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- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
kidnapping, from a fire in an office block to an airliner crash in the jungle.” “People who survive disasters are the ones who are able to regain cognitive function quickly, assess their new environment accurately, and take goal-directed...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
case-based learning model. Will HBS Online continue to offer Disruptive Strategy? Harvard Business School Online is saddened by the loss of acclaimed teacher, scholar, and innovator Clayton Christensen. Professor Christensen’s online...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
in multiple functions in the United States, China, and Switzerland, the company's global headquarters. For the past two years he has been responsible for preparing the global launch of a breakthrough therapy that may transform the...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
extreme heat, loss of the Web or telephone lines, disruption in the water supply). 2. A flexible set of response modules. Leaders should be able to pull combinations of pre-set response "modules" off the shelf. Modularizing the...
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by Michael Watkins
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
Xbox, make their profits from game developers through royalties and incur losses on the sale of consoles to users by pricing them below cost. The key reason is that two-sided platforms must solve a chicken-and-egg problem. For example,...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
costly for both employees and employers, in terms of direct medical costs as well as costs stemming from lost productive time and missed days at work. Resilience training has been shown to improve workplace functioning for employees,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
in MBS duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is limited in the short run, so...
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Business History - Faculty & Research
safety, morals, and health could be protected. Article Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taisho Japan By: Tom Nicholas and Hiroshi Shimizu Japan experienced a transformational phase of technological...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
coconut water and pink Himalayan salt, with lemon juice and stevia for flavor. Seeing a big opportunity on her hands—an effective, functional product with cleaner ingredients than anything on the market—Picasso left her job at Jet.com to...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
comprehensive leadership programs offered by Executive Education at HBS, is designed to enhance one’s business perspective, management expertise, and leadership skills. “As a woman in construction, I wanted to elevate myself more around profit and View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased significantly from 1994 to 2004, that the strength of risk management functions...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
companies still are integrated—just in a different place. Consider the computer industry in the 1990s. The computer's basic performance was more than good enough. What did customers want instead? They wanted lower prices and a computer customized for their needs....
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
returns are negative. Accounting returns in countries with higher earnings management mean revert more slowly for profitable firms and more rapidly for loss firms. Thus, earnings management incentives to slow or speed up mean reversion in...
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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we get information and reassure each other are lost when people go remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
for you, the next phase is building your core competencies to position yourself for consideration. Specifically, you will need to demonstrate general management and cross-functional leadership skills and perspective, operating experience (outside of your core...
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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
management processes, such as those to develop the strategy, translate the strategy, and orchestrate the senior management strategy review meetings. Many of these processes are new to the organization. Since they cross existing business and View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA
synthetically-produced drugs often have unpredictable emotional and physical side effects that constitute an extreme health hazard. Students, faculty, and staff should also weigh the seriousness of potential loss of View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
and corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the classic lender-of-last-resort thinking, the authors argue that an effective policy response to the pandemic will require the government to accept the prospect of significant...
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