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  • August 2023
  • Article

Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

By: Tom Nicholas
The influential Whitehall studies found that top-ranking civil servants in Britain experienced lower mortality than civil servants below them in the organizational hierarchy due to differential exposure to workplace stress. I test for a Whitehall effect in the United... View Details
Keywords: Mortality; Status; Working Conditions; Rank and Position; Welfare; Well-being; Health
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Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore
High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management
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    Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

    High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
    • 03 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 3

      PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • Blog Post

    MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

    its desirability to customers, and its economic viability.” Is Harvard an incubator of entrepreneurship? “Harvard ranks among the world’s top university incubators of entrepreneurship. SEAS trained Bill Gates; Mark Zuckerberg; Dennis... View Details
    • 03 Apr 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

    Keywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine
    • 2007
    • Book

    From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

    By: Rakesh Khurana
    Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
    Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
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    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Blog Post

    There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS

    train to meet her husband who had locked in a job in the automotive industry. She eventually was subjected to domestic abuse and did one of bravest acts a Black woman in the 1950s with six children could do: she left. As a... View Details
    • March–April 2019
    • Article

    The Future of Leadership Development

    By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu
    The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that... View Details
    Keywords: Talent Management; Executive Education; Leadership Development; Business Education; Management Skills; Learning; Online Technology
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    • 28 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

    Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School joined together in teams of 5-6 students, sourced investments in high-impact startups, and conducted due diligence on the business opportunity, financial returns, and social and environmental impact. The MIINT View Details
    • March–April 2023
    • Article

    The New-Collar Workforce

    By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
    Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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    • 12 Jul 2019
    • News

    Can Apprenticeships Keep Up With The Kardashians?

    • 27 Nov 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

    Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera & Kelsey Jack

      Kym Lew Nelson

      Kym Lew Nelson joined the NOM unit of the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Lecturer in January of 2020. In July of 2020, she became a Senior Lecturer in the Negotiations unit. Prior to joining the faculty, Kym was a guest lecturer in the Negotiations class at... View Details

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      By: Peter Tufano
      Tufano is the convener for an innovative global doctoral reading group, The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS). This novel course, taught with professors from Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Texas, Imperial, NYU, Mannheim, and Oxford brings together... View Details
      • 27 Apr 2015
      • Blog Post

      2+2: Building on Business Basics at HBS

      Accepted into HBS’s 2+2 Program her senior year of college, Atima Lui spent two years working at Walmart before coming to HBS. Having majored in business as an undergraduate, Atima was eager to build upon that background and hone her... View Details
      • February 2008 (Revised February 2008)
      • Case

      University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

      By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and James Weber
      The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business offered a discipline-based, flexible MBA program to full time, evening, weekend, and executive MBA students. At a time when other MBA programs were introducing significant changes to their curricula, Chicago felt... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Higher Education; Training; Management Style; Problems and Challenges; Education Industry
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      • 11 May 2022
      • Blog Post

      MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

      This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the... View Details
      • 23 Jan 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

      Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 02 Sep 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

      bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health