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- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
returns and positively to post-announcement returns. When post-quarter private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
financial losses, and a large amount of wasted time for everyone involved. This book was written to help a person, family, or team transform any challenge or problem using a proprietary six-step process. It brings organizations together with a common View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that Natural Language Processing (NLP)...
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Anna Secino
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
better accomplished in a face-to-face interaction, versus an individual experience? I think the second thing I would say, the technology and the data underlying the technology is evolving. If you think about language learning—let’s use...
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Michael R. Bloomberg
after starting Bloomberg LP, Merrill Lynch purchased 20 terminals and became our first customer.”NEVER STOP LEARNING. “The most powerful word in the English language is “Why.” There is nothing so powerful as an open, inquiring mind....
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- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
and attach a more business-oriented perspective to the challenge: from added customer value to pricing, marketing, and so on. It's always a shame to see brilliant organizations where the technology team and the business team don’t speak the same View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
high-profile California. To the consternation of the trial bar, his advocacy group placed three initiatives (ultimately unsuccessful) on the state's March 1996 ballot. On the smoking front, Tobias, a Slavic languages and literatures major...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
Rwanda. In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did not speak English, including the teacher whose class he visited....
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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
and the page description language that evolved into Adobe. But since the company's sights were then fixed on its copier and large-systems printer businesses, Xerox missed the opportunity to take advantage of its scientists' genius....
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by Jim Aisner
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
Rwanda. In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did not speak English, including the teacher whose class he visited....
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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
online activities) and operations (e.g., school keeps track of student assessment results and select activities and problem sets from online databases). After the first year as a full-day program, results on the state test were very strong in math but below...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
to realize that most people feel like outsiders - feel like they are different. It's a beautiful thing and worth celebrating. During LHM, we are reminded that the Latinx experience is incredibly diverse. We have different mother tongues. Sometimes we speak the same...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession patterns are tracked. We train...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Indian art as a legitimate category of fine art. Newspapers and magazines (both general interest magazines as well as dedicated art publications) in India and abroad began to write not only about the auctions, but also about the art itself, usually using View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
theories: in the language of March (1991), clustering promotes exploration in information space but decreases exploration in solution space. Previous research, generally focusing on only one of those two spaces at a time, has produced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
language and consistent way of addressing the challenge of coherence, the PCF can help leaders create high-performing school districts that are responsive to the increasing external demands for accountability. Q: Could you please...
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- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
I learned how to speak Chinese. We went to Chinese language classes every Sunday for 12 years and I absolutely HATED Sunday School. I didn't understand why “learning my heritage” mattered when I was trying so hard to just fit in. But then...
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