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- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
effectively cutting them by about 18 percent. For the sales personnel, that meant 7 percent lower take-home pay. Before the cut, the division’s salesforce had an average take-home pay of $17.30 an hour, comparable to neighboring call centers. That was an important...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
consumer-fitness experience and grounded it in medical science for a chronic disease population?” asks Lee, a 2023–2024 Blavatnik Fellow who will spend her fellowship year developing and testing an on-demand video prototype. Exercise can...
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(278) Environmental Accounting (7) Environmental Sustainability (175) Equality and Inequality (40) Equity (24) Ethics (164) Ethnicity (7) Executive Compensation (13) Executive Education (11) Expansion (1) Experience and Expertise (6)...
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- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
country that we go to, we always visit the open market, because that’s where you see real living,” he says. “You see it out in the open.” "Coming down the mountain at full speed, there’s nothing like it." People experience View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
saw an unprecedented explosion of venture capital activity worldwide, far eclipsing 2000 and earlier venture peaks. What was behind this dramatic surge of activity? How severe will be the inevitable downturn that followed? How will these events affect the View Details
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
in-group." Past research shows negativity spread fastest in contexts that involved two or more rival or competing groups, where negative emotions were more likely to prevail. The polarized nature of American political discourse,...
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- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
and was accepted into the program, which would be a transformative experience that set her on a trajectory to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard...
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
self-insight. Consequently, spontaneous thoughts potently influence judgment. A series of experiments provides evidence supporting two hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that the more a thought is perceived to be spontaneous, the more it...
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- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
We can't be the alpha dog all of the time. Whatever our personality, most of us experience varying degrees of feeling in charge. Some situations take us down a notch while others build us up. New research shows that it's possible to...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
influences playing on strong natural aptitudes, particularly in mathematics, it's not surprising that Hughes was a high-school standout in Polson, Montana. Among her many honors: being named to USA Today's "Top Twenty All-Academic USA...
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Charlie Hogg
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
deeply. We found that gender biases affect women at all stages of their careers and create barriers to advancement. Identifying and understanding the commonalities in many women's experiences is an important first step to overcoming the...
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- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital
opportunity to strengthen his profile and built business development and startup experience through internships. Memme also continued crafting and reflecting on his Career Criteria, had regular check-ins with his Career Coach, Kristen...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories
By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy...
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Geographic Location;
Industry Clusters;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
San Francisco;
San Diego;
Massachusetts
Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
- 2008
- Chapter
Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model
By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an...
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Business Education;
Ethics;
Managerial Roles;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Culture;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Mathematical Methods;
Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, and Herbert Gintis. "Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model." In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, edited by Paul J. Zak. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
insights and tools one can put into practice. Steven and I describe in detail how to build organizational capabilities, set up a good structure, implement the right processes, and adopt an effective management style. Achieving strategic integrity is always important...
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- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
money, time, and connections that part the workplace waters—even when they don’t have the best ideas or the most talent. “It’s a myth that hard work is enough. We’ve all had experiences where we worked hard and still ended up losing out...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
anti-trust immunity. Capitalism is not a natural system and it did not emerge or spread by an unguided process like biological evolution; it has only existed since the liberation of the markets for land, labor, and capital, i.e., the end...
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Martha Lagace
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Clubs - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Clubs 2ms Student-led clubs and activities give students the opportunity to become better informed about and engaged in issues and possible career paths. A number of clubs focus on the link between business and environment...
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