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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
examine the effects of team familiarity and diversity in experience on performance for software development projects. We find the interaction of team View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from an Indian software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
particularly in developing, technology-poor countries. Harvard Business School professor Diego Comin teamed with Harvard University's Philippe Aghion and Brown University's Peter Howitt to research the issue and write the working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
ER costs have dropped significantly. The Power Of Checklists Gawande also stressed the importance of implementing checklists in health care. (Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto. Knowing that the manufacturing industry was View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. “When they founded the company, venture capital wasn’t a familiar term,” says daughter Bishop. “My father felt like he was an entrepreneur. That was how he explained their... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people make wiser choices. “You’re... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
VEDP is to be a “super-collaborator.” Economic development is really a team sport, he says. The process was both familiar and unprecedented. “It was similar to any RFP in its elements, but the stakes were... View Details
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
business side, too.” Elberse interviewed Johnson, Garcia, and several members of their team for her new case study, “Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson,” which she taught for the first time last month as part of her second-year MBA course, and... View Details
- Web
SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
these familiar benefits of competition? This question of trade-offs is not just theoretical, because there’s a growing sense that SpaceX is building a monopoly—or, in some respects, already has one. Class session 11: Public funding and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
drive this reaction. February 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science When Does Familiarity Promote Versus Undermine Interpersonal Attraction? A Proposed Integrative Model from Erstwhile Adversaries By: Finkel, Eli J., Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with students about subjects such as... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in experience on multiple measures of performance for software development projects. In most cases, we do not find evidence of a significant main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
a token hire. Knowing the extended team around the business is diverse, can allay these concerns. Ask your investors to help sell the business to prospective candidates. This can be especially critical if you’re trying to hire a senior... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
varied experience) and learning by groups finds inconsistent results. We hypothesize that repetition of interaction may help explain this difference, as familiar teams may be able to use the knowledge gained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
During the pandemic and the disruption in business worldwide, the HBS Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship opportunities for... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
teaming up with some local firm in Europe that offers a complementary product? Couldn't we get what we need through a joint venture?" If we don't make this move, we get killed by VisiDat—or some other competitor we don't even know... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
application process. If organizations are able to forego the long forms on company websites, students appreciate when job postings are available on 12twenty as it allows students to apply through a platform they are familiar with and... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg