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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and Modules, HBS professor Pankaj... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Google Is Ripe for Trump’s Sore-Loser Conspiracy Theories
- 11 Feb 2014
- News
The Trouble with Sunspots
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
a financial analyst with IBM's Latin American division for three years, planning all along to go back to school after gaining some work experience. "Harvard expects you to do research that has certain managerial implications. That was... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
person or group often tends to underperform, thus reinforcing diminished expectations all around. Examining such a situation with both intergroup and psychoanalytic tools, Thomas and Proudford help reveal the dynamics at the heart of the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is testing that View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Reichheld, maintains that it isn't new market forces that make loyalty so elusive in the digital arena — it's faulty leadership. Applying his breakthrough loyalty theories to the digital economy, the author shows that the Web can actually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Sharique Hasan in a recent working paper. Their field research shows that the highest quality ideas are generated by people open to new experiences engaging with extroverted peers. In 2014, the researchers headed to New Delhi to study the intersection of personality... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
high-performing salesmanship, right? And so then the theory behind that could be that we know that people that are somewhat inattentive tend to be more creative. So maybe that's why, because there's a creative element to the sales... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Carliss Baldwin first enrolled at HBS, her goal was to work on Wall Street. But things did not go exactly as planned. "During my last year at MIT," she explains, "I had taken some courses from [current HBS professor] Bob Merton on the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
narrowed. "Much of what we teach in management theory is that there is one best way to do things," West observes. To explain the existence of two "best ways," he cites differences in the institutional contexts in which U.S. and Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
re-education occurred when Spier won an opportunity to lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, a three-hour steak-a-thon. Buffett encouraged his dining companions to live their lives by an internal scorecard and to filter out distractions and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
in the theory called disruption. And then, there was a second puzzle. And that is, I wonder if innovation is intrinsically a crapshoot because everybody-- every company and every project, when you started out, you don't plan to fail. You... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
relationships throughout the value chain. And Kaplan and Cooper explain how product engineers use activity-based cost information to design products and services that meet customers' expectations at minimum cost. Islamic Law and Finance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
senior associate dean for International Development. “More importantly, in an insidious way, we never acknowledged that the concepts and theories we were teaching students really were based only on US data. We were teaching them as if... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
to know that across the country, the population of ethnic consumers was growing. “I’ve always subscribed to the theory that trends are like horses,” adds Scharfman. “It’s easier to ride them in the direction they’re already going.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details