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- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
Zealand, Australia, and Chile, and approximately 400,000 acres of prime farmland in major agricultural regions of North America and Australia. As a responsible steward of agricultural and forest holdings, and a producer of sustainable food and fiber, we’re committed to... View Details
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
of remote work. More education and awareness are needed so that individuals are conscious of what factors are skewing their evaluation of “ professionalism ” or “culture fit" versus focusing on the pertinent qualifications and skills that... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
for employees is different from what delivers the most value for the business? Roche: Microsoft conducted an internal survey where they asked employees how they felt about working remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
conduct an empirical investigation on the impact of pooling tasks and resources on throughput times in a discretionary work setting. We use an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data (N = 234,334) from 2007 to 2010 to test our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
described, along with efforts to professionalize sourcing/pricing and product management functions. The case closes with questions about how Chegg should respond to the pending transition from printed textbooks to electronic textbooks.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
focusing on four principles: health systems improvement, HIV prevention and care, accompaniment, and social and economic support. By January 2007, the Rwinkwavu site had conducted 67,137 HIV tests and provided antiretroviral therapy to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
could do more for communities when they close a plant or conduct a large layoff. “Many sectors, such as transportation, mining, chemicals, and heavy manufacturing, would do well to engage in community development,” he declares. “I believe... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social auditors" to assess factory conditions, little had been known about the accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits conducted at nearly 6,000 suppliers around the world. We found that audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our analysis in the context of an inventory stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that title in the firm’s then-13-year history. Even today, according to... View Details
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
funds-available basis. The Program is jointly administered by the MBA Financial Aid Office and HBS Career & Professional Development. Determinations made by the School and the Selection Committee are final. The School and the Selection... View Details
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
to deliver electrical shocks to innocent people—remind yourself that most people, just like us, with an equal commitment to decency, succumbed in this situation. It’s a lesson you should keep in mind, in your professional and personal... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether family and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne