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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
never be taken back. Talk less, listen more. “Corporate meetings are not first-year HBS classes,” observes Waldroop. “You won’t score any points by stealing ‘airtime’ from the person sitting next to you.” Waldroop acknowledges that the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual lines when asked to take an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
make them wiser. An observer of policy based on behavioral economics might well conclude that an assumption of irrationality may be valid, but irrational behavior is hard to predict. Why, for example, do people (even experts and managers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
brown image. . . . Observing the result, Land transmitted such enthusiasm that it was contagious.” 13 When Meroë Morse started at Polaroid in the summer of 1945, she also worked on Vectographs. That fall she joined Muller and the SX-70... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
H-1B visa sponsorship has very little to do with company size and is more closely tied to industry and/or a specific company’s policies. We have observed that smaller, earlier stage companies are increasingly willing to pursue visa... View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
We are currently working on a number of projects investigating decision-making, from how much money millionaires think they need to be happy to whether the feeling of being observed might decrease people’s likelihood of cheating on their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
is dangerously complacent with its place in the world. Marc Lindenberg, dean and professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, observed that today's challenges are structural, ethical, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
have not made as much impact, so we have an opportunity,” she said. Egon Zehnder, founding chairman of a global executive search firm, observed that most boards of directors seeking new leadership now put the quality of personal integrity... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?
let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
garden” While at Yale, Casey attended a law school event at which the speaker made an observation that made a lasting impact upon him. “He said law was the instrument of social change in the twentieth century,” Casey explains, “but if you... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
managing director, Cowen & Co., and author of the influential book Entertainment Industry Economics; and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), president and CEO, BMG Entertainment North America. Harold Vogel observed that while new technologies... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
sectors, the U.S. economy, and American workers and their communities. "In fact," observes Stewart, "over the past forty years, virtually every segment of the U.S. economy has required assistance at our borders or overseas." Stewart and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
mainstay of the American economy. So questions about the current Asian economic crisis elicit from him the wry, seen-it-all-before observation that "when you expand, it's always at the wrong time." After all, Hughes points out, with... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
done in the interim. Is my trouble normal? “Unemployment or underemployment is anxiety-provoking,” observed Davis. “This is especially true of MBAs who think they are expected to have ‘perfect’ careers.” Davis said she helps people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
teaching provides an extra-ordinary starting point for this new initiative,” he observes with pride. “The donors who supported the Christensen Center will enable the School to continue to build its global leadership in best practices and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
senior year looking for a job, this credential — knowing that they are going to HBS in two years — can lead to making authentic choices instead of positioning themselves for business school admission,” observes Leopold. “They can now ask,... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
mastery of a hundred interacting variables that is the glory of the kind of scientist we are talking about for our scientific companies." 34 He observed that the downfall of many scientific enterprises occurred because "just the time when... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
they will carve out more time for shopping and for sniffing out the best bargains. "What we observe suggests that households have fixed amounts of time to give to sites..." “Taken together,” the researchers conclude in their... View Details