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- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
dishes to add some surprises to the evening. A white elephant gift exchange game rounded out the evening. Declaring their holiday celebration on December 12 as the “coolest of the cool,” the HBS Club of Austin gathered at the North Austin... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
that of crowding from above; and the effect of crowding by lower ranked contestants is greatest when there is relatively little race-to-race churn in the rank ordering of drivers. Self-Centered and Other-Regarding Behavior in the Solidarity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
can change the rules to your favor and water has been reluctant to play the game on the field.” He added, “President Biden’s $1.4 trillion Inflation Reduction Act almost completely overlooked water. The omission is indicative of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
not enough: Intel must also engineer demand for its next-generation chips. So Intel is on the lookout for complementors: It has teamed up with MCI to provide more bandwidth for networks. It is working with others to develop interactive View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
receive multiple evaluations and thereby lowering the incidence of "false negatives." Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-116%20(3)_5dfe7025-e2cc-4e07-bfb4-f4204ae3d52c.pdf Working Papers The Cooperative Solution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
of transparency is a tricky one. For instance, some algorithms are reaching levels of complexity that are challenging to explain, and even good explanations of models can quickly become outdated. When algorithms are implemented poorly, employees may try to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
will have a newfound freedom to experiment with course design. Moon compared the new approach to a rule change in sports. “A change in the rules may not sound like much, but over time it can have a major impact on how the game is played,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
First, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level, so a 60 percent execution rate, for instance, might conceivably seem “good enough.” Second, the way the money was being distributed at the headquarters level—Stuckey’s level—was... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
but also ensures that the rules of the game are such that prosperity is widely shared and that problems like climate change are adequately addressed. How does democracy affect the power balance that enables free markets to thrive? RH:... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract— We develop a model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
desire of countries and companies to shift to a low-carbon growth path." Diverse Set Of Challenges One of the challenges facing investors and companies interested in getting into the game in Asia is the diverse set of cultural and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or businesses with a mobile... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
political conventions, but firms based in Olympics host cities started ramping up the philanthropy up to four years before the Games actually took place. Marquis attributes this to a combination of goodwill and good public relations.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
"holy grail" as opposed to goals (often merely financial), missions or visions, or even a set of values. As Mourkogiannis puts it, "Let others play with 'strategy' and 'tactics' and 'management.' Purpose is the game of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
took a job at Stride Rite. By the time eBay came along, I was at Hasbro in Rhode Island. Fortunately, my husband was game to move back to California. What was your first reaction when a recruiter asked you to consider interviewing at... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
organization. And finally they embrace inconsistency, allowing themselves the latitude to pursue multiple and often conflicting agendas. Read this article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-ambidextrous-ceo/ar/1 Working PapersBetter-reply Dynamics in Deferred Acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
all the cards. He knew what he wanted to accomplish and how he was going to do it. We could not read him but he could read us. He had an amused twinkle in his eye. He was playing a game, and he was good at it. It was not a game of Vancil... View Details