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07 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

New research suggests that if you break out in tears in front of supervisors or colleagues, you have a chance to recover. The key: reframe your distress as passion. Most people tend to apologize in those situations, says Elizabeth Baily... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

30 Nov 2015
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Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

need to be paid, if given the choice of where their money would go, most people donating money wouldn’t choose to contribute to the salary of the organization’s CEO,” says Elizabeth A. Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

Along with colleagues Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics, Sadun challenges this view in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Management as a Technology? They argue... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Jan 2017
News

Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?

07 Dec 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting

18 Apr 2017
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De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2023
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Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

of ESG, there are similar controversies around DEI. For example, marketing to or recruiting from a particular group—for example, members and allies of the LGBTQ community—might offend other people or cause others to feel threatened. "The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 May 2025
HBS Seminar

Ramesh Johari, Stanford

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

assumption that investors who take an interest in ESG data are more likely to integrate that data in their investment decisions. We created an index ranking based on the number of hits controlled for the total stock market capitalization... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

January–February 2023
Article

Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu and Najat Khan

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred extensive vaccine research worldwide. One crucial part of vaccine development is the phase III clinical trial that assesses the vaccine for safety and efficacy in the prevention of COVID-19. In this work, we enumerate the first... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Testing and Trials; Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Research; Pharmaceutical Industry

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South Sea Bubble | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction Links to South Sea Bubble Exhibition RESEARCH PORTAL Browse BROWSE THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE COLLECTION Explore MARKETING & FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS Essay "THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE AFTER 300 YEARS" ESSAY... View Details

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

the paper: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042673 Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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By: Ashley V. Whillans

Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted

decades—between globalized workforces and the rise of technology—that the traditional pedigree is out of date. They studied almost 5,000 executive job descriptions compiled by the executive recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates in the last 20 years. From that... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2018
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Conceptions of Ethics in the Cannabis Industry: The Case of Boston, MA

By: Kristin Sippl

Work in progress exploring the consumer demand for and conceptualizations of social, economic, and environmental ethics in the emerging cannabis industry, and the private sector’s and civil society’s response. Draws on interviews and fieldwork from Portland, OR,... View Details

Keywords: Cannabis Industry; Ethics; Demand and Consumers; Boston

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16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism after 1848 and up the present day. It shows how multinational firms have created and co-created markets and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

Across three studies, we show that gift givers mis-predict appreciation for socially responsible gifts and that their mis-predictions depend on the nature of their relationship to the recipient. Drawing on research on affective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for Authoria as he View Details

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ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)

By: Peter Tufano

ABN-AMRO, the largest bank in the Netherlands, must decide whether to take any action in regard to the poor performance of Smit Transformatoren, a Dutch transformer manufacturer. ABN-AMRO acted as lead underwriter for the IPO of Smit, and also released a favorable... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Netherlands

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