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02 Aug 2011
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PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2008
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The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

2016
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Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more... View Details

Keywords: Tourism; Latin America; Business History; Sustainable Strategy; Sustainability; Nonprofit; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Entrepreneurship; History; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Costa Rica

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The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance

By: Robert G. Eccles and Laura Winig

The equity research department of Credit Suisse and the expert network firm of Gerson Lehrman Group, historically competitors, have established a strategic alliance which both believe will give them a competitive advantage. Under the leadership of its head of equity... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry

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Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast By: Margie Kelley 11 Jul 2025 | HBS Clubs The Vinyl Revival Re: Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) 26 Jun 2025 | Skydeck Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) on why records are reclaiming their place in a world of streaming... View Details

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Logging In - Research Computing Services

Sessions Manager window pane appears on the left. Double click on hbsgrid.hbs.edu to connect, and enter your password when prompted. Once logged in successfully, you’ll be placed in your home directory at: /export/home// (e.g.... View Details

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial crisis of 2008-2009. Through the lense of a simple model of optimal bank regulation, the authors enumerate three core principles. They argue 1) single constraint should be used in place of multiple constraints on bank equity... View Details

01 Jul 2020
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How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

to learn more. I honestly don’t remember much about applying. The main piece that sticks with me is the requirement to get approval from your future manager to miss work for a week. I remember being nervous to ask because I felt that I was lucky to even have the... View Details

11 Dec 2023
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Corporate Strategy Development group and that was really life changing for me. I hadn't realized that corporate strategy at a place like Nike existed,” Leahy says. Nike was also where Leahy learned the power of building, growing, and... View Details

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

solely on the Gini, we would treat places like Teton and Monroe County the same. But that may not be the right thing to do. "Reducing inequality can be achieved by both reducing the difference between low-income and medium-to-high-income... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

group life." Moreover, she sang the virtues of difference and conflict in organizational life. In the 1920s she was encouraging leaders to replace bureaucracy with empowered group networks with a common purpose. [ ] Now, with the premium being View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

because they’ve memorized positions on the board in “chunks” of four- to five-piece configurations. But the chess master’s memory advantage disappears when pieces are randomly placed on the board, rather than in established patterns. When... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

resource you have access to, or you can try to increase your control over this resource by becoming one of its only providers,” the authors write. “Conversely, to decrease your dependence on the other party, you can try to diminish the value you View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

30 May 2005
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Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

that it would lose a great deal if its bid failed. Because its threat to counter your bid is not credible, you decide you will place a bid. The day before you are to announce your bid, your competitor's CEO says at an open meeting that he... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

work, typically through online delivery companies such as Uber Eats, Postmates, Grubhub, and DoorDash. (Delivery services are not new, of course. In 2018, American consumers used third-party delivery services to place $10.2 billion in... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

26 Nov 2019
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The Ritual Effect

partners. Like a Swiss Army knife, rituals can be used to produce whatever emotional or psychological effect is needed most. He refers to this remarkable versatility as “the ritual effect.” FUTURE SCOPE Professor Norton notes how the science of ritual answers such... View Details

Keywords: rituals

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Pharmaceuticals: Drug sales data

interest. Data can be displayed on a map or in a table. OECD Library - often have high level pharmaceutical statistics. ScienceDirect - Through literature search, one may find useful datasets from existing studies. This database can be a good View Details

01 Dec 2006
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How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

kinds of changes he studies have taken place over long periods of time. And they run much deeper than such things as short-term educational reform or job retraining. Why is it, then, that there is so much fear of outsourcing and... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

entrust their money to one of the big investment banks or brokerages—Citibank, Chase, Merrill Lynch, or Bear Sterns—which then invests it for them in hedge funds. Funds of funds, the word is on Wall Street, are the next bubble—the next View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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