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Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights
In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural, and psychological insight if there is to be any prospect of... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights." Negotiation Journal 27, no. 4 (October 2011): 493–497.
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
the spectrum, which was part of what drove me to enroll in the MBA program. What influenced your decision to go into clean tech? I’m definitely passionate about the environment and interested in finding... View Details
- Web
ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Promote a dynamic urban marketplace powered by diversity, creative enterprise, and untapped competitive advantages Determine the industry clusters with the highest market opportunity for inner city business... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Publishing), a soon-to-be-published book by HBS Professor David Yoffie, who served as moderator of the panel. "Judo is the art of hand-to-hand fighting in which the weight and efforts of one's opponents are used to bring about their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation
By: Zeyang Jia, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
We introduce the "cram" method, a general and efficient approach to simultaneous learning and evaluation using a generic machine learning (ML) algorithm. In a single pass of batched data, the proposed method repeatedly trains an ML algorithm and tests its empirical... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning
Jia, Zeyang, Kosuke Imai, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "The Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation." Working Paper, March 2024.
- July–August 2021
- Article
Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes
By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche
We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details
Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor
Conti, Annamaria, and Maria P. Roche. "Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes." Organization Science 32, no. 4 (July–August 2021): 965–986.
054: Christine Exley on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and Wagaroo
Frank Conway, host of Economic Rockstar, interviews Christine Exley about why she co-founded Wagaroo to help save dogs, how a trip to Honduras changed Christine’s academic path from mathematics to economics, and her work on what factors influence volunteer and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
with the eventual goal being a series of books, a worldwide travelling photo exhibition and a powerful commercial website. “It’s a very global concept, a very global brand, in the best HBS tradition,” he... View Details
- 02–03 Dec 2022
- HBS Alumni Events
D^3 Catalyst: No Code Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Do you want to delve into Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, but you feel overwhelmed and intimidated? Do you want to leverage the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence without writing any code? Do you want to leverage Machine Learning and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
class's education was enhanced by the fact that "our classmates are a refreshingly down-to-earth group of people who contributed to all of our learning in meaningful ways." The influence of that dynamic, Senor noted, is at once pervasive... View Details
- July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth to found Sampark Foundation — a grant-making philanthropy with a mission to transform learning outcomes for 20... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Cultural Change; Digital; Innovation; Experimentation; Metrics; Education Reform; Non-profit; Frugal Innovation; Scale; Ecosystem; Government; Education; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Innovation Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Digital Transformation; India
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-015, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 2018
- Article
Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance
By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team's performance. We find that teams whose members lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Office Space; Knowledge Spillovers; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Sharing; Performance; Technology Industry; India
Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance." Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 9 (September 2019): 1394–1416.
- Research Summary
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I am interested in the individual experience of learning in organizational settings, particularly how employees learn to learn from the challenging work they do.
I am currently researching the role of reflection for raising awareness of learning opportunities that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
nonprofit. That’s a pretty powerful way to continue serving your fellow man.” Next: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009) — Taking lessons learned in Iraq to HBS and Washington » View Details
- September 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 3: Using Information for Performance Measurement and Control
By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use information to control critical business processes and outcomes. The analysis begins by illustrating how managers use information to communicate goals and track performance. Then the focus turns to the choices that managers... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Organization Process; Feedback Model; Innovation; Uses Of Information; Big Data; Benchmarking; Decision Making; Information; Performance Evaluation; Analytics and Data Science
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 3: Using Information for Performance Measurement and Control." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-103, September 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages
By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's R&D takes place. The leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry
Alcacer, Juan, and Minyuan Zhao. "Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-064, February 2010.
- Web
Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
meaningful use program that was introduced in 2009 and 2010. However, the capabilities of today’s IT infrastructure fall well short of that needed to truly support value-based care. Consensus among IT suppliers, providers, payers, View Details
- Fast Answer
Pharmaceuticals: Company Data and Analysis
Where can I find pharmaceutical company financials and analysis? We suggest you begin with: Capital IQ - Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News