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15 Mar 2017
Blog Post

An Average Day at HBS

advantage of this while you are here. Club events: these events can range from social to professional and include speaker series, conferences, and various recruiting prep. Recruiting/Networking: obviously this will vary depending on the time of year and where you are... View Details

26 Jul 2023

Exploring HBS from a Latin American Perspective

Join us for a virtual session designed for prospective students from Latin America as we discuss the opportunities and experiences awaiting you at Harvard Business School. The event will include a panel of current students and recent alumni who will candidly share... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

and the 30% Club steering committee, and as an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance. Who Should Attend Accelerating Climate Solutions is intended for alumni business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs who lead organizations or otherwise have a strong professional or... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

& Advertising Club Rob Self “I started my career in auto,” Rob says, “because it’s simultaneously something that impacts just about every person in the world while being a huge contributor to carbon emissions. I wanted to help people... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Sessions on the technologies that will define the next decade Small-group discussions built to provide intimate support on personal challenges Programming addressing the unique challenges facing underrepresented founders For additional... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

vast bulk dating from 1400 to 1600. The collection sheds light on the business and personal activities of six generations of one branch of Florence’s renowned Medici family, whose wealth was derived originally from the wool trade. They... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

personalized oncology care. They have collectively raised more than $500M in funding and an additional $244M from an IPO in June 2020. The fellowship is guided by Peter Barrett, executive fellow, and a Key Advisory Board of 13 seasoned... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2007-2009. They find evidence that suggests that fund managers’ personal experiences were highly determinate of both the quantity and quality of these risky assets held prior to the crisis. See Sergey’s other research work here , Samuel’s... View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

Magazine, “Sales Managers Must Manage” “A micromanager’s growth is bounded by what they can personally get involved in,” Cespedes says. “Managing is about leveraging not only what you do, but how you get other people to do things. If you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

substantially when the managers and lawyers work as partners both to craft the objectives and to devise the means of accomplishing them. Fifth, every firm should have a general counsel or chief legal officer—one person either in-house or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

Danielle Abstract—Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

maintaining a personal balance and staying grounded can the CEO achieve the perspective required to make decisions in the interest of the company and its long-term prosperity. View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

go wrong,’ then you're more likely to hear about them,” she says. “But if you're framing them as failures and screw-ups, you're less likely to hear about them, because everybody knows, if you're the person associated with screw-ups, you... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

often take it as a sign of competence and future success. As a result, we offer that person support,” says Jachimowicz, who co-authored the article with Christopher To of Northwestern University, Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

from one of the three major credit reporting agencies over several years. This offered an in-depth look at borrowers that either used a fintech company or a bank to obtain a personal loan. (A personal loan... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

03 Jun 2014
First Look

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Publications August 2013 University of Chicago Press Innovation Policy and the Economy By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Innovation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2021
Article

Last Place Aversion in Queues

By: Ryan W. Buell

This paper documents the effects of last place aversion in queues and its implications for customer experiences and behaviors as well as for operating performance. An observational analysis of customers queuing at a grocery store, and four online studies in which... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Queues; Reference Effects; Last Place Aversion; Transparency; Customers; Behavior; Satisfaction; Service Operations

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The Artful Dodger: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way

By: Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton

What happens when speakers try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In 4 studies, we show that listeners can fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar-but objectively incorrect-questions (the "artful dodge"), a... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Goals and Objectives