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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
members Nisha Kumar Behringer (MBA 1995) and Kris Pederson (MBA 1991). The event offered guidance on landing a corporate board seat, what skills boards look for, and the importance of persistence. Key practical insights included:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
1959, MBA 1965) worked for a year as a research associate to faculty member James Healy; she also acted as an unofficial "dean" for female students and crisscrossed the country to interview and recruit women (only six enrolled in the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces. Market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
factor for an internship's success. "It's important that people see change as their own idea," he says. "In dealing with people from another country, I try to be open-minded." Mukhtar, who was born in Nigeria, attended medical school and View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate, HBS professor Christopher A.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
individuals are prompted to consider the question "What could I do?" in place of their intuitive approach of considering "What should I do?" Together, these studies point toward a theory of moral insight and important View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
rank or status. Although some may not immediately associate Harvard Business School as an exemplar of humility, everything we do is rooted in that quality. In our classrooms, we encourage students to talk more than the faculty. Our View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
struggle with internal conflict when deciding whether to behave responsibly or indulge in impulsivity, psychologists and economists did not begin to empirically investigate this type of want/should conflict until recently. In this paper, we review and synthesize the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
University in Spring 2021. Her work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and her practice brings together painting, printmaking, and archival research. As a student at Yale University, Jackson became intrigued by Josef Albers’s work... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
kept the practices in place that helped them control what could be controlled—exercise, diet, personal habits, and routines. None of these CEOs reported increased stress in the second half of the year. Three reported a decrease, while... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
research model, we go out in the field to develop and test hypotheses about the managerial challenges identified and shared by the nine PELP districts, write cases and notes that are relevant to addressing the challenges, and then deliver... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
profits) don't generally rely on long hours. When is the last time you saw an investment banking firm, in an industry known for working its people mercilessly, near the top of the best place to work list? Consider insurer USAA, which sometimes tops the list of best... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
absorbing losses in excess of 12 percent. The scholars also run a simulation that constructs a "CDO²" by further dividing the mezzanine tranches, noting that due to the practice of subdividing large pools of residential... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
the company norms and culture.” Actively solicit feedback and listen to members of your community about their lived experience so that these practices are part of the conversation. Equity audits can also be used to bring in outside... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
post-secondary education to support and expand areas like career and technical training, and encouraging expansion of research and development in the US. There are a lot of areas of common ground. And there are a lot of opportunities to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Count: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning By: Di Stefano, Giada, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano, and Bradley Staats Abstract—How do organizations learn? In this paper, we build on research on the microfoundations of strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne