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Ann DeWitt

After five years as a research scientist at 3M, Ann DeWitt was ready for managerial responsibilities that would require a new set of skills. "I wondered how I would make the transition," Ann says. "In slow steps or in one big leap?" Subsequent... View Details
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

business organizations are certainly economic instruments, we suggest that organizations have a range of effects and play a number of roles in society. To enrich knowledge about organizations, we argue that organizational research needs... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

social categories (gender, tenure within the firm). In dyad-level models of the probability that pairs of individuals communicate, we find very large effects of formal organization structure and spatial collocation on the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Partners & Families | MBA

and meet some of your closest friends. Partners Club The Partners' Club provides value to on-campus partners seeking opportunities to socialize and network with other partners. Eligible members include spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends,... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Z.... View Details
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a discernible View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

production of the primary product in order to capture more value in the by-product market. In the latter case, all waste is converted into by-product. Because the two markets are linked through the firm's (proportional) production of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with network effects? How can technology be leveraged to build multisided platforms? How can... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system—often because they saw an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 17 Nov 2003
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Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

can managers learn from the outcome of the Canada/Bombardier vs. Brazil/Embraer dispute about the most effective way to handle these types of situations? A: The dollar value of the Brazilian sanctions... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when making decisions based on data... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure

In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details
Keywords: grades; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 31 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product):... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 13 Dec 2004
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Sharing News That Might Be Bad

intrinsically good and not subject to reevaluation on a case-by-case basis," writes Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine in Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

system. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the technical system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them. Extensions of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services

follows: Start a SAS session on your local operating system (desktop or laptop) In the PROGRAM EDITOR, type in the following: %let rmt=sasconnect.hbs.edu 7550; options comamid=tcp remote=rmt; filename rlink " c:\xx\..\xx\sasconnect[or... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Action Plan: The Power of Story

As a guy who makes his living getting—and keeping—people’s attention, Charles Henderson (MBA 1991) appreciates the value of a memorable tagline. He knows that his is more compelling than most. “I call it my ‘heroin-to-Harvard’ story,” he... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs and to argue that they will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne