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- 02 Feb 2015
- News
Rebranding Infosys
- Research Summary
Book Chapter on Insurance Market in Brazil (with Marcelo de Paiva Abreu):
Little is known about the Brazilian insurance market, especially in the period before 1913. I am currently working on a book chapter for SwissRe (co-authored with prof. Marcelo de Paiva Abreu) that will hopefully fill in this gap in the literature.
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
incremental and major innovation. Recall prevention and remediation efforts are thus more important than previously suggested, due to significant competitor responses. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
solely on the Gini, we would treat places like Teton and Monroe County the same. But that may not be the right thing to do. "Reducing inequality can be achieved by both reducing the difference between low-income and medium-to-high-income earners and by closing the...
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- 29 Dec 2019
- News
Microfinance Spurs Sustained Growth—but Not for Everyone
- 26 Oct 2014
- News
Efforts to regulate CEO pay gain traction
- 10 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw
deep engineering knowledge with minimal regard for business requirements. As an engineer who loves working with people even more than circuit boards, I saw an opportunity to bridge these gaps and help others...
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- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
domains. Studies have found that viewing photos of famous female leaders or reading about women in their intended career field empowered women to: Give longer, better speeches that are equal in length to those of male peers. Eliminate gender View Details
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by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 18 Feb 2021
- Video
Accept Your Broken Pieces to Make a Difference
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
education and training have too often reinforced barriers between working and learning, rather than bridging the worlds of education and employment. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the country’s fundamental approach to human...
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by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
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Executive Compensation
Professor Meulbroek is investigating the gap between what equity-linked compensation costs the firm and what it is worth to managers. This gap arises because such compensation prevents managers from fully diversifying their holdings, so managers must bear firm-specific...
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- 07 Apr 2020
- Video
Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk in Long-Term Investments
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
Johann Farhat (MBA 2025) holds a Civil Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. After graduating, he spent three years in management consulting at Strategy& in Dubai before moving to Madrid to work at Amazon for...
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- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
same race” Extrapolating from his research, Zhang says it’s not enough to put together diverse teams in order to reduce bias. Regularly working with people of other races does not guarantee that managers will treat those who look...
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Edward McFowland III
Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.
Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions
positive work culture, and a healthy work-life balance. “When we think about racial gaps in the United States, we tend to mostly measure relative income levels.” At a time when many companies are looking to...
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by Michael Blanding
- February 2024
- Article
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials
By: Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical
trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is
more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it...
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Racial Disparity;
Health Testing and Trials;
Race;
Equality and Inequality;
Innovation and Invention;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Alsan, Marcella, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Heidi L. Williams. "Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 1 (February 2024): 575–635.
- 12 Jul 2012
- News