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- 06 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1
It’s tempting to not be in Boston in January, with its frosty temperatures and early sunsets. But if you want to network with and learn from business leaders, celebrity... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through
By: Holly Dykstra, Shibeal O'Flaherty and A.V. Whillans
Behavioral interventions often focus on reducing friction to encourage behavior change. In
contrast, we provide evidence that adding friction can promote long-term behavior change when
behaviors involve repeated costly efforts over longer time horizons. In... View Details
Dykstra, Holly, Shibeal O'Flaherty, and A.V. Whillans. "The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-020, October 2023.
- October 2016
- Case
Triangulate: Stay, Pivot or Exit?
By: Thomas Eisenmann, Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
Sunil Nagaraj, Triangulate's founder had spent a few years trying to launch a dating application that matched users based on their behavior on social media. Based on input from advisors, the company changed its focus from a B2B site to a B2C dating site with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage; Pivot; Two Sided Markets; Business Model; Business Exit or Shutdown; Product Launch; Venture Capital; Failure; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States; North America
Eisenmann, Thomas, Shikhar Ghosh, and Christopher Payton. "Triangulate: Stay, Pivot or Exit?" Harvard Business School Case 817-059, October 2016.
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS
prioritize your time between a social life, academics, career, and most importantly, yourself. You have to give yourself time to reset and recuperate – whatever that means to... View Details
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Japan - Global
Innovation Ecosystem.” During their time in Japan, the students participated in team-based consulting projects and attended a venture capital panel session in Tokyo. In Tohoku, they met local social... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
http://hbr.org/2013/12/the-hidden-benefits-of-keeping-teams-intact/ar/1 August 2013 Stanford Social Innovation Review Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model By: Marquis, Christopher, and Andrew Park Abstract—No... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2021
- Case
Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)
By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations
Elberse, Anita, Briana Richardson, and Cydni Williams. "Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)." Harvard Business School Case 522-020, August 2021.
- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
General Brigham, and Lily Payvandi, assistant professor at Boston University Medical Center, was published in March in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open. Audience question... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- Program
Value Creation Through Effective Boards
greater insight into corporate governance oversight and best practices, you will emerge a stronger leader and decision-maker, ready to create more value for your company. This program is developed View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
library would become a mecca for amateur family historians who would shape the next era of genealogical research in the United States. Through the middle of the 20th century, they created formal and informal View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
example, given the proliferation of networking technologies, will more and more innovation be carried out in communities that cross corporate lines? Following from this, one has to ask whether truly large... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Profiles - MBA
share a similar interest in technology, business, and social needs. By combining academic work through HBS case studies with real-world application of learned concepts, I hope to achieve tangible progress... View Details
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Public Education Leadership Project
with other administrators and educators from across the country, your team of eight leaders from your district will refine your management model, develop new improvement strategies, and learn how to serve... 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
from Pension and Insurance companies. Regulatory changes are used to provide collaborating evidence that the curvature of the yield curve is shaped through this demand channel. Related Themes: Credit... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music
By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
Deshpandé, Rohit. "Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 520-701, October 2019.
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FAQs - Doctoral
part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
nested in 155 teams, which we surveyed three times per day for 20 consecutive work days. These data show that employees caught their teammates’ passion and consequently reported better performance, lower emotional exhaustion, View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
timing of repayment obligations. The standard microfinance contract has very little discretion in terms of when you repay your loan, so Natalia and her collaborators did one of the earliest studies to look... View Details