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- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker realize “how little these...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Related Links The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Celebrating the Women of HBS W50 Summit Event A Daring Experiment exhibit Women's Student Association 2013 Dynamic Women in Business Conference Women at HBS: Events, Projects, and...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
interest in expanding offerings along the lines of programs such as The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Odyssey. In the coming months, the committee will conduct a comprehensive inventory of current offerings as well as review past View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
colleagues [at Cornell University] were studying whether spending money on experiences makes you happier than buying stuff for yourself. From those studies, we learned that—across cultures and income levels—giving is better than buying...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
experience In 2010, Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) released The Book of Awesome, based on a blog where he had collected the tiny bright lights of life that he found during a particularly dark time. Since then, the former director of leadership...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 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
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Digital Transformation - HBS Online
professional network, including the HBS Online Connext conference, HBS faculty events, and HBS Online Community Yes No *Considered more impactful than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
incubators at the School experimenting with electronic distance-learning models, the Global Leadership Initiative has already launched a number of key research projects. The first, an interactive Internet View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
permanently as of July 10. And almost half of owners surveyed in late June by the online business network Alignable said they lacked enough cash to get through one month and were taking in less than 50 percent of their pre-pandemic sales....
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
women grew 67 percent between 2007 and 2012, more growth than women-owned businesses as whole saw (Nielsen Report, 2017). In light of these advances, a recent study by Ernst and Young (2017) found that one-third of Americans surveyed said...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups with managers, interviewed more...
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Judith A. Ross
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly misguided neuroscience and...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
HBS alumni have a complicated relationship with the notion of retirement. The simple vision of leaving one’s career at the age of 65 and moving to a sunny clime to while away the days playing golf may work well for some. But an unscientific View Details
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Personal Services
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
opportunities in inner city businesses, said surveys show a general increase in computer ownership and online access among inner city families. Even so, she pointed out, computer use in the inner city remains significantly lower than in...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product....
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on Friday and Saturday nights. Vacations were no better: 51 percent checked continuously when on vacation. If they lost their wireless device and couldn't replace it for a week, 44 percent of those surveyed said they would View Details
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- Web
Corporate Training Programs | HBS Online
Testimonials Why us Company More Info Client Testimonials Intuit Play Intuit testimonial video Employees from Intuit share their experiences in taking an HBS Online course and the impact the course had on their strategic thinking...
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- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
happiness. We conducted a number of studies—from national surveys to a field study in which we examined how the manner in which employees at a Boston-based company spent a profit-sharing bonus impacted their long-term happiness—in which...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
building and launching satellites. But one thing I’ve been interested in is, have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will fund the big, expensive, life-changing, pathbreaking technologies? + ONLINE...
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April White