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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
important foundation, as I work with a large variety of platforms in different verticals. EC (second) year, I took Strategy & Technology with Professor Yoffie, which was my first introduction to the power of the platform business... View Details
- March 1994 (Revised December 1998)
- Background Note
Managing Your Career
By: Linda A. Hill
Designed to serve as background reading for the "Managing Your Career" module of the second-year MBA elective Power and Influence. Describes the way in which managers learn and develop through on-the-job experience. Outlines a model for launching a "success syndrome"... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Hill, Linda A. "Managing Your Career." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-082, March 1994. (Revised December 1998.)
- Web
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
complex dynamics among boards, executives, and shareholders; the changing rights and powers of shareholders; different theories of corporate governance View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
comments, "In a sense, I was writing things for her to read later. Each of these books is about the power of one person to make a difference." His most recent book, The Lost Years of Merlin, begins in ancient Wales View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 02 Aug 2016
- Video
Shark Footage With Ominous Music
- 03 May 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation scenarios that are characterized by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
computational power for model estimation. We overcome computational burden by utilizing an improved simulator for likelihood evaluation and the general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
for Understanding and Applying the Science of Decision Making By: Hamilton, Ryan, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—Scientists have spent decades creating powerful View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and Shalene Gupta is a research associate. They co-authored the new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Earn It,... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- April–May 2012
- Article
Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance
By: Joanne Horton, Yuval Millo and George Serafeim
Using a sample of 4,278 listed UK firms, we construct a social network of directorship-interlocks that comprises 31,495 directors. We use social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate... View Details
Keywords: Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Relationships; Resource Allocation; United Kingdom
Horton, Joanne, Yuval Millo, and George Serafeim. "Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance." Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 39, nos. 3-4 (April–May 2012): 399–426.
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
building a successful business is that the leader must then spot when external conditions require a change to the formula. And the more successful the business, the harder that change will be to pull off. This course, which introduces a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
refers to as “the engine of our business.” As the company continues to grow, both Surette and Peters reflect back on how their HBS experience has influenced their work as leaders. “Over the course of six... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
possible with this new branch of computer science, particularly the power of convolutional neural networks. It was through this curriculum that I fell in love with data science and learned about the... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
as a powerful source of well-being, increasing dopamine levels and boosting productivity, says Gino. “I’ve gotten into the habit of calling or writing a note to people I haven’t talked to in a while to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- March 2020
- Article
The Politics of M&A Antitrust
By: Mihir N. Mehta, Suraj Srinivasan and Wanli Zhao
Antitrust regulators play a critical role in protecting market competition. We examine whether firms can use the political process to opportunistically influence antitrust reviews of corporate merger transactions. We exploit the fact that in some mergers, acquirers... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Antitrust; FTC; DOJ; Mergers and Acquisitions; Government and Politics; Power and Influence
Mehta, Mihir N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Wanli Zhao. "The Politics of M&A Antitrust." Journal of Accounting Research 58, no. 1 (March 2020): 5–53. (Previously circulated under title "Political Influence and Merger Antitrust Reviews.")
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog
been a domain of great power competition from the Cold War to today. Understanding the inseparability of space and national security is essential to forming a theory of commercial space’s past, present,... View Details