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02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

conversation that came up around the dinner table or regularly for any reason. I grew up in a single parent household for most of my youth, and so money was tight, it just wasn't something we discussed. And then later in life, as I got older and I started to View Details

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

even some investors—including Eric Paley (MBA 2003), managing partner of seed-stage fund Founder Collective—have been speaking openly about the downside of venture capital, cautioning that it should be regarded as only one of many... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

2008). He is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review and co-founding editor of the Academy of Management Annals. Art now co-edits Research in Organizational Behavior. He is a Fellow of the Academy... View Details

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his career, he has been an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Understanding Advanced Topics in Accounting by Lawrence Weiss (DBA 1989) (Business Expert Press) Accounting information provides individuals with a starting point to understand and evaluate the key drivers of a firm, its financial position, and performance. If you are... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. Oui, La... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

country riven by tribal factions and lacking roads, electricity, and a well-functioning government—required the mindset of a manager who half-jokingly refers to himself as a “lovable dictator.” Khoja below a billboard on Bibi Mahru Hill,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

business loans, job skills training, and unemployment benefits that were provided to white veterans. These publicly-provided benefits laid the foundation for much of the American middle class. That might... View Details

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

provider" offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage, and asset management services to clients in the infrastructure sector. With nearly 50% of its employees joining through acquisitions,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not compensate for the cost of exercising discretion in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Blog

When Generations Learn Together

and ultimately chose what I liked the best. I found a role that seems to satisfy my endless curiosity and desire for problem-solving and analytics, managing and deploying resources, testing and improving leadership skills, creating new... View Details

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

of accounting, and users of the book benefit from a breadth of experience that is sure to enrich your course and your students. Managing Differences: The Central Challenge of Global Strategy Author:Pankaj... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

this is relevant in many contexts. For example, suppose that you noticed that most of your employees weren’t enrolling in your company’s 401k plan. One interpretation would be that the employees have thought carefully about the decision and aren’t enrolled because they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and earn some management exposure,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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