman This book will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
come first. The authors have identified six common barriers to change: (1) unclear direction on strategy and values, which often leads to conflicting priorities; (2) senior executives who don't work as a team and haven't committed to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
of the process of reducing trade barriers and a limitation on it. The European Economic Community (later known as the EC, and, from 1993, the European Union) was formed in 1957, and initially consisted of six Western European countries. It developed View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
vacancies he had created needed to sign on to his philosophy: that shareholder value was the single objective to which a corporation should dedicate itself. To focus executives single-mindedly on shareholder interests, he used financial incentives, mainly View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
provides students with the means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
entire value chain, across almost every company and industry. And because it is an open platform with common standards, companies can often tap into its benefits with much less investment than was required to capitalize on past... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
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Business History - Faculty & Research
market economies such as the United States. This article finds instead that regional influences were more important, supporting sociological theories about the importance of visibility in corporate green strategies. It identifies major View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
all. “Admissions looks for a typical HBS profile” Chad: I think this is one of the ways that, as an applicant, you can get into this imposter syndrome mindset, and I'll give you an example. When I speak to people who are in consulting, a View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
Baker include the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room , which houses the School’s renowned historical collection of rare business books, the largest in the world, and documents dating from the 15th century. The new Frist Faculty Commons... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
Publication:Journal of Advertising Research (forthcoming) Abstract What is the payoff to enlisting celebrity endorsers? Although effects on stock returns are relatively well documented, little is known about any impact on sales—arguably a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
Search Firms the Right Way Networking is the most common path to a board seat, but search firms handle about 20-25% of board placements. Keep in mind that your current search firm contacts may work more with executive opportunities than... View Details
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About
companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
released On Competition, Porter collects his most influential articles from HBR, and adds new work on health care, philanthropy, social responsibility, and leadership. This excerpt, coauthored with Harvard Business School professors Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
They show that funding loans to these borrowers lead to better economic outcomes for the borrowers and higher returns for the fintech platform. See Marco’s other research here , Dimuthu’s other research here , and Don’s other research here . More Info View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
changing the tax laws to render tax-free those capital gains earned on stock held for ten years or more. Shann Turnbull suggested the need for education in “new organizational forms” such as “Network Governance” that are currently “mostly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
itself as an opportunity to rethink our journey and decide where we wanted to go. We had great support from the Dean and the Division of Research. Under these circumstances and with the above framing, people were excited to convene and take View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
rising stock markets. As a nation, then, we make a substantial investment in foundation philanthropy that goes well beyond the original gifts of private donors. We should therefore expect foundations to achieve a social impact... View Details