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- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
these messages as a way to trap and weed out minorities that do apply. “I don’t think it’s intended to be a setup,” she says. “These organizations are not necessarily all talk when they say they’re pro-diversity. Maybe the diversity values are there, but they just...
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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
translated from multiple Indian languages into English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. Is an ages-old turmeric remedy for wounds patentable?Photo: iStockPhoto Choudhury and Khanna aimed to find out...
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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
upbringing set the course for his eventually attending HBS. His father, an Italian-born engineering-trained executive with Lockheed Martin who travels one-third of the time, met Amadio’s mother, an American, when he enrolled in an English class in a View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen. 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 Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
investors and those in the private sector would understand. “For those of us with a nonprofit background, we need to translate the things we have done when talking with companies who are hiring for roles in the private sector,” Mbanusi...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name...
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Julia Hanna
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
with contracts, if any agent’s preferences are not substitutable, then the existence of a stable outcome cannot be guaranteed. In many-to-many matching with contracts, a new market design issue arises: the design of the contract language...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
influences. This discourse hence suggested that this art had so far been aesthetically misjudged, therefore implying that it had also been economically undervalued. Saffronart and the other auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams) were able to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship and venture capital, the actions of any one group are likely to have positive spillovers—or, in the language of economics, "externalities"—for their peers. It is in these types of settings that the government...
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- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
my Vietnamese heritage, and it’s how I live my life. Jashin Lin (MBA 2023) I take great pride in my Asian identity and I aim to embody our culture’s values of dedication, grit, and collectivism. We believe that actions speak louder than words. For me, these values...
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and statistical reports. Select English at the top of the screen to view the site in English. Hong Kong Stock Exchange /citations/hong-kong-stock-exchange Latest news, listed companies, rules and regulations, and statistics. Chinese versionis available. However the...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
contracts filled three floors. Next, she restarted her English language school for international students, a side of the business that faltered after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China and Beijing-mandated withdrawal of all...
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- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
to realize that most people feel like outsiders - feel like they are different. It's a beautiful thing and worth celebrating. During LHM, we are reminded that the Latinx experience is incredibly diverse. We have different mother tongues. Sometimes we speak the same...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
served in combat, many people would come back and say, “I’ve got all these great skills. I don’t know how to translate them into a job.” The interesting situation there is, we had people that were highly skilled and highly trained in many...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
process. The paper explores how entrepreneurs and firms translated societal values into brands, globalized them, and changed societal perceptions of beauty as a result. It also shows the limitations of the homogenization achieved by firms...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China....
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
better accomplished in a face-to-face interaction, versus an individual experience? I think the second thing I would say, the technology and the data underlying the technology is evolving. If you think about language learning—let’s use...
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