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23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

enormous pressure, making it critical that farmers find ways to save money. To survive this long, they’ve had to change constantly." Donnie Benjamin MBA 2015 | Mapping the Future of Sustainability "My experiences in the military showed me... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during... View Details

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars relative to the norms of empirical... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago, desperately needs an overhaul. How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

that he underwent the most significant metamorphosis of his life, transforming himself from a professor of business into a world-class builder of innovative new enterprises." 30 Doriot's understanding of the risks and rewards of investing in new technologies stemmed in... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

told General Medina. He was a CFA with experience in international business, and now he had spent four years in one of the most taxing leadership positions imaginable. But he needed General Medina to support his petition to end active... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

highest-ranking woman in the AOL Time Warner organization — oversees more than 130 popular magazines, including the company’s high-circulation weeklies Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, along with well-known publications such as Fortune, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

about favorable future policy changes. A lab experiment involving monetary bets on the future popularity of politicians and a field experiment involving political donations (N... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

versus persistent) of performance feedback affects an employee's job productivity. Specifically, through field experiments at a Japanese bank, they investigate the extent to which job performance is affected... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

research on potential employers. 19. The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to 'Simplifiers' The mass consumption of the 1990s is fast fading in the rearview mirror. Now a growing number of people want to declutter their lives and invest in View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

and unequal, there is little direct evidence on the magnitude and sources of these frictions. We conduct a field experiment with 752 employees at a multibillion-dollar corporation to address these questions.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

about what Madhav should do next. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110001-PDF-ENG An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance—2009 Update Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia Jr. Harvard Business School Note 210-061 Provides an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between consumers and producers may diminish work performance. Two field and two laboratory View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

includes laughter, music, eating well, and finding joy at any age; the role of caregivers and their critical impact on extending your lifespan; how your environment and demographics affect aging, and how to adopt new technologies and advance research on aging. User... View Details

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

industry grows, the playing field is leveled, where one or two business models gain dominance, and managers who thrive in maximizing opportunities become the primary leadership archetype. The growth phase of the airline industry was... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust their overseas partners differently depending on the partners' cultural ethnicity. In a View Details