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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
little hesitant about opening their doors to researchers, but when [we] called up the CEO without ever having met him, he was extremely open to learning from the research and to our spending a great deal of time at the company—sitting in on meetings, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
of a major research project that addresses whether rapidly growing Chinese universities will set the world standard for excellence in the 21st century. When I talked with Nohria recently about the year ahead for HBS, I asked him to assess Kirby’s View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog
that shape business environments in China and elsewhere. Leading China observers and CEOs of major Chinese firms will visit the class. Through cases, notes, discussion, and research, students explore the opportunities and risks of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto offers a simple View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom quite comfortably, as Professor... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
of the same techniques that I observed at the CPCL, such as role-playing and getting students to speak and listen to one another in one-on-one discussions at the beginning of class,” she remarks. “It's simply fantastic to watch students... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
Journal of International Business Studies Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams By: Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton Abstract—Through an ethnographic study comprised of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
implementing the techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only understand the problem but also... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
generator. We were also able to climb the inner staircase to reach the roof of the nacelle for a view of the helipad used for operations, maintenance, and servicing. The sheer scale and complexity of the manufacturing process left us in awe. The nacelle we View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
to be able to pass through easily, a testament to the port's adaptability. We observed the storage of wind turbine nacelles, where meticulous care is taken to rotate the hubs weekly to prevent alignment issues, and the use of drones for... View Details
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Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library
“Hints for Case Teaching,” HBS Professor Benson P. Shapiro observed that, “The case discussion process depends upon a delicate set of relationships: teacher-to-student, student-to-student, and class-to-material. . . . Because of the... View Details
- Web
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
motivation, the economic approach provides many useful insights for getting things done. The key observation is that it is impossible to perfectly measure and therefore impossible to directly reward the value that is created by an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
relationship management or customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
several key features of intermediated supply chains. We complement the model's insights with observations from a numerical study. Results: In the absence of an e-intermediary, auctions cause farmers to either overproduce or underproduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
comparatively in the dark, creating an “information friction” that the freelancers can exploit. In a March 2015 working paper, Information Frictions and Observable Experience, Stanton, along with Catherine Thomas (PhDBE 2006) of the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
more analytics won't change their skill set. You have to be a player first." Pete DeLisi added, "We also need to counterbalance analytics with the ability to see the big picture analytics can't be divorced from an understanding of the respective priorities of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
indication of a change in levels of CEO pay after the adoption of say on pay in the UK, they did discover an increase in the sensitivity of CEO pay to poor performance and a reduction in severance packages. The effect was more pronounced in firms with high voting... View Details