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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
this a scam?' For us, the most important thing we've done is build trust with the community," said James DeJulio, co-founder and chief product officer of Tongal. "Our marketing strategy was to pay people as fast as we possibly could. If...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Kerr. Today I’m speaking with Scott Pulsipher, an HBS alumnus and the president of Western Governors University, or WGU. Scott is going to talk with us about the innovative practices and involvement of...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
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by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman
- 02 Aug 2021
Life at HBS: Business of Sports Club
Life At HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. These current students will share their backgrounds and talk about how they have cultivated their personal and...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
HBS Working Knowledge Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Re: William Kerr Software invention spurred the rapid ascent of six American tech hubs, helping them draw talent from even larger cities. View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Xiaosheng Mu and Alexander Peysakhovich
Human information processing is often modeled as costless Bayesian inference.
However, research in psychology shows that attention is a computationally costly and potentially limited resource. We study a Bayesian individual for whom computing posterior beliefs is...
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Kominers, Scott Duke, Xiaosheng Mu, and Alexander Peysakhovich. "Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference." Working Paper, February 2016.
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
"If there is one thing that I hope this event will do, it is change the relationship that each of you has with this remarkable institution. We need you to be a part of...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particularly hard hit by Covid. In the midst of these challenges, Eastern Bank also became a public company as part of a growth and modernization strategy. How will that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Hancock: Thank you, Joe. I’m happy to be here.Fuller: Kelly, you’re the Chief Caregiver Officer of the Cleveland Clinic. Many of our listeners will know Cleveland Clinic. It’s...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability
What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to take advantage of it. What’s clear, though, is that AI will reshape the global economy and the world of work. The International Monetary Fund [IMF] estimates that 40 percent...
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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
being possibly regulated as a publisher, and many, many other things! Unsurprisingly, people get valuations wrong all the time. That’s part of what makes finance so much fun and so interesting. People’s forecasts View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
success in the role today really will have for what it takes to be good at this job. Job descriptions, also, they tend to be like rings in a tree stump. The attributes that were sought 10 years ago and 15 years ago and 20 years ago still...
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- 05 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
The Softer Side of Business at HBS
3. It’s Amazing How Much You Will Learn about Yourself These classes aren’t for the faint of heart – if you’re not willing to reconsider longstanding assumptions about...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
all of the HR burdens typically associated with it. So for that busy professional, they can post a project, get help on it, and it’s wonderful. When we’re seeing companies launch it more institutionally, if you will, what we typically see...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
me and what is most important to me. It may sound straight-forward, but I think it’s really important to have clear direction on what you want to do and how the HBS experience will help you get there. Then make sure that your application...
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- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
It's better to look good than to feel good. That was the observation of Billy Crystal's SNL character Fernando, and it seems to be born out in two articles from this year's most popular list. In The Manager in the Red Shoes, we learn that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
teller—and then see across the largest of banks where you have the best shot of getting ahead, where you have the best shot of wage growth, of...
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but across the government. I will say from the political side, it’s challenging, you know? So how do you manage the short term of what’s coming your way? Certainly what are the priorities for this president...
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- March 2018 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
China Vanke: Battle for Control (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo
In June 2016, the board of China Vanke, one of China’s largest and best-known private residential real estate developers, must vote on a proposed acquisition that is opposed by its largest shareholders, state-owned China Resources Co. and the lesser-known property...
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China Vanke;
China Resources;
Hostile Takeover;
Board Of Directors;
Shareholding Structure;
Shareholder Rights;
Asset Restructuring;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Valuation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
China
Paine, Lynn S., Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau, and Anthony K. Woo. "China Vanke: Battle for Control (A)." Harvard Business School Case 318-117, March 2018. (Revised January 2021.)