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- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
to enlarge The researchers recruited a separate panel of 60 seasoned angel investors to watch the videos and code them across several measures, including physical attractiveness—rating the entrepreneurs on a scale of 1 (very unattractive)... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
self-conscious focus on increasing safety and effectiveness—which compelled workers to adopt a set of work practices that supported deep and ongoing learning—had the secondary consequence of disrupting and revising the hyper-masculine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
law is alive and well in cyberspace and that governments are fully prepared to enforce it. And finally, although we haven't seen these stories yet, I imagine that there will soon be a lot more interest in preventing possible terrorists from using encryption View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
implemented curriculum changes with similar leadership, global, and integrative goals, Moon observed, "If anyone can crack the code to get this right, it's HBS." Brett Gibson and Justine Lelchuk, HBS SA Co-Presidents, assisted in... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
insurance, the US economy is doomed. More generally, at all levels, government has given away the future to buy votes in the present—a truly bipartisan effort over decades. On the revenue side, we will need to increase taxes, broaden the tax base, and reform the tax... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
whole thing (shout out to Thales Teixeira!), which has been incredibly helpful in figuring out our business model and buying advertisements. Until very recently, we were the ones designing all of our ads, buying all of our search terms, and View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
correctly analyzed this as the issue, noting that Damore’s document “crosses the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” This violated Google’s code of conduct, thereby triggering his termination. In his manifesto,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
for FY2019. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-433 Note on Blockchain and Bitcoin, 2017 Blockchain was a self-sustaining, peer-to-peer ledger technology with an integrated set of computer View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
not, multinational brands have taken up the mantle of responsibility, establishing codes of conduct that their suppliers are—theoretically at least—obligated to adhere to. Often, the brands also monitor their suppliers’ performance with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
about these ideas. We gathered thirty years of U.S. patent data and wrote up some code that identifies the inventors and links them to each other for three million patents and two million inventors. Our first cut was to look at the... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
individuals at global companies around standards promulgated in the most prominent international ethical codes and (2) the level of adherence of companies to those standards. Second, with my colleague Andrew Molinsky, I am in the thick of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
they make decisions with their gut feel. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs” She coded all of the interviews to see what investors really look for and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards Authors:Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE OF INDUSTRY Harvard Business School... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
benefited from my own scarce resources. I didn’t know how the book was supposed to be structured, but I did know I wanted the readers to become engaged in the process. I didn’t think QR codes were so revolutionary, but my editor said it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
replicated elsewhere. Noting that other business schools have already implemented curriculum changes with similar leadership, global, and integrative goals, Moon observed, “If anyone can crack the code to get this right, it’s HBS.” —Roger... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
mortgage originations from 2012 to 2018 for loan performance data. They further parsed findings using US Census data and ZIP codes to match loan officers, mortgages, specific lenders, and applicants. The researchers matched first and last... View Details