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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Stability Initiative evaluate the regulatory reforms since the financial crisis. The authors highlight several areas in which the reform agenda has made clear progress. These include heightened capital and liquidity requirements, more stress testing and capital View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can often be the best case View Details
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by Julia B. Austin
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
study in their paper, the researchers devised a scenario in which 163 college students participated in a T-shirt folding contest. The students were divided into fifty-six groups, all tasked with folding as many T-shirts as possible in ten...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
announced plans for fresh growth: he planned to double the partnership’s size and pursue what he called moonshots—dedicated efforts to accelerate in artificial intelligence and climate & sustainability that...
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Owner/President Management (OPM) eBaker | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Research & Data Services Curriculum See all... Service Audience Faculty Doctoral Students MBA Students Alumni Executive Education Staff Visiting Researchers Ask Us Ask a Question Fast Answers Policies Staff Directory How Do I... Request HBS Cases View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients—and winning new business...
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by Peter Jacobs
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
cost of evacuations or be wider to ensure every possible scenario is taken into account. In business, that could mean weighing the cost of not having enough stock to meet demand versus carrying excess stock. “That’s a tradeoff, and the...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
successes” because they deliver a venture to a well-resourced owner while mostly recouping backers’ investments. However, they’re not without complication: A startup’s founders might feel pressure to yield to the plans of an aligned...
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by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
adhering or not adhering. And reason it's so politicized So yes, this is not a political science discussion, but this has become a political scenario instead of a global health emergency that we need to manage. Frazier: Yes, we need...
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PatentSight | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
than networking to make friends. (Gino, for instance, recalled colleagues using copious amounts of complimentary hand sanitizer after work-related dinners.) The team also posited that networking felt ickier when a meeting was planned...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
openly reveal their own interests from the get-go. The seller learns that the buyer plans to use the cottage only in the summer, and in the course of negotiation agrees to look after the property in the off-season. Here both sides win:...
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by Katie Johnston
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
highlight several areas in which the reform agenda has made clear progress. These include heightened capital and liquidity requirements, more stress testing and capital planning at banks, and increased regulatory authority and tools for...
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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
buzz groups, and class guests. Role Plays Role plays place students in character to approximate a first-hand experience. The instructor may decide to play one of the roles during the exchange. Role plays can be built into a teaching plan...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
familiar manifestation of excess capacity," he explains, "is when market demand falls below the level required to yield returns that will support current production capacity. This is the 'demand-reduction' scenario commonly associated...
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Garry Emmons
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Embracing learning opportunities: Students' mistakes and non-standard approaches can provide powerful learning opportunities. Inquiring into process and application: Including questions and scenarios that challenge students to apply the...
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- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
like." Yet as car manufacturers, tech companies, and ride hailing services move forward with plans for deploying AVs, widespread deployment has been slow, primarily because AVs face a huge challenge: Many people are uneasy about...
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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The...
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by Jim Heskett
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change....
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