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04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

ability to collect and analyze more data more quickly, decision-making and problem-solving have become increasingly complex. Many people look to technology to solve modern problems, but the more technology advances, the more human... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

"millions of people living and working in space." Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has laid out plans to build a city of a million people on Mars within the next century. Both Neil deGrasse Tyson and Peter Diamandis have been given... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

a co-founder as much as a life partner and that the same elements that make a marriage successful are those that make a co-founder relationship successful. Both founders also followed traditional career paths after HBS, which contradicted the pressure to have our View Details

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

lines. By sharing insights and fostering connections, attendees left inspired and united in their shared commitment to transforming organizational practices and shaping a collective future for women’s leadership. Read more . Select recordings from the Summit are... View Details

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

can amplify bias. Some companies try to address the issue by making sure that their algorithms don’t use data on protected characteristics such as race or gender. Yet, eliminating factors like race from an algorithm doesn’t address the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

(MBA 2022) and Christopher Edward Dee (MD 2021). Patrick's research focuses on utilizing real-world behavioral data from smartphones to characterize patient quality of life and to develop adaptive interventions using reinforcement... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Government and the International Economy Pakistan at 75: When Will the "Nazuk Mor" End? Singapore: "From Third World to First" Thailand: Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, and a Green Revolution Data Science for Managers Arla Foods: Decarbonizing... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

opportunities. He graduated from Kenyon College, has one daughter, and lives in Wellesley, MA. Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998), Bluemercury Marla Malcolm Beck is the co-founder and CEO of Bluemercury Inc., a high-growth luxury beauty... View Details

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Professor of Business Administration, who coauthored the study. “Our results also suggest that a range of local businesses actually expand during periods of gentrification.” The findings are included in the new paper Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

25 Aug 2022
News

Reinventing the Future of Business

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Rapid technological changes are sweeping across our society—affecting how we do our work, how we run our businesses, and even how we live our lives. HBS has stepped forward to elevate and expand faculty... View Details

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the relative ease of becoming one. We study in the laboratory an experimental game... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Ballantyne (MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service,... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

account data linking small businesses to their owner households, we examine how business owners’ consumption responded to changes in business revenues during the COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the National Emergency,... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

And she of course would get upset because I was attacking her for giving me good advice. I went to these researchers, and I asked them, “what's going on here?” And they said, well, look, here's what we've learned: we're living through... View Details

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Generative AI - Alumni

positions that I’ve held. The last paragraph should focus on personal interests and community involvement. Indicators: Separating inputs can help GPT understand the prompt better. This is required when you want GPT to pull data that you... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

discussions that make the case method such a powerful learning experience. In a related step, for the first time this year, we are offering an RC course called Data Science for Managers to help students, as general managers, use View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2023
News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and other leaders around the world. “I’m trying to understand the phenomenon by speaking with people on the ground,” he says. “This is deep, granular field research. I’m gaining an understanding that would be... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

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