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- 22 Feb 2022
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Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a later date. “What we might actually be seeing is politicians lobbying in the interest of their own reelection chances,” she says. “We might need a bit more skepticism when a state says, ‘We have things under control.’ ” “Lobbying View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston, to discuss an... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain. Aiyer knew... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Recent HBS Alumni Events Around the World 1 Daniel Peng, Wendy Lim, and Jackie Valentine (all MBA 2017) with Derrick Hsu and Anish Nahar (MBA 2017) at the Young Alumni Networking Reception held in March at the Barbarossa Lounge in San Francisco. 2 Ben Dupont (PLDA 20,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
What intrigued you about the pay-what-you-want (PWYW) model? It’s very unusual for a firm or a seller to completely relinquish pricing power to their customers. Typically consumers encounter a price, and then they decide whether or not they want to pay that price. If... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Dec 2013
- News
Cut to the Chase
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Longtime Boston financial exec Gorham Brigham dies at 101
- 15 Oct 2014
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The Dark Side of Efficient Markets
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation of scholars with his deep insights about human View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Common. Guests included Natalie Jaresko (Harvard Kennedy School, MPP 1989), Ukraine's Minister of Finance (2014-16); Oleh Khalayim (Harvard Kennedy School, MPA 2004), Portfolio Officer at the World Bank, Vice President at Harvard Club of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
curiosity about men and women as negotiators. "In general, people believe there are gendered differences in the way men and women operate in workplace settings," says McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and chair of HBS Doctoral Programs. "But... View Details
- 23 Mar 2017
- News
Using Data to Explore Uncharted Territories
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual analytics platform that mines... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Skydeck podcast BRUNELL: Human motivation for supporting or catalyzing change only comes from within. We can’t “make” people’s behavior or “mandate” mindset. Citizens must have reason to care, want, and believe in the change agenda—and to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
plastics, appliances, NBC, much of its finance operation, and soon, it’s rumored, even the lighting division. The reason for this, according to Immelt, is what’s drawn him to Boston—the city’s leadership position in technology, medicine,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Engineering Change at Fox Television
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?
In a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview Robert Sulentic (MBA 1984), president and CEO of CBRE Group Inc. (long known as Coldwell Banker & Co.), is bullish about the real estate market, the future of brick-and-mortar retail, and the growth of entrepreneurship... View Details