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Jennifer Abel
Jennifer Abel is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Broadly, her research interests include trust formation and conflict management. She received a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jennifer Walsh
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Jennifer Zou
I am a fourth year doctoral candidate in the Business Economics program. My research interests are primarily in industrial organization and innovation, with a particular focus on the economics of artificial intelligence/machine learning and digital technology markets. I received a S.B. in Mathematics with Computer Science and S.B. in Economics from MIT.
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization focused on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Zoë Cullen (photo by Russ Campbell) Zoë Cullen (photo by Russ Campbell) Wage transparency is a concept that is most often rallied against by employers, while employees presume it will benefit them by equalizing wages and reducing the employer’s bargaining power. But... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
Old Boys team photo with the Keio Rugby Club (photos courtesy HBS Rugby club) John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) was in his first year at Harvard Business School when he heard a New Zealander trying to recruit new students for the rugby club. The hook? A cheap spring-break trip... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts. Interventions have shown little... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the power of business is to transform... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2018
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Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) We all wait in lines—at the grocery store, the bank, or a ticket booth, or on hold to speak to a customer service rep about your cable bill. “By one estimate, Americans spend 37 billion hours... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Making ethical and moral decisions in business can be murky and is difficult to teach in the vacuum of a business school classroom, argues Associate Professor Eugene Soltes in his recent... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch
The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000 in prize money and in-kind... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
Scott Duke Kominers (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Scott Duke Kominers (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Income inequality over multiple generations is not just the result of wealthy families passing down money—it’s how those families spend their money, namely on their... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
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China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him more than a quarter of a century... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2018
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Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private and public organizations: hiring... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009) ran past the Anderson Memorial Bridge every morning and took note of the sentiments affixed to its parapet: May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian defense giant Cobham Aviation... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
While his friends have retired, 79-year-old Merle Bushkin (AB 1956, MBA 1960), a laid-back guy with the energy of a man half his age, is rocketing full speed into the challenges of entrepreneurship—launching a startup company offering a simple product that he says can... View Details
- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of Jhunjhunu. More than 100,000 young... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose project gets funded, which study is published, or who... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Assistant Professor Rembrand Koning (photo by Russ Campbell) Assistant Professor Rembrand Koning (photo by Russ Campbell) Innovative ideas often come from brainstorming with peers—but does who you brainstorm with matter? Yes, say Assistant Professor Rembrand Koning and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers