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HBS - The year in Review
2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive The Year in Review The 2020–21 fiscal year was one of innovation and adaptation. While the pandemic disrupted lives and activities around the world, Harvard Business School... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate particularly during the Global... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
not see their role ‘as an enabler of direct public participation in decision-making through formats such as deliberative meetings, and do not believe there are personal benefits for investing in these activities.’ And yet if society is to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
investors become too passive, we might see inefficiencies at the corporate decision-making level kicking in.” The question for today, he says, is whether the pendulum has shifted too far toward passive investing in a way that hurts the... View Details
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Talia Gillis
I now find myself in an unusual and exciting situation in which I am concurrently a Business Economics doctoral student at HBS and a student in the Doctoral of Juridical Science program at Harvard Law School. Research Interests I study consumer View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
cannot ensure good behavior. Nor can it guarantee the good judgment and sound decision-making that we so desperately need from today’s financial and other business institutions. For that, we need business... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
and integrates all of these advances in technology that will impact how individuals save, how they invest, and how they interact with all aspects of their finances. "Keep your ear to the ground and your eyes open on fintech." Now, importantly, it’s not just how View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality certification institutions, View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Gordon Donaldson Remembered
mentor, researcher, and administrator. In 1995, the MBA Class of 1963 established a professorship in his honor. “Gordon was an intellectual leader at the School for many years,” said HBS professor Jay Lorsch. “He had a deep understanding of and interest in corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our brains, Polli knew that... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Editor's Note: As an institution charged with fighting global poverty, the World Bank has found itself on the firing line of late. Critics cite a persistent lack of transparency and failure to include local insights in decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
In the run-up to the global financial crisis, credit rating agencies gave high marks to such risky financial vehicles as collateralized debt obligations, which few people understood. It has been argued that... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advancing the cause of women’s leadership in business
world. Women are getting more management opportunities, says Lang. Still, significant progress needs to come in the boardroom and the C-Suite, where women continue to lag in key agenda-setting, decision-making roles. “Companies with more... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
always have to attract other resource providers—co-founders and non-founding hires on the human resources side, investors on the financial resources side—to the venture. To attract them, the founder has to give up things of value, most... View Details
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Isaac Robinson | MBA
decision making more efficient. Professional goals: In the short term I hope to learn more about how collective decision-making is done, whether that be through votes in local government, through tokens in a DAO, or through prices in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
distinctiveness of Islam is important, Americans can still find points of connection in such settings, HBS professor emeritus Samuel Hayes told an HBS audience. "Islam is a different culture, but the Western influence is very strong because the current generation of... View Details
- Profile
Fred Smith
When we make decisions, we have to consider a diverse student body and confront a wide variety of issues. It's a great laboratory for me to test my decision-making skills." During January break, Fred joined the China/Vietnam... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
layoffs, though, only one person among the six panelists had retreated to a traditional consultancy in 2001. The rest—who started everything from a women-centric financial services group to a natural products company that grew from a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace