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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/sharrocks] Related Reading How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Biden and Other Incoming Leaders...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
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Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
role was assessment—being able to see where the skills base of an organization is. A second part was benchmarking, compared to peer organizations on these key skills. To what degree does the enterprise segment end up being relatively...
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- 29 Sep 2009
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inventions as the top 1% of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
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individual performance-based compensation, building a theoretical framework predicting more prominent use of team-based, seniority-based, and flatter compensation. We argue that compensation is strategic not only in motivating and attracting the worker being...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
board are being led. Even experienced CEOs and chairmen sometimes find it difficult to lead a discussion among people who are essentially their peers or even in some cases their bosses. It isn't easy to tell somebody to shut up when he or...
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by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
technology peers are a very high gross-margin business. And the reason that is is we charge an annually reoccurring license upfront for both universities that pay us, and then the premium product on the employer side, we charge an...
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- 31 Jul 2012
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mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
better." Graduating from HBS at the dawn of the psychedelic '70s, the Class of 1971 nevertheless seemed to follow in the footsteps of generations of MBAs before them, opting for careers on Wall Street or in manufacturing, real estate, or consulting. After all, at a...
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Deborah E. Blagg
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
resume or an online profile or something like that. So the goal was to create something like a universal HR database, where you can analyze the workforce dynamics of companies and compare those to peer companies or competitors. And that...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of...
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- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
companies to consider how they can institutionalize a level playing field for all employees, including caregivers of both genders. The misguided assumption that high-potential women are "riskier" hires than their male peers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
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the DA. In designing the DA career conference initiative, Harris and her team polled DA faculty representing all promotion tracks and length of service. They also captured best practices from across other NAH divisions and other peer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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at the top than business acumen and "soft" leadership skills do. Members of senior management now have more in common with their peers than with the people they manage. To thrive at the C-level, you must be a strong...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day...
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
deepening their own experience of oral communication. Together with faculty, she is also working to develop a robust methodology for enhancing student speaking skills through rehearsal, performance, coaching, and peer review. Sarah has...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
First-year MBA tuition in fiscal 2019 was $73,440, compared with $72,000 last year. The School’s combined tuition and fees for fiscal 2019 were near the midpoint among the seven peer schools tracked by HBS, and amounted to 15 percent of...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created, student-driven program that...
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important design priority of ours. Every fellow is given a dedicated coach. They’re guiding them through the experience. And every fellow’s engaging in this experience alongside a cohort of peers, where they’re not only supporting each other from a View Details
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and send those students your way.” And, frankly, it was a real breakthrough when we got connected with ETSU and Brian Nolan, and we, finally, we were able to find a peer who understood that that’s not what we were trying to do, that the...
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