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- 11 Mar 2014
- News
Your Startup Is More Likely To Get Funding If You're A Man
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
brand-new doctors through life-or-death situations. "There's a huge learning curve in medicine, and teaching is highly variable in terms of training," Zhang says. "Some attending physicians really prioritize mentoring, while others View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
steadily look to the US for some sort of leadership” (Phillippe Gouamba). Actions by the Federal Reserve appeared to weigh-in more heavily than other factors in the thinking of several respondents....
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- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
to improve their financial situation by rushing new ventures to market. In doing so, they sacrifice quality standards and ultimately underperform their peers. This is particularly problematic in high tech, where entrants need strong...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
indexes by 30 percent. The market swings likely prompted many brokerage customer to scrutinize their advisers’ investments, and some might not have liked what they saw. “There's a Warren Buffett quote: ‘Only when the tide goes out do you...
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- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
habit-forming behavior, whether people recognized it as such, whether it was possible to induce the habit with experimental interventions, and whether the habit would continue after the interventions ceased. The field experiment was based on the theory of “rational...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
It’s no secret that fierce competition from Amazon puts downward pressure on prices charged by Walmart and other big multichannel retailers for the same items. However, the bigger “Amazon effect” relates not to the prices themselves but...
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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS
community at HBS?” – a valid question that I also once asked when trying to find my own path to an MBA. But I’m here to tell you that I was able to do it and you can too! When I think of community and belonging, I View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
that a business leader would come in and say, 'I know how to run my business so I know how to run your school.'" The attitude that superintendents desired of business leaders was quite different: "I'm going to learn first,...
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- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
might apply to earning a degree or learning a new skill, some entrepreneurs value persistence to an excess, Eisenmann says. “Founders hear about other entrepreneurs who pulled a rabbit out of a hat in the 11th hour,” says Eisenmann, who...
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by Danielle Kost
- 23 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
context. Q2: In brief, what did you learn? How much of diversity and performance is consistent across study areas, and how much is driven by context? Zhang: We learned that the social context matters, a lot!...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
the paper says. With some evidence that “a few are behaving badly,” Froot says the findings might prompt the US Securities and Exchange Commission to scrutinize weaknesses in the announcement process. “We definitely think this merits...
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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
them—and all soon-to-be managers—make the shift. These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, these four corporate leaders stepped forward—and changed how we think of leadership forever....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
when a firm does share this information, consumers consider it a form of "intimate disclosure"--and people are often more attracted to brands that disclose intimate information. Shoppers have greater affinity for brands that advertise how muchit costs to make a...
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- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
by society, rather than by the parents themselves. A third framework would relate to equity. As a society, we need to think about what fairness means in this realm. Is the...
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- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
its proprietary MS Office software available on Apple's iPad—after all, the software was one of the major selling points of Microsoft's competing tablet Surface. "That was one of the reasons people bought Surface to begin with," says Zhu. "By making Office available on...
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