Filter Results:
(7,439)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,439)
- People (42)
- News (2,622)
- Research (3,209)
- Events (23)
- Multimedia (104)
- Faculty Publications (1,662)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(7,439)
- People (42)
- News (2,622)
- Research (3,209)
- Events (23)
- Multimedia (104)
- Faculty Publications (1,662)
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
In contrast, while almost 25 percent of Trump supporters said he was not qualified, they voted for him anyway. In addition, although Clinton won the popular vote, exit polls suggested that more people cast their vote against her than against him. Those who View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- Web
Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
Specialisterne, a Danish software firm with 75 percent of its workforce diagnosed with ASD. Ferose, like the founder of Specialisterne, has a son diagnosed with ASD. Specialisterne is what Austin calls the “gold standard” of neurodiversity. The software testing and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Schwartz
for new challenges. Following a yearlong sabbatical, he joined the legendary hedge fund and private equity firm founded by financier and philanthropist George Soros. The firm appeals to Schwartz’s twin interests in fund management and... View Details
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
members or compensation consulting firms in common. Gallani found that board interlock and compensation consultants had a definite effect on CEO compensation packages. In short, “When firms are connected in either way, the compensation... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
of the workplace identities people create and the ongoing challenges found in maintaining boundaries in the expanding digital world, especially following the pandemic, when so many professional-personal lines were blurred. “We’re told to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Based on surveys gathered from 140 employees in a division of a global chemical company, we found that direct knowledge and reflected knowledge enhanced trust differentially. While both enhanced feelings of closeness with others, results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
What You Can Support - Alumni
2023) joined a biotech startup, but soon found herself drawn from the lab bench to the business side. Harvard’s joint MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program and generous financial aid helped her make the move. Diversifying HBS's Case... View Details
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and... View Details
- Web
Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
Political Economy of Religion Seminar Series No results found in Events Suggestions: Were any results found in one of the other content buckets on the left? Try removing some search filters. Use different... View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
businesses over the long run: companies such as Tata Group, founded in India in 1868, or Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo, started in 1945. What sets these firms apart? What can leaders in developed markets learn from them? In the recent... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
entrepreneurship, both on the operator side – joining and founding startups in the crypto space – and on the investor side as a Venture Partner and mentor at firms including Bessemer and A16z. Right before HBS, I did a pre-MBA internship... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
In examining the way governments choose a structure in which to conduct investment promotion activities we found that most of the organizational issues fell within the realm of the public-private choice of management of certain... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve... View Details
- Portrait Project
Carlos Emilio Larreategui
eventually left Ecuador, convinced I would never return, as the shadows of hatred and discord at home loomed larger each day. With time, however, emptiness filled me. It was then that I realized that purpose could not be manufactured; it must be View Details
- 03 May 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo
that she might not have felt as comfortable with otherwise, like following her passion to found and build The Partnership, a sustainable social enterprise that has forever changed the fabric of Boston’s business community, especially for... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
assumed that both approaches would help improve performance, and that using both interventions together would lift it even more. After four weeks, they found that, indeed, both strategies worked—at least during the study period. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
was the strategy used by Ajay Banga to completely transform Mastercard from a company founded by a consortium of banks to one of the most digitally savvy and innovative companies in the world. Lean in: Novice downhill skiers tend to lean... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
likes on Facebook, yet Gupta says those likes haven’t amounted to much—certainly not a whole lot of purchases. “Do likes lead to loyal consumers or do loyal consumers tend to like a brand on Facebook? Do these likes lead to anything?” he asks. “What we View Details