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- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
says Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS. “And even in the US, when you look at sources of early-stage capital for new entrepreneurs, it tends to be friends and family.” But making sure families will View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
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- Web
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree - 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...
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- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
Telling the truth requires transparency, something prevaricators are reluctant to embrace. Yet without knowing the truth, leaders can never reach sound solutions to problems. Even worse, lying or stretching...
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by Bill George
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
at how much they communicated. When they crunched the numbers, the team found that weak ties yielded more jobs than strong ties, but with diminishing returns as the ties got weaker. The sweet spot in networking seemed View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 1980
- Article
Consumer Impulse Purchase and Credit Card Usage: An Empirical Examination Using the Log Linear Model
By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan
Most of the work in impulse purchase behavior has investigated the association of socioeconomic variables and unplanned purchases with equivocal results. This paper examines the interrelationship between impulse purchases, credit card usage, cost of items bought, and...
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- 24 Nov 2021
- News
Great Resignation? Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration Instead
- 22 Oct 2019
- Video
The 2018-19 Blavatnik Fellows Embark on their Next Ventures
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Meg Rithmire
My research and course development focus on questions of how markets and market mechanisms interact with concentrated political power, especially in the context of authoritarian or illiberal regimes. Geographically, my expertise is in the political economy of Asia,...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino and Maryam Kouchaki
To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike...
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Networking;
Morality;
Dirtiness;
Power;
Networks;
Moral Sensibility;
Personal Development and Career;
Power and Influence
Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki. "The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-108, April 2014.
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
Assistant Professor George Serafeim, coauthor of the working paper Short-termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk, with HBS doctoral candidate Maria Loumioti and Assistant Professor Francois Brochet. "We tend View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours of meaningless idle time each week. We conducted six studies that examine the prevalence and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA
the result of a medical condition or the student has refused to cooperate with efforts by Harvard University Health Services or other clinicians to determine the cause of the behavior. The student is not...
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On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms
By: Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Rohini Pande, Erica Field and Charity Troyer Moore
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct deposit of public sector wages into their own...
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Rigol, Natalia, Simone Schaner, Rohini Pande, Erica Field, and Charity Troyer Moore. "On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms." American Economic Review 111, no. 7 (July 2021): 2342–2375.
- August 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
This case explores the role of Tom Kalil as Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. With the end of President Obama's Administration drawing near, Kalil and his team of "policy entrepreneurs" must work to...
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Innovation;
Innovation Leadership;
Government Innovation;
Talent Management;
Collaboration;
Policy-making;
Public Sector Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Public-Private Partnerships;
Ecosystems;
Science And Technology Studies;
Public Entrepreneurship;
Business And Government;
Entrepreneurship;
Government and Politics;
Leadership;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Science;
Technology;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
District of Columbia
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House." Harvard Business School Case 417-021, August 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
- 01 Aug 2018
- News
Inside the Emerging Economy With Millions of High-Paying Jobs
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The Success of Monitoring the Economy With Big Data
- 30 Nov 2016
- News
Donald Trump Is An Elite Populist
- 12 Jul 2016
- News
The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability
- Research Summary
Overview
The focus of my research is on the systems of social innovation. How small groups of individuals come up with new products and services targeting important problems; how they finance these initial efforts, and convert prototypes into viable organizational strategies;...
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(General) Management;
Social Business;
Non-profit Management;
Entrepreneur;
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
System Dynamics;
Non-profit;
Evaluation;
Impact Investing;
Venture Philanthropy;
Social Enterprise Initiative;
Advanced Leadership Initiative;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Social Enterprise;
Civil Society or Community;
System;
Financial Services Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Energy Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Service Industry