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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the U.S. economy. Second is to avoid a situation where the failure of one... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
Commencement 2012 Address Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 24 May 2012 The HBS Class of 2012, friends and family, and members of the HBS community. Good afternoon, and welcome. Class of 2012! You are the first group of MBA... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
credit went unanswered. So when Mills left SBA to come to HBS, she did the research herself. The resulting 2014 working paper found that small business was experiencing a credit crunch, particularly in lending from banks, despite creating two out of every three new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Abstract—Scholars from many disciplines have investigated self-deception, but defining self-deception and establishing its possible benefits have been a matter of heated debate—a debate impoverished by a relative lack of empirical research. Drawing on recent research,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
realized I had no idea how those interests translated into a career path. At least, not yet.The first two months of RC (first) year were a blur. I had never really thought about my career so holistically before—I studied biomedical... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
2000). Easterly, Michael. “Your Job Is Your Credit: Creating a Market for Loans to Salaried Employees in New York City, 1885–1920." Unpub. PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angelos, 2008. Full text available as a networked... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
do.” Never Say Never Van Caldenborgh’s own enjoyment of art began early. “When I was a boy, I bought something that could hang in my room,” he recalls. “When I was first married, I would bring home something that was the right size to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
special. My competitive nature led me to contact a local dog club about showing her in competition, and one thing led to another. For about a year I went almost every weekend to a dog show with Anni and served as kennel help and doer of odd View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
in the developing world, Jeffrey Ballinger was the first to criticize Nike's labor policies in Asia. When he arrived in Indonesia in 1988, the country's daily minimum wage was about $0.86. By 1997, it had tripled to just over two dollars.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
regard, Aiken feels that women often face a different challenge than men because they are too often "put into staff positions rather than line management jobs in order to 'protect their success,'" which, she adds,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
pondering the best way to spend the summer between my first and second years, I decided early-on that I wanted to see what life was like with a .gov email address. Further, I wanted to find a job that would... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
thus far has been my section retreat during the first semester (shout-out to Section B!). Having a weekend to get to know 90+ new friends outside the classroom made me feel more at home at HBS. Before attending HBS, every student I talked... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
Subverting Career Trajectories
alternatives out there for us—otherwise we wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here in the first place. The toughest part of HBS for me has been reminding myself that although the MBA feels like a detour in the short-term, in the... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
you put together. The basic motivating pressures for change inside the boardroom, I think, should be, "How do we do a better job? And to do a better job we've got to use the limited time we have efficiently, and we've got to get the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
said. But both statements presented problems: First, she’d been told earlier that she was having a girl and, after weeks of fantasizing, had even picked out a name. Oishi suddenly remembered a moment during the first procedure when the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
did you draw on your background in psychoanalysis to approach contemporary characters and issues in leadership? Abraham Zaleznik: When I wrote my first book on the job of the foreman (1950), an observation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
clubs get exclusive access to our corporate sponsors - top investment banks, consulting firms, technology companies, and general management companies - more than one week early. This year, we hosted our first ever virtual Diversity Career... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
behavioral issues. Say you work at an insurance agency. Your job is to devise protection, and you've discovered, as many insurers do, that catastrophic reinsurance is expensive. Meanwhile, your boss has been hounding you for months to... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
entity and everyone’s journey is different. Right at the beginning, however, I got my first look at the tangible impact to people’s lives that made my experience truly unforgettable. It was only my second week as a Naval officer when I... View Details