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01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

be given a chance to be involved in the development of some really interesting companies," says Waters. He is pleased, nonetheless, with his decision to go out on his own. "To go from conferring on major issues with heads of global... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

manufacturing industries has been identified by some observers as a key factor in the current economic crisis in that region, a collapse that has been called the greatest threat to the world's economic stability in fifty years.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

choose to spend time with—work colleagues or family—based on how their pay is structured, in particular whether they get bonuses for a job well done or earn fixed salaries regardless of performance. In fact, employees who received... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

authentic. Authentic Leadership was intended as a clarion call to the new generation to learn from negative examples like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. In it, I defined authentic leaders as genuine, moral and character-based leaders:... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

He worked his way through college, earning an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins in 1964, and went on to receive his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966. After graduating from HBS, Bloomberg spent more... View Details

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

commercial messages. Social media did not have that contract, so that when customers were interrupted by brands in social media, it felt abrupt, inappropriate, and out of place." The power shift from marketers to consumers has created a landscape of what Avery... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

don’t think people would buy that” or “I don’t know if that’s even possible.” My mindset started to change last fall when I attended SPARK, the 2016 HBS Entrepreneurship Conference. Hearing founders at the conference share their stories... View Details

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

talent. Lastly, we will leverage the power of the Adelante Conference, our annual Latinx professional conference that brings together current and future Latino leaders. This will be hosted on-campus on February 6th, save the date! Meet... View Details

02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

blame the crisis on a set of specific goals. Q: One side effect of goal setting that your team identified is a rise in unethical behavior. Example: Your paper mentions that Bausch & Lomb employees falsified financial statements to meet View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

out to test, along with HBS research assistant Tom Sühr and Harvard computer science doctoral student Sophie Hilgard, in research published last year in the Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

eyes with white as its color. It was just one of the many moments that gripped the audience of doctoral students. And so much so that BiGS is planning a conference where Turner and his lab mates will present research that examines the... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters in the American workplace, but it remains a powerful barrier that prevents African Americans from ascending to leadership roles. The data is indeed bleak. While an increasing number of African Americans are... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

publicly signal this position. These cloaked trades earn an abnormal return of 370 basis points in the following month, or over 36% per year. We further show that the same managers do not engage in such information-rich cloaked trading... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

academics call transactional “friction.” As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value. At a 2019 business conference, Brian Chesky,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

a larger acquirer or facing the glare of earnings expectations as a publicly traded company. They should understand what’s at stake with both outcomes before it’s too late. "When I talk to entrepreneurs about this, the lightbulb goes on."... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

groceries have expanded to takeout and deliveries, and face-to-face meetings have been replaced by video conferences across many sectors of the economy. In China, which is ahead of the curve both in terms of the outbreak and the... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He... View Details

Keywords: April White

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 1. Survey Background In October of 2018, Harvard Business School hosted The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where We're Headed, a conference... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

Austin mercifully moved on. He then called on me to open the first class after Thanksgiving, the first after Christmas, the first after Easter break, and the last class of the year—when I analyzed a Gillette case for about 20 minutes and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details

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