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- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
the right expectation and rhythm for execution, discovering and developing talent to their potential, to being responsible for every decision I make. What's next? Teresa: In the year ahead, I’m excited to continue customer interviews with product and accessibility... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
process is too top-down. Or consider how achieving high levels of dedication to the firm (a strong culture) can easily slip into an attitude that resists change. Only if learning and change become an equally valued outcome can the status quo be challenged. Q: How can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Sciences Track at the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge, a University-wide competition hosted by the Harvard Innovation Labs, which identifies student ventures with significant potential. The experience “was a huge catalyst for us, and it gave us an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
the easy, obvious answer. This is one reason techniques like point-counterpoint, which requires groups to generate at least two alternatives, are so often associated with superior decision making. Usually, keeping track of the number of options being considered will... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- Research Summary
Overview
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
reaching higher productivity. Attracting FDI, generating jobs, and growing exports are positive implications of higher productivity. But the ultimate test of whether policies are effective is their impact on prosperity. And here... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
mistake made. Our tests show that previously when there have been serious restatements of financials, those mistakes would lead to a certain number of lawsuits being filed and a certain settlement amount from them. The settlement amount... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
as well. What kind of “life” will experimentation have outside high tech? What do you think? Original Post “Test, then invest” is an increasingly common saying among entrepreneurs and those who finance their startups. The idea is simple: Fast, inexpensive View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
with as well." IN SYNCH? Crew racing is a grueling test of strength, coordination, and endurance. Physiologists say that rowing a 2,000-meter race is equivalent to playing two basketball games back-to-back. The difficulty of keeping... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
Corporate scandals often follow a pattern: Whether it’s Theranos and its fraudulent blood testing technology, Wells Fargo and its fake financial accounts, or Volkswagen and its bogus emissions data, a whistleblower eventually comes... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
It has been very powerful to be able to test out multiple career and life paths with people who have direct experience in sub-segments of the health care and life industry, and to see how generous people have been with their time. This... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Ramesh Balwani, had long known that Theranos’ home blood test didn’t work, but misled investors to keep money flowing in. Holmes and Balwani are accused of defrauding patients, doctors, and investors of over $700 million. At its peak in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
first, LIFE Matrix (see below), offers insights about managing time, dealing with trade-offs between work and life, and how choices correlate with joy, meaningfulness, achievement, and life satisfaction. Another tool, currently being View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
and lived in four different states. We got married in 2013 and just welcomed twins in December 2019. It’s amazing how much has changed in our lives, but our friendship has endured the test of time and distance. Who would've known that... View Details
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Rethinking Brand Contamination: How Consumers Maintain Distinction When Symbolic Boundaries Are Breached"
If consumers view their brands as extensions of themselves, what happens when undesirable consumers adopt these same brands? I address this question by examining an issue that is of great concern to managers of high-status brands: the rampant spread... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
while dealing with the anxiety of the virus and distractions at home, this period is not the best litmus test for measuring the productivity of remote work, Choudhury says. In fact, companies may need to face the hard truth that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
entrepreneurship, 2. test potential start-up ideas, 3. develop your start-up while at school, and 4. access funding for their start-ups. If you're a climate entrepreneur, you can learn more and access more resources through the iLab's... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
sufficiently graphic don’t work. “San Francisco policymakers are devoting lots of time and money to fighting it out in court, and they’re operating on the assumption that text warning labels are going to work,” says HBS Marvin Bower Associate Professor Leslie John. “We... View Details
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
"non-traditional" candidates who may be a little off target. Participating in a search as the non-traditional candidate could be a test run for a future search in which you’re the bullseye. If the recruiter receives positive feedback from... View Details