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- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
towards the end of the summer. Sophy: During the summer, I conducted field visits and surveys to understand better the need and gap. I discovered that while parents have higher willingness to pay, it is the opportunity to improve...
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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
learned something from it that we can use in making future decisions. As a result, we give unwarranted credit to such things as experience, intuition, and even common sense. Watts challenges our ability to assess the validity of...
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by James Heskett
- Fast Answer
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. ...
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- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
Surveys differed in the dimensions of teamwork that they assessed. The most commonly assessed dimensions were communication, coordination, and respect. Of the 35 surveys, 9 met all of the criteria for psychometric View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of headquarters-subsidiary relations in three of...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the...
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- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
fielded inquiries from companies all over the world eager to improve their management practices. “It’s validating when you get calls and emails from people in many different countries who want to survey...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
10-040, November 2009.) Abstract We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
of the criteria for psychometric validity, and 14 showed significant relationships to non-self-report outcomes. Conclusions: Evidence of psychometric validity is lacking for many teamwork survey instruments....
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.” Olds focused his initial study...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
Business School, plan to survey 250 Latin American firms in various industries to test the validity of their findings. "Above all," they say, "we want to confirm the existence of the various...
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by Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
Practicing active, habitual kindness can transform the remote workplace and it can start today. A little reassurance, compassionate listening, a conscious effort to validate people's fear and confusion all go a long way. Employees and...
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- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's energy think tank polled investment...
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recent survey of 652 museums in "Museums on the Map, 1995-2012" (published just this past year by Fondazione di Venezia). After setting certain research parameters in order to provide focus to the study (e.g., I looked at arts...
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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
Hans-Willi Schroiff, vice president of market research and business intelligence for the German company Henkel, described why detergent has made a valuable case study for new and edgy marketing. (They cautioned that they are not ready to claim any View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
they often brush them aside in favor of using their own intuition. Sure enough, that pattern emerged in the research team’s survey of 119 full-time workers from a variety of industries: 59 percent said they had consulted with multiple...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
"self-reporting in surveys and focus groups is a limited tool, and I have no doubt that in the future brain scans will augment traditional research methods." But for Mark Spellmann, research of the kind associated with neuro...
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by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
as returns to investors. So the question becomes, what is the board's responsibility in that context? Q: The survey that you summarize in the book's first chapter shows that directors are really wrestling with that question. A: In 2009,...
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by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
or expensive. We validate our findings through observational data on hosts’ recent experiences with African-American guests, finding host behavior consistent with some, though not all, hosts discriminating. Finally, we find that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and...
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