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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
opportunities for both education and networking. "We wanted the experience to be informative and empowering," he says. "As HBS graduates, we can act individually and collectively as a resource for our community and have a tremendous View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- Web
Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog
mechanisms by which the organization creates value Course Content and Organization The course takes an interdisciplinary perspective overall and draws heavily from behavioral economics, the field that combines insights from View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
South Africa, with its rich mineral resources, strong economy, and recently lifted trade barriers, is playing a critical role in helping sub-Saharan Africa boost its economic status. The evolution of this important country, current reform... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
panels on the affirmative action debate, the potential for technology to strengthen the African-American community, entrepreneurship and economic development, and careers in the venture-capital and private-equity arenas. Frank Savage,... View Details
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
leadership roles in a quickly changing economic environment. Planned speakers include Tom Jones, chairman and CEO of Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Bank Group; Lloyd Trotter, president and CEO of GE Industrial... View Details
- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
various forms of potentially unethical behavior. These include greed, unreasonable amounts of leverage, subtle forms of corruption (such as ratings agencies that appear to have had a conflict of interest), complex financial instruments that no one really understood,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Post-Grad Ponderings
stop: Tokyo, to work for a hands-on private equity firm. Short term: “Masayuki Kato (MBA 2014) and I are getting married the day after commencement so we will have a huge gathering!” Ian Tomb, PhD, Business Economics What got you through... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables
by Susan Young For some people, the words "new economy" describe the advent of a revolutionary economic order based on technology-related innovation, entrepreneurial management, and information-driven enterprise. Others question the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
How do major technologies deploy and spread? Shane Greenstein will use illustrations from his new book, How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a new Network, to deconstruct Internet exceptionalism, the prevalent idea that the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong discontinuities in angel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School
leadership at HBS. Read the essay Andrew F. Brimmer "I do feel that the economic plight of blacks is a serious matter. So I bring the same economist's tool kit to that subject as other economists bring to examine other national View Details
- Student-Profile
Ximena Garcia-Rada
developed a strong interest in behavioral economics and set her sights on business school doctoral programs where she could engage in research that would have important theoretical and practical... View Details