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- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder to determine the most... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Colgate University designed a study to compare the work environments surrounding two distinct sets of projects, one producing a much higher level of creativity than the other. Implementation of the initial research (which was funded by... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- Profile
Brittani Rettig
serving my blog readers. Living a life of service is one thing that keeps me very motivated. I succeed when those I serve succeed. "The differences are countless. My consulting role allows me to drive formal project management and lead my engagement View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a two-week, capstone project for which students worked directly with clients on a real-world, high-impact issue. We connected with some of the boot... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
alumni team up with students in Singaporean professional schools and universities for the club's 2019 Mentorship Program kick-off event. HBS alumni team up with students in Singaporean professional schools... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
or vice versa? "We were looking at how the brain prioritizes visual information and social information," Looser says. While participants viewed a variety of images including human faces, doll faces, dog faces, toy dog faces, and clocks, the research View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs and benefits of those... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students with a framework for analyzing how family ownership, control, and management affect value and whether and how more value can be created for the various stakeholders in family firms. The course is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
firm maintain a unified focus and operational consistency in new and existing points of sale around the world. One measure that Kompel and his team were considering was the Balanced Scorecard, a tool traditionally used by top management.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
highly focused field of neuroscience had been completely missed. So Amadio teamed up with two Atlanta-based partners—Christopher Klaus, a serial technology entrepreneur who provided $1 million in startup capital, and Jim Schwoebel, a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
shifts from the corporate team to lower organizational levels when the new business initiative reaches economic and cognitive legitimacy. We use these insights to revise the organizational ambidexterity concept, considering the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Business School Case 515-001 Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give it the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
possibilities. He joined Teach for America where he designed and taught a “Social Justice” course in an economically distressed community for two years. “This experience reinforced something I was beginning to understand – education alone... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
an experiment almost a decade ago in which the company allowed a randomly selected subset of employees to work from home for nine months while the rest of the team stayed in the office. As it turned out, the employees who worked from home... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
find that while a coordination system—the relevant processes, roles and responsibilities, and structure—can be designed to address existing individual and functional biases in the organization; the new coordination system will in turn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Revelation of Bad News, were published in September. To determine when and why companies engage in this behavior and what it might indicate about their future earnings, the research team examined roughly 70,000 call transcripts from all... View Details