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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
of executing on its recently refined strategy. Opinions ranged across the following strategic issues: growing the firm's Asian footprint versus remaining focused in Europe; aiming to be a top performing mid-market firm or focusing on moving up a tier to compete for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
your boss. That's not the deal. You have to figure out the sources of power you have to influence the boss. You also have to see the boss as human and fallible in all the ways that you're human and fallible, and figure out how to deal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
attributes and skills required 6-7 hrs Module 2 Private Debt, Distress Investing, and Secondaries Compare and contrast private equity and debt and identify the skills needed for successful distress investing. Highlights From Equity to Debt Structuring the Pierre Foods... View Details
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
buying the bundle, you would think the company could potentially take in more revenue since the consumer has no choice but to get the bundle," Kumar says. "But it turns out that's not the case." The reason: Consumers know they can put off... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Past Issues - Alumni
December 2018 Tomorrow, Transformed A vision of HBS in the 21st century Source Code Donna Dubinsky has made a career leading tech revolutions. Her latest and most ambitious: reinventing artificial intelligence—by reverse engineering the human brain Hard View Details
- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
notice a new name.” Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Enterprise Outlook's 2003 Investor's Choice Award (one of ten software companies nationwide most likely to succeed) and ComputerWorld's Innovative Technology Award (one of twenty-five annually). Prior to Endeca, Steve was part of the... View Details
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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni
to make time for both. You Have More Choices than You Think Ambitious people tend to pursue demanding careers. As they advance, many professionals cannot help but wonder about the state of their personal lives. What do they owe, and want... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
how to deal with a customer issue, they know who that person is and how they are partnered with you. NOTE: For those considering cofounders who ARE your partner/family member/BFF, I encourage you to enter with a mindset around taking a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
encourage general managers to bring counsel in early in the decision-making cycle; they should not wait until the last minute to fight a fire that has already started or to bless a deal that has already been struck. The available options... View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
nudges can in some cases be more than 40 times more effective than the next most effective method, a dramatic result for governments dealing with scarce resources. “If you take a particular policy objective as a given, nudges give you a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
conquering the weight-loss market. With approval seemingly coming soon, Gaur had to decide what his strategy should be in continuing to grow Allurion, dealing with the challenges of the GLP-1 craze, and preparing for long term success.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
of history, there are five powerful forces working on the system of global capitalism in this moment, propelling it along the broad path that Gates sketched out at Davos. The first is the issue of resources. Who has what to deal with the... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 08 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to Business School as a Couple
sell-side deal and started dating shortly after the deal was announced. Though Kate had plans to move back to her home in Seattle, after meeting Patrick she stayed in NYC and worked in education reform in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
center employees are often expected to 'de-Indianize' many elements of their behavior—for example, by adopting a Western accent and attitude," the paper explains. Wipro was dealing with a big dropout dilemma; more than half of its call... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management and Organizational Behavior) Robert Simons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
choices they make when it comes to something as important as cheating," Gino says. It's worth noting that some of the most deliberately stressful organizations tend to attract the most naturally forceful people. Based on the researchers'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel