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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

trustee of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and serves on boards of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and the University of... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

of a hypothetical $1,000 to introduce the idea that context, history, and values shape perceptions and expectations. These phenomena can propel behaviors that can lead to circumstances improving or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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David Velasquez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I want to be better prepared to lead and improve the delivery of health care in our country. Patients cannot wait for our systems to be more accessible,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Future Vision

out of poverty, providing products and services that have improved people’s standards of living, and creating fulfilling jobs and careers. But the challenges facing the world... View Details
Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity

Diversity and Organizational Performance Lex Schroeder Author tag Board Diversity The Board Diversity Network, a program of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative, shares the latest research, insights, and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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What Black Executives Really Want

imposter syndrome—feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. These individuals feel chronic self-doubt and a sense of inadequacy that overrode any feelings... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

(forthcoming) Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

little to contribute to processes of creation and innovation. While asking "What isn't management's role in innovation?," Michelle Malay Carter states the case this way: "Nearly all current View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Improving Job Design Featured Exercises Analyze a job using the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) Recommend a set of job design improvements 5-6 hrs Module 3 Energizing... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

harassment or racial discrimination—in which coworkers' morale or performance suffers even when they are not the direct targets of abuse. He coined a term for the phenomenon, "ambient cultural disharmony,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Improvement in Global Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

performance indicators that shifts strategic decision making to customer-facing edges of the organization. Others advocate less sweeping but still significant changes: Housing the budgeting and strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
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Events - Business History

"Determinants of African Business Performance in Colonial and Post-Colonial West Africa" 12 pm to 1:30 pm Apr 18 18 Apr 2025 Virtual Seminar Julia Yongue (Josei University), "Siam Then, Thailand Now:... View Details
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
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Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

of firm-level expected holding period returns using two firm fundamentals-book-to-market ratio and ROE-and study the cross-sectional properties of the model-implied expected returns. We find that 1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

training, independent living skills, and communication skills, to improve services to communities. Peacock told them that Guide Dogs was willing to take on the mobility piece since that was its area of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

change,” he says. “Firms typically don’t want to do that because once you change it, it’s very difficult to change it back. Also, experimenting with a select group of employees is deemed as unfair.” Past View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding