Observation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
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New Releases

technology is having on business practices. Drawing from papers presented at the 1995 HBS colloquium "Multimedia and the Boundaryless World," the 24 authors - many of whom are HBS faculty members - observe the effects new technologies are... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

friends, a couple. Their conversation is interspersed with videos of a Cineplanet theater in a Lima mall and interviews with Cineplanet employees. “It looks a lot like the way we brainstorm around the dinner table,” observes one student... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

weather, an observation about work (“We’ve got quite the agenda for this meeting!”), or even just the day of the week (“Happy Friday!”) After the meeting, follow up one-on-one with a question or to say “thank you.” "GRATITUDE AND PRAISE... View Details

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Cynthia Chen | MBA

enables enterprises to build LLM applications on their own data. Over the course of a summer, I shipped end-to-end APIs for data integration, drove efforts to improve observability in our backend processes, and led the creation of our API... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco

power and influence. "The issues discussed had wide relevance," observes program chair Willa E. Seldon (MBA '86). Adds Wilkinson, "The dialogue took advantage of shared experiences from the vantage points of early- through late-career... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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Lauryn Hale

to common goals Mentors at American Express and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an innovative nonprofit program that helps minorities explore opportunities for a business education, encouraged Lauryn to expand her leadership potential. "Once I visited HBS and... View Details

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Visit | MBA

Class Visit Program The excitement, energy, and unexpected insights generated by the case method make it a hallmark of the HBS distinctive learning environment. We invite you to experience our stimulating academic environment by observing... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Trust Me

cooperating successfully under a binding, strictly enforceable contract,” observed Malhotra. Whether negotiating a joint venture, a merger, or a prenuptial agreement, Malhotra believes that nonbinding (or less binding) contracts may be... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

and two laboratory experiments in food service settings suggest that transparency that 1) allows customers to observe operational processes (process transparency) and 2) allows employees to observe customers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2019
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Case Study: Mind the Gap

engine that ensures an optimal fit down to the level of soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed that the 25,000 small IT... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer

C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

Education staff.EE: What led you to develop the "Women Leading Business" forum? Hart: I'd observed in the School's Executive Education programs—AMP, PMD, and OPM, for example—that the women attending them loved meeting each... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

"Luxury, Technology, Integration"

revolutionized by e-commerce. At HBS we learned how disruptors change an industry through the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) course, and I have certainly observed many of the elements of a disruptor at YNAP. Both... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Contacts & Resources | Information Technology

and documentation, check service status, or submit a help ticket. If you have questions about Records Management. Visit the Records Management Services page on the Baker Library website for assistance with managing your records and appropriately View Details

14 Jan 2021
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Better Than Cash

groups attract the necessary financial investments. “There is no blueprint, as every member is at a different place,” observes Goodwin-Groen. “Our role is to help create opportunities for investment in this sector.” One of the biggest... View Details

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has traditionally been difficult. Manifestations of homophily, the notion that individuals tend to interact with others who resemble them, have been observed in many small... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

widespread distress: Corporate credit quality and growth, says Harvard Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the highest fraction of the non-performing loans coming from... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai

mother of two children, Kidwai, a devotee of Western and Indian classical music, enjoys returning to the Himalayas for trekking and to observe wildlife. India and China seem similar — slumbering giants waking to a global, market economy.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

[PDF]. "There are many detailed case studies of conflict, and many broad-brush, cross-country studies. Within-country studies, such as we conducted on Nepal, fill in the gap between the two different approaches. Our econometric analysis tells us whether what you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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