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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Diversity: Repugnant Market Concerns Associated with Transactional Approaches to Diversity Recruitment” (September 2023). Tsedal Neeley : Winner of the 2024 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal in the Emerging Trends/AI category for The... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In recent years Blackstone has invested in about seventy corporate and real-estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The integration of... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

known, unknown, and potential competitors. In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

fate we have to accept, Sambvani explains. Better voice technology and AI-based tools already exist, and some large organizations are deploying them in modern, innovative systems that don’t routinely confound their customers. “But most... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

borrowers are defaulting less.” Before recent interest rate hikes, American homeowners had been reaping the benefits of record home prices, cashing out amid a buying frenzy. However, data from the National Association of Realtors showed that these View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

blockchain. That’s a ledger of transactions maintained by a decentralized network of computer systems that validate and cross-validate the transactions. Stablecoins are a different type of crypto asset. They... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

2008
Working Paper

Structural Closure and Exposure: Market Reactions to Announcements of Acquisitions and Divestitures

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Nitin Nohria

This paper develops an exchange-network perspective on corporate diversification and proposes two measures of corporate scope: structural closure and structural exposure. Structural closure focuses on exchanges of goods and services inside the firm... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Transactions; Diversification; Boundaries; Valuation

Citation

Ruettgers was responsible for EMC’s focus on storage systems vs. memory boards – a move that enabled EMC to corner the storage network market and become one of the fastest growing companies in the United... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

An Wang

After receiving his Ph.D., Wang began work on a complex memory storage problem, which lead to the development of the first magnetic core memory. Building on this success, Wang went on to set up his own company focused on making business... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

of performance feedback in motivating productivity in repetitive tasks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-078.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details

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4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy | MBA

parking facilities. In addition, they allow employee and student identification for business transactions on campus and the ability to attend events that may be open only to the Harvard community, including Spring Fest, Head of the... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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James McKenney Remembered

MCKENNEY: The first information systems expert at HBS, he led its early IT efforts. HBS professor emeritus James L. McKenney,an expert in management information systems and the use of computer View Details

Keywords: Information

01 Dec 1998
News

Scott P. Mason Remembered

Scott Mason, an expert in capital markets, valuation, and financial systems and an HBS faculty member for seventeen years, died of cancer in September. He was 50 years old. "Scott was a good friend, valued colleague, and mentor to many of... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match different agents as well as possible. "Al started... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details