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- 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10
to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto time can salvage individuals' ethicality. We found that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment
who make a difference in the world. Situated on a beautiful, 40-acre campus in Boston, the School attracts faculty, staff, and learners from all over the world to share ideas and invent the future of business. We have evolved to meet the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility and industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique called Design Structure Matrices (DSMs), which allows us to visualize the architectures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
overestimated the market price of the repair. Women were quoted a higher price than men when either explained that they were uninformed about repair prices. Gender differences disappeared when callers mentioned an expected price—even an... View Details
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
innovation Earn by: completing any three courses within either subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 20-25 Hours Download full syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 Design Understand the service-profit chain and the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
the industry might have continued as it had for decades were it not for the growth of a different type of financial product. Structured finance instruments, described in the case as securities "constituting a claim on a pool of... View Details
- 09 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS
Independent Projects (IPs) for academic credit. IPs can be done individually or in teams, and can take on a variety of different formats (e.g. research paper, writing a case study, or doing a consulting... View Details
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
2. How to assess the risks and returns in private investments and real estate portfolios 3. How to perform relative value analyses of differing investments 4. How to manage troubled investments (when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em) 5.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
shows that, as people move between contexts where they experience different levels of status—something that is becoming increasingly frequent as organizations adopt more crossfunctional and flexible structures—these changes in status... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
every tub to stand on its own bottom.” Srikant Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for University affairs, explains: “This siloed approach was effective for much of Harvard’s history. View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
to communicate the next milestones and end vision to people with different backgrounds: engineering, legal, marketing. Empathy is another, because you need to be able to place yourself in your users’ shoes and empathize with their needs... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
emotional journeys as well as their physical ones. After we had met with dozens of individuals across the country, hailing from Bhutan, Syria, Congo, Iraq and beyond, we began our synthesis phase, deconstructing all of our conversations... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
and increasing societal inequality are. The invisible hand is, by definition, invisible. Also, tragically, in a capitalist society (but really in any system), individual or corporate greed can run amuck. Simply put, some will choose to... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
different innovation types and conceptualize innovation streams for your organization Diagnose why most organizations fail in response to external disruption Identify an opportunity or performance gap in your organization and write a gap... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
power. Equal ownership means that the parties must work out solutions to problems and differences beforehand, so that they enter the alliance with the attitude that they are true partners. With that mindset, the chances are much greater... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
positioning yourself? —Caroline Pan (MBA 2001) STEWART: There is no one answer to this question. The advice is not different from what men do, by the way. Unlike almost everything else a successful person does in his or her professional... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
basis of its offering-professional service firms. One element of competitive success is the extent to which a professional service firm can harness and increase the knowledge of its professionals, making knowledge of individuals an asset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download an entire CD as an View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
affect some people? We can look at the numbers: A study by the Ascend Foundation found that in Silicon Valley, Asians are the racial group most likely to be hired but the least likely to be promoted from individual contributor to manager.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne