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  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Silverthorne: Before we talk about your advice, I should note that most of our readers aren’t accounting PhDs. Do you think some of your tips could serve job seekers in other endeavors? Rouen: My first tip... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education
  • 12 Feb 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

With a final deal reached on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), prepare for another cacophony of protest in Congress that America is signing away jobs to other parts of the world. The naysayers will be overlooking one small fact. Even... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51190 Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism By: Nolan, Richard L. Abstract— Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden from delayed resolution of policy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

thousand large retailers, primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It basically does the supply-chain job faster and more accurately with the aid of a sophisticated information system than anyone else. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

investment reasons make the decision an important one. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507025 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) Harvard Business School Case 407-037 Tracks of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. “The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

deregulations also led to a dramatic increase in "churning" at the lower end of the size distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

a better job of making apartments appealing than the online classified site, but first they had to siphon away its customers. To do that, Chesky and Gebbia created software to hack Craigslist to extract the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. In the Quest for Gender Equality, Job Ads Are Low-hanging Fruit; an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 26 Jun 2008
  • News

The First HBS Class Notes

in 1910, it included a page of staff-written "Personal Items" about alumni, reporting job changes, addresses, and marriages. The first item — "M.B.A. '14—Hugh D. Hite is manager of the Chicago office of... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909025 Malaysia Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-024 In the first six weeks on the job, the new CEO of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has developed an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

income was $6 a month, only about 15% of the population was literate, there were deep religious and ethnic differences, and more than a dozen national languages were spoken. But after a half a century, India had proved to be the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This is the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

potential--but not yet existing--two-sided network. Once the first side is firmly established, it proves easier to attract users to the network's other side during stage two. With the "merchant to two-sided platform" strategy, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats. The first few minutes of new employee orientation, if done right, can lead to happier and more productive workers and, ultimately, increased customer satisfaction. Unfortunately, a lot of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

perform their jobs more safely and effectively. The latter required that workers engage in mutual expressions of vulnerability: they acknowledged their physical limitations, learned from their mistakes, and attended to their own and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and fewer want characteristics than the second film. Finally, we find that as the... View Details