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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was... View Details

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

best groups were those who had formal leaders not influenced ahead of time to feel powerful—they solved the mystery nearly 80 percent of the time. “Oftentimes we behave the way we do because we are not aware of the effects of our... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

2008
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Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

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24 Jun 2021
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Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

community, and then determining what influence we have to make change.” Reflecting on her decision to join the Joint Degree Program in 2008, Rentas recalls recognizing an opportunity to build skills that would allow her to lead... View Details

12 Nov 2018
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Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

work which I believe made a positive difference in the world. My beliefs have been challenged and changed while serving – I know many people feel that American influence in the world is detrimental to other countries and peoples, or even... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

Arps; Felix Rohatyn at Lazard Frères; Dick Fisher (MBA '62) at Morgan Stanley, who had a lot to do with my coming to the firm. I'd also never underestimate the influence of an Italian mother.” Best business advice ever received: “Joe Flom... View Details

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

while “applied” research sets out specifically to address a practical problem, with the intent of solving it. That poses a potential dilemma for scholars who want to influence business practice and achieve the requisite journal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Sebastian Velasco

pursuing capital, debt management. She took me on business trips to New York City; I got to know what the business world was like." The combination of his mother's influence and their business trips together led to Sebastian's first... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America

By: Tom Nicholas

Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Power and Influence; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Capital Markets; Capital Structure; Information Technology; Patents; Creativity; Economic Systems; Development Economics; United States

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

as another organizational factor influencing rates of sexual harassment. Alumnae working in companies where women made up 15% or less of senior leaders experienced the highest rates of harassment, while those in companies where at least... View Details

30 Mar 2018
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What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

researcher and consultant” identified as Cambridge Analytica used a quiz app on the platform to access personal information of approximately 300,000 Facebook users and, by extension, 49.7 million of their “friends.” The consultant allegedly used the information to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

09 Dec 2002
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Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

02 Aug 2020
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Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

level. Their work has been both influenced by and reported recently by several academics. Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman track experimentation in decision-making back to the Book of Daniel, BC 167-164.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

07 Apr 2020
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What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

platforms and influencer status to more meaningfully help those most in need. Surveyed consumers deem celebrities and social media macro-influencers to be less credible spokespeople for brands during a crisis, with most consumers favoring... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

research papers, rare books, ephemera, and visual materials—provide the documentary evidence that allows scholars to investigate firsthand the important business theories, organizations, movements, and individuals that have shaped our nation’s history and globally... View Details

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

on shaping and influencing the way tomorrow's leaders will change the world. The need for management faculty has never been greater; in recent years, a wave of faculty retirements, combined with a shortage of graduates with advanced... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Dec 2013
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

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