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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the HBS Initiative on View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
extraordinary social inventions. It emerges through the will of an individual who has to mobilize others—employees, customers, and investors--to join. The enterprise grows as it creates value, it adapts and evolves, and, when it stops... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and business administration, as well as economics, sociology and political science, and to historians.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
start a company and never harder to build one," and with Dan Isenberg, who notes that equating entrepreneurship with a start-up is not wrong, but is an incomplete picture of business formation. Significant value creation cannot occur without growth, so the failure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
future employment opportunities). However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift-by offering a raise (with no additional conditions) after the employee has accepted the contract-does lead to higher productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
terms of strategic negotiation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable tourism, and economic development. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-049.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs By: Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson Abstract— Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Periodical:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007) Abstract Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days—and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups and downs are unknown. Most managers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social networks... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
acknowledged that the difficulties faced in RE are multifarious, recent research has primarily focused on limited factors. This ongoing research project addresses this limitation by integrating the fields of social and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
investigate the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Using a matched sample of 180 companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted environmental and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
that, prejudice and discrimination will go down. So we now, have over 80 leaders in over 25 US cities and Canada, who are taking their message out-- whether it be through social media or speaking engagements-- to help people understand... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with their yellow Lab, half a dozen chickens, and a few sheep. While Adams has kept his hand in the business world through Vineyard Ventures, a small, private equity fund that has invested in companies as far-flung as Chile and China, he’s just as likely to be studying... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
discussions help students develop persuasive skills. Management is a social art; it requires working with and through others. The ability to tell a compelling story, to marshal evidence, and to craft persuasive arguments is essential to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
so that you can read it cover to cover or slice and dice it like a playlist. You can read it backwards. You can just read about Wall Street or consumption or the end of the social contract. You can make the book yours as you choose.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most recently for Bridges Ventures, a London-based venture-capital... View Details