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Loeb House | About
Another initiative dear to both John and Frances Loeb’s hearts was the Loeb Fellowship program at the Graduate School of Design. This prestigious, one year fellowship program has for five decades has offered emerging leaders in the field... View Details
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
equates to roughly 60 percent of the total US workforce. Zhang tracked acquired firms for 10 years, from five years before they were purchased through the five years afterward. He found that companies whose... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
governments play a role? A: IP addresses are given out by five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). In North America, our RIR is the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). RIRs are private nonprofits, not a government agency, and... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
papers or by insured foreign denominated deposits which are then swapped in the FX market. A shock that forces these banks to switch from commercial papers to deposits can have large consequences on the covered interest rate parity... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
raised potential challenges to the dominance of leading firms. Our research tells a fascinating story of an industry that has proved remarkably resilient in resolving economic and regulatory challenges. It provides practitioners and scholars with a deeper understanding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Peter Gumulia
leadership muscle. He turned to HBS, “not necessarily to shift careers, but to make room for personal and professional exploration. I had a busy five to six years in which I didn’t have the head space to step back and ask myself: What... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
of innovation.” Crisp grew up on Long Island, earned a BA at Yale University, and served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force before coming to HBS. Having earned his pilot’s license at the age of 14, he was excited to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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What You Can Support - Alumni
as a force for good by accelerating research, amplifying insights, and convening scholars and practitioners on today’s societal challenges and opportunities. Community and Culture HBS is fostering a community where students, faculty, and... View Details
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
clocked 0.15 percent more hours. But the employees’ extra effort diminished as the difference in rank between employee and manager widened. In some cases, “We were looking at how employees responded to managers who were five promotions... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What we found is counterintuitive,” says Rigol, noting that traditional economic models assume that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Bridging Business and Engineering
in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) To build on the technology skills he acquired in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) came to Boston to pursue an AB in engineering at Harvard College, but... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
the hallmark of the case method. In the overcapacity classroom, Moss draws from the students some of the other issues that face the young country in the critical period. Students forced by lack of space during the “shopping period” to sit... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
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Bridgette Slater
novels that inspired them. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My grandmother, a determined Black woman full of compassion and charisma. She is a force of nature, who went back to school to pursue her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
the gang symbology that’s so visible to potential employers, so provocative to other gang members, and such a strong reminder of one’s troubled past,” says Henry H. (“Kurt”) Timken II (MBA 1992). A police detective and anti-gang specialist, Timken is the driving View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
be classified into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Each of the five segments has its own behavioral and demographic characteristics, with varying... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
overwhelming. In five days, we had more than 250,000 pounds. We had to go back on the radio and appeal to people to stop sending checks because we had no way to even process it. And it was a moment of a deep connection with humanity for... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Chacko says, is the iTunes of fonts. And as with Apple, Monotype’s decision to embrace this model is changing the way users discover, prototype, and manage fonts. Monotype is expanding globally, adding to its range of typefaces and to its sales View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
busyness, worrying, and blaming. "By reading [the book] they have already begun the intervention," he says. "They begin to entertain having a different type of conversation." The seed of his book, which DeLong worked on for View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard