Context - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

incredibly intense competition," Stafford notes. "But students don't have much context to evaluate what that really means and to understand what types of frictions prevent markets from being competitive." "It's not so... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and Control Unit have spent a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

Bill Leigh. Broader takeaways and thoughts for potential applications in the U.S. context As with Crossbridge Energy in Denmark, the processes, infrastructure, and expertise of traditional energy players in the U.S. is critical and... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023

construction. Pott’s dinner lecture brought the climate fight into the context of history and humanity and sparked deeper conversations with alumni, faculty, and students at each table. Later in the week, visits to Greentown Labs,... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

horizon? We will study the case of Klarna, a successful FinTech company that cut employment by half as AI technologies have been instituted across functions. We will place the adoption patterns we observe in historical context by... View Details

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

well as specialized companies like Videa Health, Metaphysic and Instadeep that are applying AI to more specific problems (Dentistry, Movie/TV production, Route optimization etc.) We also look at the power of algorithms to shape consumer behavior (TikTok), the misuse of... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Consider Social Impact Leadership in a Warming World The HBS Club of Singapore and HBS Club of London cosponsored a lively virtual discussion, in late September to explore the ways companies can drive social impact in the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

context of venture-backed companies. Professor Nanda, you’ve identified 2006 as a turning point in venture capital investing. What happened then, and how did it change the decision-making process among venture capitalists? Ramana Nanda:... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. “Disruptive innovation” is a term you’ve used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it mean in the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

business as well. “In the context of teams or negotiations, adopting a competitive mindset can lead to undue pessimism about how others feel,” Lees says. “These inaccurate beliefs can lead to missed business opportunities. But if those... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

individuals approach a potential moral choice, whether they have the ability in the moment to enact it, and how it is encoded in the action's aftermath, feeding back into future approaches. Throughout, we attend to the role of organizational View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something... View Details

Keywords: Time management

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

actions any more than you'd let them dictate yours." As a result, Wheeler is skeptical about one-size-fits-all negotiation strategies. An approach that succeeds in one context could be disastrous in another. That makes him equally... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

business, Bartlett says. "That's a big change that's taken place." The World's Communication Pipeline Another seismic shift is the broader context in which companies now operate, forgotten all too easily in today's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of income to real-world poor people in the context of dictator games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2003
News

Patrick Moreton

mandate requires that the spectrum’s users satisfy the communication needs of the public. In recent decades, the FCC has interpreted this mandate, in the context of the radio and television industries, as requiring a degree of “localism... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

roles. Courage in the C-Suite Authors:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 12 (December 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the atricle: http://hbr.org/2011/12/courage-in-the-c-suite/ar/1 Values, Purpose, Meaning, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

of Boca Junior's business model and how it differs from that of the richer soccer clubs in Western Europe. Also enables an assessment of successful talent and brand management strategies in the context of a sports franchise with a... View Details