Information Processing - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

team launch. Describes how to diagnose emergent team processes such as information exchange, collaboration, decision making, impression formation, and underlying identity dynamics. Includes steps managers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

The more people who know, the greater your chances of finding fresh leads, insights, and ideas. Conduct informational interviews Return to your roots and remember to conduct interviews that may not (or probably will not) lead to a job,... View Details

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

particularly interested in certified process standards. For example, ISO 14001 is focused on environmental management, and ISO 9000 on quality management. Social Accountability (SA) 8000 focuses on labor management. (ISO is the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States

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25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

age, he knew that golf was not his central passion. HOME REGION Jakarta, Indonesia UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE GoPay (part of GoJek Group), Bain & Company, Clutch Technologies, Argus View Details

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

organizational processes of developing a business model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46978 The Liability of Leakage: How Indirect Ties to Competitors Impact Innovation in Entrepreneurial Firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

extend locational advantages takes on equal weight with R&D process management. Locational advantages - rooted in proprietary information flows, special relationships with local companies, and preferential... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Entrepreneurs Prepare for leadership roles after working as an individual contributor or functional specialist. "I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I... View Details

12 Aug 2020
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Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

them more aware of misdeeds.” During arbitration, claimants and brokerages rank their preferred arbitrators from a random Finra-generated list, striking ones that might side with the opposing party. Brokerages typically tap into vast troves of proprietary View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

global financial events. His first course-length experiment had been a success. He saw the case method bring history—which many students thought of as a dull procession of inevitable events—to life. Character, narrative, and tension gave... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Jul 2002
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Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

of information and perspectives between the two firms, and led to a novel type of agreement. ABB would design and build the plant at a far lower cost than standard. Then, if ABB could reduce the cost even further, it would receive a... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Research Design - Impact Investments

founders, investors, CEOs, as well as Impact and Finance Executives. These in-depth interviews aim to get firsthand information on how impact is defined, measured, and achieved alongside financial returns within these companies as well as... View Details

31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2024
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Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
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Bizongo and e-B2B in India

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Radhika Kak

Bizongo, an Indian e-B2B platform was co-founded by three college graduates in 2015 with the goal of creating the "Alibaba of India" when the B2B e-commerce landscape was practically non-existent. The founders saw a significant opportunity in connecting mid-sized... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Business Strategy; India

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20 Oct 2023
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, and queer communities. Here, current HBS students share their personal stories through the National Coming Out Day storyboard series organized by the HBS PRIDE Club. We accept everyone in any stage of their coming out View Details

22 Oct 2019
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Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

growth of competing companies or countries. Firms can also process and use unstructured data, such as text from documents. “There is so much data we can use,” Chung says. “For example, average temperature—you may think it has nothing to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Mar 2015
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Advice on Advice

poorly, either by taking the conversation to unrelated tangents or by omitting key information that might cast the advice-seeker in a poor light Misjudging the quality of the advice they are given Once advice-seekers have received... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Feb 2000
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Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

products from development to market at an ever more rapid pace." In the following excerpt, Kuemmerle examines two foreign R&D sites created to meet those two needs: a home-base-augmenting site, in which information flows from the... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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