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- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 1996
- Article
Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning
By: Michael Beer and Russell Eisenstat
Beer, Michael, and Russell Eisenstat. "Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning." Human Relations 49, no. 5 (1996).
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
“People often ask about the relevancy of education today,” says Elkins. “We can say to ourselves that we’re relevant because we’re important, or we can show people that we’re relevant. I’ve always needed my... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
American-born Philip W. Stern (MBA '82) moved to Australia in 1985, spending several years as a McKinsey consultant. He has been Down Under ever since. Now a self-proclaimed Sydney local, Stern is a partner at the management consulting firm View Details
- 1982
- Article
Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting
By: T. M. Amabile
Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching
Amabile, T. M. "Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 8 (1982): 573–578.
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. In this video, he talks about his path from hedge fund analyst to education innovator and the explosive growth of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Diego, also found that how employers frame bonuses played a big role in their effectiveness. In the study, teachers who received bonuses at the beginning of the school year—money they had to return if they didn’t meet achievement... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
grassroots activists influence business leaders, public officials, and other decisionmakers. Educate yourself about anti-Black racism to supplement your business school education. Read essays from “The 1619 Project” in the New York Times... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation
By: Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan Thomke and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali
Do senior managers help or hurt business experiments? Despite the widespread adoption of business experiments to guide strategic decision-making, we lack a scholarly understanding of what role senior managers play in firm experimentation. Using proprietary data of live... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation; Search; New Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Learning; Performance
Ghosh, Sourobh, Stefan Thomke, and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali. "The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-081, February 2020.
- January 2013
- Article
The Fog of Negotiation: What Negotiators Can Learn from Military Doctrine
On the surface, warfare and negotiation may seem to be polar opposites. The objective in war is to defeat the enemy. In negotiation, the goal is to find a solution that satisfies all the parties. Not surprisingly, little cross-learning and exchange has occurred across... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "The Fog of Negotiation: What Negotiators Can Learn from Military Doctrine." Negotiation Journal 29, no. 1 (January 2013): 23–38.
- 20 Feb 2019
Peek Program Chat at the Stevens Institute of Technology
Please join us for an informal discussion with a Peek Ambassador. Peek Weekend is a residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
Peek Program Chat at the University of British Columbia
Join this informal chat to hear directly from a past Peek participant and learn more about the residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
Peek Program Chat at the University of Texas Dallas
Join this informal chat to hear directly from a past Peek participant and learn more about the residential educational experience designed for college students to gain knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers
interested and involved in education issues as the father of two daughters enrolled in public schools. In 1972, he was elected to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
doesn’t take into account more subjective measures of well-being, such as quality of life. Sticker shock may have hampered investment The unprecedented scale and cost View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error
By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper examines the implications of work context for learning from errors in organizations. Prior research has shown that attitudes and behaviors related to error vary between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which... View Details