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- 23 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do
New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
our classes seemed to be participating less," says Cuddy, who teaches the MBA elective Power and Influence. "Some of the women exhibited body language associated with low power, so we wondered if that was in turn affecting how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
in Boston. [Image: jetcityimage] Related Reading Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems Helping Low-Income Families... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Exercise
Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise
The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
"Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 711-511, April 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
“Technological change doesn’t just stay in board rooms and companies,” she says. “It drives our most intimate personal relationships as well.” Spar, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration at HBS, argues that crucial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight
- 2007
- Working Paper
Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making
By: Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien
In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. Recognition refers to a class of cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence
Gavetti, Giovanni, and Massimo Warglien. "Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-028, October 2007.
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson joins William Kerr to discuss workplace trends, skills, credentials, diversity, internal mobility, social capital, and change management. Volvo Cars Retools Its Talent Strategy for an EV Future The shift... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Empirical tests of these key theoretical predictions have been relatively sparse due to the lack of appropriate data. The U.S. film industry displays two distinct allocations of property rights, which differentially affect marginal returns on a particular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2023
- Working Paper
Feature Importance Disparities for Data Bias Investigations
By: Peter W. Chang, Leor Fishman and Seth Neel
It is widely held that one cause of downstream bias in classifiers is bias present in the training data. Rectifying such biases may involve context-dependent interventions such as training separate models on subgroups, removing features with bias in the collection... View Details
Chang, Peter W., Leor Fishman, and Seth Neel. "Feature Importance Disparities for Data Bias Investigations." Working Paper, March 2023.
- June 2022
- Case
PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product
By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo
The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark
Green, Daniel, Victoria Ivashina, and Alys Ferragamo. "PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product." Harvard Business School Case 222-088, June 2022.
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets
By: Achal Bassamboo, Ruomeng Cui and Antonio Moreno
Prediction is an important activity in various business processes, but it becomes difficult when historical information is not available, such as forecasting demand of a new product. One approach that can be applied in such situations is to crowdsource opinions from... View Details
Keywords: Wisdom Of Crowds; Demand Forecasting; Price Forecasting; Forecasting and Prediction; Social and Collaborative Networks; Size; Performance
Bassamboo, Achal, Ruomeng Cui, and Antonio Moreno. "The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets." Working Paper, 2019.
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
After sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein ignited the #MeToo movement on social media, Hollywood producers began hiring more female film writers than they did before the scandal, new research finds. What's more, producers... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
a basic job expectation. "A lot of awards are focused on identifying people at the top of the class or people who went the extra mile," Larkin says. "This award did not recognize people who went above and beyond. It was an award for a... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
cause of a combined economic stagnation and social backwardness that only socialism could cure. In the early and mid-1950s this would lead to the expropriation of the property or exile (to Hong Kong and... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
innovative operating system and mouse, and Apple's current OSX operating system. Networking. Innovators spend a lot of time and energy finding and testing ideas through a diverse network of individuals who vary wildly in their backgrounds and perspectives. Rather than... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
competition is restricted. Using 28 million vehicle emissions tests from more than 11,000 facilities, we show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a service quality attribute that customers value but is illegal and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
both companies had to learn how to cope with the increasing interest in their business—not only by their traditional shareholders but also by new classes of share- and stakeholders. Total, for example, is followed closely by its... View Details