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- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
lot more weight than inexperienced outsiders, potentially outweighing the other defects in the list’s construction. To find out, Luo and her co-authors took the list of approximately 700 films listed between 2007 and 2014, and examined... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
recognized? The interpretation and weighting of various types of information are rarely straightforward. As Joseph Berardino, Arthur Andersen's former chief executive, said in his congressional testimony on the Enron collapse, "Many... View Details
- Web
Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Chicago, where he worked for the Cook County Department of Weights and Measures. Travis Herndon Brown Jr. HBS 1919–1920 Culpeper, VA Randolph-Macon College, 1914 Travis Herndon Brown entered HBS following his military service in France... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
to drive change that will help the 99% that didn’t make it here. Trang Luu, Class of 2024 To me, being FGLI means breaking down barriers and adding rungs to help others climb the socioeconomic ladder behind me. It means carrying the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
otherwise. We’ve gone through a decade of journalist entrepreneurs being able to get—or thinking they can get—philanthropic funding as a runway to get their startup going. As with other business models that are weighted too heavily in one... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
is in this Report US-based alumni who work full time and whose spouses or partners also work full time. The observed data from our 2018 survey, Life & Leadership After HBS: Personal and Professional Paths, have been weighted to represent... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
could bring me over as soon as possible. Only decades later did I learn how much courage and strength it takes to sacrifice that much for your family. Being a second-generation Asian American means carrying the weight of those sacrifices... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
balance" and "meaningful careers" have crowded the market, little has been discussed about the cost we pay to just "look perfect" at work. Dieting, cosmetics, exercising, weight loss drugs...we are increasingly becoming more... View Details
Jean Nidetch
Nidetch believed that her efforts to lose weight would be enhanced by talking to others going through the same process. What began as a small support group meeting in her New York apartment in 1963 turned into a phenomenally successful... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
the site (They receive this status from Yelp based on their compliments sent to other Yelpers, whether they vote for reviews that are Useful, Funny, and Cool, and if they consistently post respectful and quality content). But there's no way under a simple View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
routine,” he told the “What’s Your Workout?” column in the Wall Street Journal Online (November 13, 2006). When not traveling, Bailey alternates between regular swims and at-home workouts with weights and a rowing machine (he rowed at... View Details
- Portrait Project
Meghan Murray
Swollen, black and blue, broken I again winced to put my big toe into my shoe. Knowing that going on stage for my Irish jig, I would have to put all of my weight on that toe five times, And leap, kick, and lift to make my beats heard All... View Details
- Portrait Project
Faya Peng
I want to be a servant. To show compassion. To love. I remember visiting grandparents in Taiwan as a young child. I will never forget the men, lying fully prostrate on the filthy ground in the open market, begging for money. I can still feel the View Details
Ernest T. Weir
one of the only firms in its industry that focused on the growing demand for lighter weight steel and alloy products, made it one of the only steel companies to consistently turn a profit during the Great Depression. View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 29 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Pursuing Independent Projects
because there were also courses that I wanted to take, so I ended up taking 16.5 credits my fall semester to be able to do both. I got to know Professor Serafeim during my RC year, which is how I learned about his Impact Weighted Accounts... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
says Norton. "I haven't prevented you from gaining weight or removed all of the French fries from the world." At the same time, the strategy uses people's biased thinking against them. For example, behavioral economics has shown that... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ellyn Creasey
I was supposed to be the leader. Instead, I was frustrated, tired, and angry. My division followed my example. Inevitably, the future will bring days of exhaustion and challenge. There will be external circumstances that seem unfair. But when that seed of frustration... View Details
- Portrait Project
Aditya Dhanrajani
for its maiden test drive. As I got in, the car gave way to my weight and collapsed. Later, in my engineering classes, I learned that I had executed a "catastrophic failure," but I had already learned the bigger lesson that day... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer
behavioral science, specifically, behavioral economics, tries to understand consumers as they actually behave and promote changes in their decision making around those biases. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Leslie John explains principles behind behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt