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- 01 Apr 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Spring greetings to all HBS alumni! The arrival of April signals the start of intense planning for spring events at HBS. The MBA spring reunions are fast approaching, and plans for the annual Club Officers...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
cluster, the algorithms of AI are really good at that. In the future, there’ll do even more things. So summarize this document for me, or give me all the things related to this. I think AI will help us create better filters for our View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
competency-based? Is it going to be its own way of starting to break some of the ice on the employer side?Pulsipher: Yeah, there’s both a strength there, but I’ll also make just a personal admission View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Harvard Business School, Future of Work,” you get a lot of hits. There’s a website for the project on workforce, which is the project that spans several schools. And then there...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
can start with what’s been the impact for organizations in the United States. We see an increasing attention paid to these emerging talent clusters that are driving the economy. One of the bell marks View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
investors who met with the firm. The records spanned a six-year period between 2004 and 2010, in which a total of 340 investors held 935 meetings with company executives. Of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
education required to start new businesses continues.Kerr: Leah, let’s actually turn our attention a little bit inward here. We love to have executives think also about their own companies’ operations. And so I’d love you to spend a...
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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
making certain types of public risk management less necessary. How this pans out is something that I plan to pay close attention to in the coming years. Q: Your book seems particularly timely given all the...
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by Laura Linard
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the longest time, creativity was considered the work of a genius operating on her own. The cult of the designer held sway, with little attention being paid to the system that...
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- June 2022
- Article
Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
The evaluation and selection of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet there are persistent concerns about bias, such as conservatism. This paper investigates the role that the format of evaluation, specifically information...
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Project Evaluation;
Innovation;
Knowledge Frontier;
Information Sharing;
Negativity Bias;
Projects;
Innovation and Invention;
Information;
Knowledge Sharing
Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation." Management Science 68, no. 6 (June 2022): 4478–4495.
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
job of a manager. In fact, they devote more attention to hiring than they give to strategy. Another important task of leadership is that of...
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- 10 Nov 2008
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How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
Summing Up Is customer volunteerism combined with "ownership" a double-edged sword? It's seems okay to involve customers in providing ideas for new products and processes. Encourage them to refer new business. But beware the downside View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
The Pokemon GO craze swept across the HBS campus in the last few weeks and it’s also gotten the attention of HBS alumni around the world. Beyond sharing the fun of capturing...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts More Ways to Listen Google...
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- April 2012
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How Many Direct Reports?
By: Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf
If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might sound counterintuitive, but research by Booz & Company's Gary L. Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured...
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Leadership;
Governance Controls;
Managerial Roles;
Adaptation;
Personal Development and Career;
Cooperation;
Management Teams
Neilson, Gary L., and Julie Wulf. "How Many Direct Reports?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
- 2019
- Working Paper
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholars have long recognized that the states’ authority to charter corporations bolstered their antitrust powers in ways that were not available to the federal government. But they have also argued that the growth of large-scale enterprises operating in national and...
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Voting Trusts;
Antitrust;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
History;
United States
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Laura Phillips Sawyer. "Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-109, May 2019.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
the downsides of the cluster phenomenon. After the French tire maker Michelin introduced radial tire technology—which in effect doubled a tire's useful life—Akron tire companies quickly began to lose their edge. The Akron firms faltered...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
career and networking information, and access to many search engines and databases. For more information, check out the article on page 6 of this issue. This is a valuable resource for all HBS alumni, and I urge you to explore it the next...
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- 06 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better
hobbies. Every five minutes, they sent a prompt to ask participants whether their minds were wandering—or whether they thought their partner’s mind was wandering. The team found: Nearly a quarter of the time (24 percent), the listener...
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by Michael Blanding