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01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

March 2006; and "Aggregation, Precision, and Contracting with a Long-Horizon Agent in a Multi-Task Setting," a HBS Working Paper from April 2006. Ann Cullen: How did you get interested in this topic? Romana Autrey: Career concerns affect every industry, even... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

given similarities in culture and language. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK despite a far smaller home market,” says Porter. Academia a strength to build upon The United Kingdom’s strengths in academic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

misconduct Minor is no stranger to the topic of risk preference. Before entering academia he launched his own investment firm. He constructed lawmakers’ risk preferences using data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in academia and the classroom. Q: How did you organize the course? A: We concluded that we needed a relatively... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019

sales, podcasts, and webinars and other learning programs. Chief Information Officer Ron Chandler, with extensive experience in IT leadership, technology design, and management both in academia and in professional and financial services... View Details

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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment

To work here is an opportunity to be a part of a community that is truly passionate about what we do. We are fortunate to straddle the worlds of academia and business, so we tend to operate with a more corporate mentality than you might... View Details

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

value-based care agenda to life at MD Anderson, with hopes that it eventually will be standard operating procedure in American health care. Since joining the HBS faculty part-time, Feeley has commuted between Boston and Houston every other week, serving as a liaison... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

help to become part of the commercial food system. In this book, Ray Goldberg interviews the change makers of today's food system: leaders and constructive critics in government, private industry, nonprofits, and academia who provide a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

in 1968. Since her appointment to the faculty in 1971, she has been a driving force in recruiting women for prominent roles at HBS and has inspired legions of MBAs to pursue careers as health-care entrepreneurs and managers. As a pioneer in opening new options for... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of business, government, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

process of taking an innovation from academia to the marketplace when he joined the new venture in 2008, even if the cement industry itself was a departure for him. That turn, taken in the later phase of his career, has resulted in an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

must change the way it supports basic and applied scientific research to promote the broad collaboration with business and academia needed to tackle society's big problems. Second, corporate management practices and governance structures... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA

community and its resources will equip me with additional tools in pursuit of broadening the visibility of diverse talent in academia and the financial services industry.” Paola Martorell (MBA 2026) During her career, Paola worked to... View Details

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

paths. Clif Darden worked in economic development in the United States and Tanzania before returning to HBS to earn his DBA in 1982. His career in academia culminated in a tenured professorship in organizational theory and management at... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in 1909, he earned a scholarship... View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

doing. The goal is not to turn around quick policy ideas, but to generate important and long-lasting research. Often, though, good policy ideas turn out to be a happy by-product.” Those kinds of contributions can help ensure that academic research on policy advances... View Details