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  • 16 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

as a STEM student, and how did you overcome it? I don't come from a finance background, and it often shows when I'm going through cases or engaging in the classroom. The jargon and concepts are new, but I find solace in breaking things... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

governance in the important emerging economy of India turn critically on whether one does a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance. We find in contrast to prior views that Indian View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study were advanced in responses to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

replacing directors, as they rarely succeed in getting a majority of shareholder support, our results suggest that director turnover takes place following shareholder activism even without shareholder activists engaging in, let alone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

before relaying them to consumers, pointing to respected health organizations, such as the WHO, as important sources. Consumers, increasingly skeptical as fake news proliferates online, are looking to brands to be the bearers of truth. He also recommends that brands... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 21 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

elections at all. We asked the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Vincent Pons, for some insights on the results. Pons has studied voter participation and engagement issues in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the expectation of being able to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any preconceived hypotheses. But in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

business models used by patent intermediaries. A key conclusion is that platform-type intermediaries (that facilitate transactions without taking possession of assets) have struggled, whereas merchant-type intermediaries (that acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

transform Aetna from a classic insurance company into a business that will engage much more deeply with its members around their personal health goals. His strategy depends on Aetna’s ability to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Up on the Corner

development projects that are imposed from above, with little concern for local needs. By the time she arrived at HBS, Dlodlo was herself the single mother of a two-year-old daughter, a circumstance that made business school a grind:... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

hundreds of the most used open source software projects—20 of which are detailed in the report. Call to action Tim Mackey, principal security strategist for SCRC, says commercial organizations can contribute to this project by conducting internal reviews of their open... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

integrating global market and local technical knowledge. We refer to this type of firm as a Knowledge Integrator and discuss how its strategy supports the competitiveness of localized suppliers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54762... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals

business each year. Eventually, I reached a point where I had a drive to explore other fields, and to push myself to learn and do more beyond my capabilities at that time. This coincided with an urge to begin a new phase in my career. I... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

procedures show that results are robust to omitting any individual standard setter. Publisher's Link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1617398 The Question of IFRS Adoption: A Very Long Engagement Author:Karthik Ramanna... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

capabilities” triggered a flood of debate and discussion on the topic. Unfortunately, the literature on dynamic capabilities has become mired in endless debates about definitions and has engaged in an elusive search for properties that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne