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- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
things people had never seen." While on a purchasing jaunt in Africa, she discovered the Serengeti. "There were a million and a half wildebeest all traveling hundreds of miles to give birth in one place!" she recalls. Rapone soon began spending all of her vacations... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
approaching them with empathy. “I think it’s necessary for us as business leaders to not only practice talking about these issues . . . [but also] practice having conversations that aren’t easy,” observes Ratajczak. McCray adds, “That’s... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
Courtesy Josh Basseches Well over a year into the pandemic, many of us are craving opportunities for direct interaction in a lived, physical space. “So many of us have been engaging with colleagues, family, and friends through Zoom and other virtual exchanges since the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
$700 in six weeks guessing the weight of fairgoers large and small — earning 25â for each correct guess. Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, jokingly observes that he was destined for a career in money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without affecting the core... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of such historical accounts but observing that they can (1) bring to light complex realities and subtleties that parsimonious analytic models may neglect; (2) suggest overlooked, non-obvious aspects of the process that merit deeper, more... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
We've been encouraging readers to share feedback and observations about Working Knowledge articles by email, resulting in a slew of thoughtful responses. Here are a few comments from June, published with permission: Re: "Extroverts, Your... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11
alternative explanations for some important empirical observations in IB, such as bunching and second-mover advantage in market entries. 2006 Journal of Financial Economics How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
to the 2003 Alumni Healthcare Conference on November 7, outlined the characteristics of the baby market and the political, social, and regulatory roadblocks to businesses that wish to participate. "Morality surrounds this market to such an extent that some View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
It is fascinating to observe pundit after pundit come down strongly on the side of expensing stock options in the reported financial statements, as if that were the silver bullet for combating corporate malfeasance and resolving all our... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details
- 06 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers
opinions at an early age. I’ve experienced different environments myself, and those differences taught me to observe and empathize, rather than to accept whatever I have by default. I had never lived in the United States before, so that... View Details
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
economics.” Edwin Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1978, March 23, 1979 93 Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, Inc., observed in 1985 that Edwin Land "saw the intersection of art and science... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
demeanor might cause the casual observer to mistake the former Dean of Harvard Business School for a “regular guy,” rather than a legendary leader who has spent 60 years shaping HBS, Harvard, Boston, and society at large. McArthur arrived... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young