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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Featured Exercises Identify phases of the real estate market Prepare for a real estate negotiation Conduct valuation analysis Classify real estate products based on their diversification potential 6-7 hrs... View Details

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

new research. In fact, social bonding among men may account for more than a third of the gender gap in promotions, according to the working paper The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap. “I’m not surprised the old boys’ club... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Nov 2015
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Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

the opinion of a European consultant that “those companies with female executives on top level are (hold your breath) ... only those who can afford having women on the board.” The research clearly did not meet the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 May 2022
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Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

at a time when many marginalized groups are calling for more equitable treatment in the workplace. “A lot of people from historically marginalized groups have experienced marginalization and discrimination, and that makes us wary to put... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

where they operate. “This wasn’t a shiny new product, and other firms didn’t view this operator as a partner,” he adds. “But we were very confident in her ability to execute her plan and confident that we could find investors who could appreciate it. Now she’s actively... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

10 Feb 2023
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COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

were using the platform to conduct various COVID-19 information campaigns. That conversation planted the seeds for the study. “What we wanted to do was zoom out and say: How cost effective are these interventions as a whole?” Luca says.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. It also teaches students about management and governance systems leaders can use to promote responsible View Details

2019
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Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

By: Malcolm S. Salter

In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

never made twice. AT&T's Bell Laboratories conducted reviews of its own software engineers to determine why some were more productive than others with the goal of... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

the cost of processing large quantities of small customer orders. Customized pricing policies should be at the heart of any strategy to manage customer profitability. The... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

agencies, and compared prosocial and standard job postings with the same skill requirements—some 27,000 of them. To test the veracity of their work, the authors... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

Reinventing State Capitalism

In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Business School faculty and delivered via our innovative online platform designed to bring the HBS classroom to you. Wherever you are in your career—or the world—we can help you achieve your goals. In a recent survey conducted by City... View Details

31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

has spent a career studying power dynamics within corporations, political institutions, and other organizations. Power is intoxicating To bring social science research on power to life, Battilana and Casciaro conducted more than 100... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

provides a venue for the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and leaders of organizations from across the globe. 2018 AASU 50 The 50th anniversary of the... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

challenge for future generations of HBS leaders and students, Baker elaborated, “It must be remembered always that the standard of excellence which must be maintained comes not... View Details

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Working Groups Update | About

the issues they expect to understand and address (see below); to identify how they might engage members of our community, whether on the working groups, through focus groups and conversations, or by providing opportunities for education;... View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

HBS and worked with the Administration to conduct an outreach program to a number of undergraduate colleges including Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The number View Details

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