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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
racial references just as much as employers who didn’t mention diversity at all in their job ads. “This is a major point of our research—that you are at an even greater risk for discrimination when applying... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
Employer Relationship Managers for support The Career & Professional Development team is here to support you in recruiting HBS talent. For questions about recruiting strategy, coming to campus, hosting virtual events, and more, reach out... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
Connecticut is nothing less than a capitulation to an emerging business reality. For GE, leafy Stamford was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San Francisco, and New York, but are willing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
they also risk having to switch provider networks, disrupting patient-physician relationships. "According to Kaiser, health insurance premiums for the average plan are expected to rise by 9 percent in 2017" These consumers will... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
credential—the challenge with that is, without further nuance, there’s risks that you have, growing underemployment on the one hand, and at the same time, even though more people are getting credentials, there’s a persistent percentage of... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
is no villain here. Poor public-policy choices have contributed to the problem, but so have the bad choices made by health plans, hospitals, and the employers who buy their services. Decades of "reform" have failed, and attempts... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, distributed governance, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the trading floor. The model offers a methodology to predict the seemingly unpredictable by using the lessons of complex mathematics and probability theory to forecast stock valuations, making it possible to successfully manage risk in... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. And handsome men fare best of all. Why Employers Favor Men Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? The answer is more subtle than expected. Simple Ways to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
a 401(k) program. Boeing threatened to move construction of the 777X jetliner to another state without the concession. Funding The Future Even so, companies are still on the hook for paying benefits to those employees who have already been promised them. As their... View Details
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the trading floor. The model offers a methodology to predict the seemingly unpredictable by using the lessons of complex mathematics and probability theory to forecast stock valuations, making it possible to successfully manage risk in... View Details
- Web
How to Post | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
generally interview in early February and make summer employment decisions by March or April. Please see the MBA Recruiting Policies and Guidelines for specific timing parameters around interviews and offer dates. Students can apply for... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
identify risks and issues, and develop the business case. The two-month recruiting process for the first cohort included reaching out to organizations such as Autism South Australia, targeting verbal individuals age 20 to 30, either with... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers