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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tremors in his bow whenever he practiced, he immediately knew that something in his body was out of sync. He was diagnosed with essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary and rhythmic shaking of the arms or hands. For someone whose livelihood... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
that continued dependence on foreign oil would eventually cause economic and geopolitical crises, unless certain preemptive steps were taken. They weren’t, and today, amid crises, America confronts the same stark choices it did back then,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
negative advertising, the longer it lingers. Brands depend on the health of the whole system through which value is created and sustained. If you compare your brand to "Crooked Hillary," "Lyin’ Ted," "Low Energy... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
Negotiation, describes how you can shape important deals through tactics, deal design, and set-up, and why three dimensions are more powerful than one. Key concepts include: Three-D negotiation comprises tactics, deal design, and set-up. Their use View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
with an audience of some 350 people. Biondi said that future success in the entertainment industry will depend on senior executives' ability to predict trends from new technology. He reminded participants that TV executives, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
to be excessively positive or excessively negative, depending on the company’s current fortunes. “For the last two years there’s been enormous enthusiasm in the classroom,” he observes. “There’s still some skepticism around the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
(18th PMD), noting that "the club depends on a solid core team of people." As part of the club's ongoing effort to expand its social enterprise agenda, Melissa T. Williams (MBA '95) and Ernest A. Blackwelder (MBA '88) spearhead the... View Details
- Web
5.1 Community Standards/Disciplinary Process | MBA
of Possible Violation As a first step, the student against whom claims have been brought ordinarily will meet with the Administrator to discuss the allegations, learn about the disciplinary process, and answer any additional questions. View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents or 25 cents per... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
who could afford diesel-powered generators. Conditioned to expect inconsistent electricity supply, my life was impacted in many ways. At home, I could not study at night until my father returned to turn on the generator. At boarding school, computer learning was View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
prosperity depends on innovation." On Competition, a collection of Porter's seminal Harvard Business Review articles about competitive advantage -- which also includes two new articles on clusters and competition and global competitive... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tedde Tsang
to make the buses run faster. Trundling up, down, and around the city's iconic hills from downtown to hipster mecca to beachfront village, I saw that the freedom of movement enjoyed by San Franciscans, no matter their age, race, income, or neighborhood, View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
Lye found that coach-team matches do indeed affect team performance. In other words, a winning record was dependent on the degree of match between coach and team. The research provided two important takeaways, which we can see reflected... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
network will have to spend time familiarizing viewers with its geography and culture. Early impressions, meanwhile, have been overshadowed by fears of terrorism and the anti-gay backlash. If NBC is going to be successful, it may depend on... View Details
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
out of the rut." 45 While ARD started out with an uneven performance, suffering some initial losses, it showed consistent gains by 1955. "We cannot depend safely for an indefinite time on the expansion of our old big industries alone,"... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cordelia Shackleton
depended financially on me. I had my health, education, and a family who could support me. I was invincible. But I wasn’t. “Have you lost your job?” said my mother, suspicious of my ambiguity and mid-morning call. I couldn’t bring myself... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot-Mom
"I was raised to avoid the dependency thing at all costs," she acknowledged. "And what I learned was that the only thing worse is independence." Whether opting for domesticity or anything else in life, what's important, she noted, is to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
terms of costs and quality, and companies are heterogeneous. These users do not all attach the same weights to the different dimensions of cost and quality. Moreover the trade-offs regarding the various dimensions of cost and quality, and the weights that users attach... View Details
- Fast Answer
HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Company News & Industry Research
reports by industry/subject and/or geography, depending on publisher. Value Line provides information and advice on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, and convertibles. Enter a company name or ticker to access a company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
scenario carries a caveat, though, according to research by HBS assistant professor Susan Kulp. Her work suggests that the profit gains of VMI depend on both the retailer's willingness to provide detailed demand information and the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)