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Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice and Bias; Competency and Skills; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions
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Sending a Message: An Empirical Assessment of Responses to Punitive and Non-punitive Compliance Messaging Strategies

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel, Elizabeth A. Keenan and Melissa Ouellet
Regulators operate in an increasingly hostile political environment. The U.S. Supreme Court is ramping up efforts to curtail the authority of administrative agencies. The second election of Donald Trump to the presidency has unleashed a torrent of anti-regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Compliance; Compliance Programs; Compliance Policies; Regulatory Enforcement; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Policy; Government Experimentation; Governance Compliance; Government Administration; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Construction Industry; Public Administration Industry; California; United States
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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Government and Politics; Investment; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; Rank and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; India
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  • 19 Aug 2021
  • News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration

working together. Each school has different operating models and roadblocks as well as levers and entry points. Each school is striving for more integration of climate content into the core. Each school is... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

recruiting activities because there are tons of ways to engage virtually. HBS resume books, the job board, and virtual events are great ways to connect with students. We encourage you to access the tools... View Details
Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship
  • Web

AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

scaling growth and job creation. Winning companies will go public and become icons known around the world. Governments will benefit from real-time research on leveraged policy... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of candor, humility, and trust in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

were lofty, she found her ideal internship through an ordinary process: searching the HBS job portal. “I had been working with a career coach to look for a mission-focused health-related startup,” Yoonjin explains. “At BCG, my clients... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Technology
  • Article

Does the Scope of the Sell-Side Analyst Industry Matter? An Examination of Bias, Accuracy, and Information Content of Analyst Reports

By: Kenneth Merkley, Roni Michaely and Joseph Pacelli
We examine changes in the scope of the sell-side analyst industry and whether these changes impact information dissemination and the quality of analysts’ reports. Our findings suggest that changes in the number of analysts covering an industry impact analyst... View Details
Keywords: Analyst Industry; Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Reports; Finance; Analysis; Information; Reports; Quality; Financial Services Industry
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Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
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  • May 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Teaching Note

BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Olivia Hull
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-020. View Details
Keywords: Health Care Services; Entrepreneurs; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Health Care Industry; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Management; Franchising; Family-owned Business; Home Health Care; Managing Growth; Management Styles; Organizational Development; Talent Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Business Startups; Family Business; Small Business; Talent And Talent Management; Governing And Advisory Boards; Health Care And Treatment; Human Capital; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business Or Company Management; Growth And Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, And Techniques; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Brands And Branding; Marketing Strategy; Strategy; Health Industry
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  • May 23, 2011
  • Article

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
To determine the extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, researchers Robert Eccles and George Serafeim analyzed data involving over 2,000 companies in 23 countries. One result: a ranking of countries... View Details
Keywords: Change; Society; Corporate Disclosure; Natural Environment; Rank and Position; Social Issues; Financial Statements; Behavior
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  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

task selection effect and show that it occurs due to the positive feelings individuals get from task completion. These findings provide an alternative mechanism for the workload-speedup effect from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

potential target customers including jobs and occupations, educational attainment, employment status, school enrollment, health, housing, and more. Suggested Resources United... View Details
  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 1. Survey Background In October of 2018, Harvard Business School hosted The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where... View Details
  • April 1993 (Revised June 1993)
  • Supplement

General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (D)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to be handed out after discussion of the (C) case. View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

Web Site) To position itself for the 21st century, the company is relying on the likes of Yves G. Martin (MBA '86), acting CEO of Club Med North America, and Nicolas C. Giraud (MBA '91), director of sales... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

God, Government and Outsiders: The Influence of Religious Beliefs on Depositor Behavior in an Emerging Market.

By: Ayesha K. Khan and Tarun Khanna
This paper provides evidence that religious beliefs can have a significant impact on individual financial choices. Using proprietary panel data on the distribution of bank deposits across all commercial banks in Pakistan over a 33-month period, I find that Islamic... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Commercial Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Religion; Banking Industry; Pakistan
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