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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
grades in school. Thomas Yao - MBA ‘19 “You’re pretty good for an Asian kid!” As a Chinese boy growing up in Germany, I learned to deal with acts of everyday racism. I had always been a passionate soccer player and assumed that at some... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can also coexist and the prevalence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
US courts due to its status as a territory. In 2016, the US Congress had intervened, passing the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (Promesa), which established an eight-member Oversight Board to manage the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
School Note 812-016 Technology transfer from U.S. universities to industry has increased dramatically in the last 25 years. The case reviews the history of technology transfer with particular emphasis on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the recipient would accept a low price in exchange for a side payment and selected larger numbers as their best guess of the likely proportion of recipients acting "unfairly." The results favor the hypothesis that people avoid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia "science of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
appropriate systemic connections to effectively distribute solutions. Thus, these challenges cannot be dealt with by one profession or institution acting alone; indeed, effective action most often occurs at the intersections of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61 interviews and highlights some of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
and breastfeeding – this is no surprise. That said, the student mother community at HBS is growing every year. In 2020 almost every section could have one mother in the mix, to add a unique perspective to case discussions and to act as a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
The way I wanted to act and live my life and things like that. DM: Jeff, I want to talk about one of the prominent initiatives that you get into in the book and that's Ecomagination. 'Cause it was really interesting to read about the sort... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
state level. In fact, 19 out of 20 ballot initiatives that we tracked on these issues passed in 2018. And in March the House actually voted 234 to 193 in support of the For the People Act of 2019, a comprehensive reform package. A... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
And that's why he kicked me off the helicopter, because he was acting out what he truly, truly believed. And the second thing he taught me was, if you're going to ask people to do very dangerous and significant things that come at a cost,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Podolny: “As organizations have become flatter, those running them are looking for leaders who can see opportunities and address problems that cut across functional boundaries.” Even managers in large organizations have to think and act... View Details
- 13 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
done.” Effective communication must be accompanied with efficiencies in structure. “We have to operate more like a private company in which different departments have their own authority to act without running every decision up the chain... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
possessed a commodity that a creditor wanted. 9 6 Quoted in Stewart Hall Holbrook, Machines of Plenty; Pioneering in American Agriculture (New York: Macmillan, 1955), 36. 7 Joseph Albert Ernst, Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775: A Study in the Currency View Details
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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA
patterns (decibel intensity and rhythm). Applied as an emergency-alarm for a school for the hearing-impaired, the system allows hearing-impaired students to act quickly in a hazardous event. The experience allowed me to meet the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
following technologies: Miniproteins that can penetrate cells and act on targets that were previously considered "undruggable." The application of unique genetic and biochemical methods to develop new antibiotics targeting the outer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (A): Revenues Harvard Business School Note 307-069 Describes the revenue structure of U.S. public education. Covers funding by federal, state, and local governments. Examines in detail two federal education laws: the Elementary and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne