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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

truthful statements, but trying to move away from what’s being asked.” During the 2016 presidential race, Gino says, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton paltered in attempts to distort the story to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Internet Likely to Decrease Price Competition" (with M. Sarvary, Marketing Science , 1999). 1998 Sunil Gupta : Winner of the 1998 Best Paper Award from the International Journal of Research in Marketing for "Assessing Long-Term Promotional View Details

27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

sugars or vegetable oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

organizational development for ““Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration” (Fall 2019) with Jesse Shore and David Lazer. Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2020 Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students, Harvard Business... View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the forthcoming book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Booking isn’t alone. Other companies such as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

valio84sl As the National Basketball Association kicks off its regular season this week, a recent study makes a surprising discovery: Coaches favor players of their own race, giving them slightly more playing time than might be expected. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders View Details

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

November 2021
Teaching Note

Glass-Shattering Leaders

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman

Teaching Notes for HBS Case Nos. 421-070, 421-071, 421-072, 421-073, 421-074, and 421-075. View Details

Keywords: Gender Equality; Allyship; Leadership; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Power and Influence

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01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

“Early wins might help depolarize the national discourse on climate change and kickstart more investment into the transition.” He thinks there are specific opportunities for his clients and the larger... View Details

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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

HBS was a hundred years ago to what it is today and what it can be in the future. Not only can you come here because you want to be a leader who makes a difference in the world, you can make a difference at HBS itself. This can have... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 May 2024
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Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

health consequences from fossil fuel pollution. This pollution has led to an estimated 8 million deaths in 2018, and disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color given where... View Details

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My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018) - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

08 Feb 2021
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How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

wisdom, rather than my influence about their admission decision, I’m probably more useful to them after schools have made their decisions,” he notes. While Bazerman knew his actions weren’t going to resolve the broader, complicated racial... View Details