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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
His 2002 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, for example, asked, “Why have intelligent and decent directors failed so miserably?” No doubt he had the spectacular collapses at Enron and WorldCom in mind. After every scandal there...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C., by View Details
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
hope that this President will do the same. Christine Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organization, & Marketing Unit: Donald Trump's recent executive order is indefensible. We must welcome the brightest students,...
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by Staff
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
intractable obstacles to achieve great success. What is often overlooked or forgotten in the Alger stories is that the individuals who "came up from their bootstraps" did so with the assistance of an important and influential...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
perspective: From chatbots to reengineering the organization AI’s revolutionary potential is best realized incrementally, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and Business Applications. How the tech giant is experimenting its way from AI...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
continue to evolve. Performance improves and prices drop. Today, artificial intelligence is used in the selection of retail sites and to facilitate one-to-one marketing programs; voice recognition routes callers to specific store...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
The vital signs of the U.S. healthcare workforce aren’t promising. There are shortages throughout—from doctors, nurses, and clinical assistants to pharmacists and home health aides. Covid-19 drove up the burnout rate, and retirements have...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
intimidates, never fear. According to Amabile, managers don’t need to be “emotional intelligence geniuses” to jump-start a positive feedback loop of creativity and productivity. “You can support employees’ ability to make progress and...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
Frontiers of Management. In 2001 she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award, its highest award for scholarly contributions, for her impact on management thought, and in 2002 received the World Teleport Association's View Details
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
article explores why we often think irrationally—and why, even when the stakes are high and mistakes are costly, we sometimes are unable to overcome our psychological biases. We begin with an overview of intuition and rationality in negotiation and then offer four...
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by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Keith Sonderling on job fairness in the age of AI The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has a broad mandate, policing discrimination in all aspects of employment. How does artificial intelligence (AI) change the...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
k=1, the self-price position auction, we show that the existence of a such mediator depends on the tie-breaking rule used in the auction. On the Value of Correlation Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Journal of Artificial View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and consultant Carice Anderson shares her...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
expertise in case discussions in our hybrid classrooms, by meeting virtually with prospective students to answer their questions about HBS, and by assisting current students in finding internships and jobs. I’m so deeply grateful to the...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
pressing need in today’s world to shore up waning public trust in government institutions through transparency and good financial stewardship. Christopher Smart worked alongside Cognetti in Treasury, serving as deputy assistant secretary...
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Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
information sources, award names, issuing bodies, and more.) to facilitate HBS business Intelligence and end-user access to HBS priority content.Delivered 8+ tagging projects for the HBS community, structuring content to promote and...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
ratios. Our results highlight the usefulness of EDGAR data, as well as the latent intelligence in search traffic patterns. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 Managing Churn to Maximize Profits By: Lemmens, Aurélie,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big data obtained from Google Analytics and the company’s own sales and customer databases to select the next season’s assortment. Peck was betting that View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational artificial View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
questions still remained: Was Promesa and the Oversight Board the best method to assist the island in fiscal recovery? Was the Board’s fiscal plan an acceptable approach? Would the island be able to regain access to capital markets and...
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Dina Gerdeman