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HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy
Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: February 6, 2019 - February 27, 2019 View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
that mentoring relationships are less likely to form across race than among people of the same race. But the positive approach would be to look at the research and say, 'Well, even though they may be rare, let's try to understand these... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
necessity of maintaining control over high-performing team members to the importance of observation and the inevitability of change. The approach that brought Ferguson's team such success and staying View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
we’re feeling sad. To understand and appreciate friends’ differences. My actions are powerful and I am teaching her, hers are too. I speak. Being a Speech-Language Pathologist,... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns, View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity-that is, by patterns of prior foundings, of support from related markets, and of institutional activism in a given sector. Building on research on social salience View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
strongly lean toward those. Question: How important is advertising for big companies? Cohen: Advertising is a lifeblood for corporations, even though how they’re doing it changes over time. They used to use billboards and newspapers; now,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Executive MBA programs who had worked in a range of organizational settings. Overall, our analyses demonstrate that influences on the decision to speak up include both stable and situation-specific factors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Debates over the pluses and minuses of immigrant entrepreneurs on the American economy are white hot, but one thing seems stubbornly lacking from them: facts. The arguments are familiar by now. Immigrants take jobs from native-born... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
with Diego. I did a bunch of financial analysis and modeling. I also helped to put together the investor presentation and figure out how we were going to tell our story so that people could grasp the View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
his era: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Were it not for the chord his proposals struck with the people of the colonies and the action that followed, Paine’s bold ideas might have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
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women in 21 countries found that women’s gains in economic power and social influence have come at a heavy price: women feeling stressed out, time-starved, View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
for truly independent regulators is of considerable importance. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fulfills that function in the United States, but regulatory bodies abroad lack the clout of subpoena View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Experimental Social Psychology Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Reflexively Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays By: Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28
PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Shivaratri Snan bathing day on March 10. To accommodate everyone, the Indian government creates a temporary city-building roads and providing power on what is normally an empty flood plain. Senior Lecturer... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
companies have teams of economists, and lots of the smaller companies are starting to hire handfuls of them.” The list includes Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, and numerous smaller companies. Tech... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
By: Hałaburda, Hanna, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—The value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them; the fewer fax machines in use, the less important it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne