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- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
of anchor to that choice,” Barasz explains. “So once I see that you wearing a gray sweater, maybe I assume you don’t like bright floral prints.” When this man sees this woman buying a casual yellow shirt, does he assume she doesn't like wearing fancy View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Arguably, the threat of ISIS is used as a red herring, to divert attention from other more fundamental issues within US society. This is a powerful strategy in the sense that it builds on people lack of knowledge and emotions. There is...
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by Staff
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Azmi, famous actress and political activist; Shinta Kamdani, CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group; and Dr. Manu Chandaria, chair and CEO of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft. Young Indian woman sorting red chilli peppers,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
distance with only a 5 percent loss. One of Skelly’s biggest challenges is the red tape involved in convincing residents and various levels of government that more power lines are a good thing. “We think the way to get this done is by...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
get people who had different backgrounds and interests than us to make a diverse group.” Shin, a Korean-born mechanical engineer who has worked in high-tech finance, and Behrens, a software engineer from Illinois with finance experience, recruited Foalea, a...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
firsthand accounts from Jeff Bezos, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Bill Gates, and other intrepid policy leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and activists. A launchpad for those who are ready to act now, this book is geared to...
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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
"the right environment" to promote accountability and head off future disasters. The corporate leaders we have interviewed say that culture isn't something you "fix." Rather cultural change is what you get after you've...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
acknowledged place in the business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. “Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat,” sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in the Park with...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
account by two of Teddy Roosevelt’s sons, Kermit and Theodore Jr., of their experiences in western China and eastern Tibet. The onion-skin map of their journey tucked behind the last page caught Moore’s attention. He traced their path for...
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of View Details
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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
heavily dependent on trade, tumbling commodity prices brewed difficult times for Australia's trade deficit and its persistent large current account deficit. What was in hold for Australia's deficit, which had been in the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
selfassigned mission to raid enemy troops of the supplies they had plundered. When they returned with food and gifts, a Christmas tree stood in the corner of the shack. It was hung with red hearts and blue-and-white stars and topped with...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
meeting—a GPP program that trains students to educate their peers about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. (In 2014, the Georgia Meth Project broadened its focus to become the Georgia Prevention Project.) Some of the students wear the group’s uniform—a bright...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
while growing up in fully staffed ambassadorial residences and being transported in limousines with darkened windows and little flags on the hood seems strange in retrospect, the multicultural upbringing had an impact that Lo has only...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Some of this perception was likely a result of his public confidence. Some may have resulted from his bluntness and his stated intent to cut through the red tape of Washington, along with its perceived stagnation, dominance by big money,...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local government agencies have created...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
own way, I’m trying to make up for the failures of the past. Amar Kumar (MBA 2010) SVP, Pearson Do more than deliver In our first semester at HBS we studied a case on relationship building—something about blue lines and red lines, and how...
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