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  • 28 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at Harvard Business School for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus. What do we do? Our role is to make... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

BrooklynSummer associate in International Strategy The company culture was everything it was hyped up to be.  Quilts for curtains. Employee-led classes on how to watercolor greeting cards. But I missed having an impact on a company, the... View Details

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    we are willing to contribute ideas in the workplace or try to compete for a promotion,” Coffman says. “If talented women in STEM aren’t confident, they might not even look at those fields in the first place. It’s all about how good we... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Feb 2017
    • News

    The Morning Risk Report: Corporate Cash Distribution Isn’t Short-Termism Culprit

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation

    By: Dae Woong Ham, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley and Iavor Bojinov
    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers’ decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior
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    • Article

    Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making

    By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
    Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment
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    • 27 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 27

    of the most successful Navies at the time. The case's extraordinary outcome illustrates the randomness of innovation and the importance of strong executive leadership in leading change associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1, 2008

    enabling conditions required for each to work in practice. In the final section of the paper, we discuss how firms can "mix and match" multiple modes of collaboration into coherent "architectures" that lie at the heart... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    of Enron's conduct and performance, is the missing link in a full understanding of Enron's collapse and its lessons for the leaders of 21st-century business enterprise. Innovation Corrupted at Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • Web

    Application Requirements - Doctoral

    on the materials available at the time of review. Please note that even though the online application system may indicate that your application is incomplete, it will still be reviewed by the appropriate admissions committee. If you are... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Eva Ascarza
    Professor Ascarza’s research primarily focuses on providing researchers and marketers a better understanding of how to manage customer retention so as to reduce churn and increase firm’s profitability. She addresses these issues by building empirical models of customer... View Details
    • 09 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

    Since emigrating from Syria at the age of five, I have personally experienced the uphill battle of obtaining health care coverage as a non-US citizen. My family, along with many other immigrant and low-income families, are often forced to... View Details
    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 26 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26

    from non-experts or not at all. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47824 August 2014 Administrative Science Quarterly The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    What is an HBS Section?

    in such a big class?” Well, Neil Wusu (MBA 2015) and Philipp Schalli (MBA 2015) are here today to answer some of those common questions, tell you about section life, and the ways it builds a community here at HBS. What is an HBS section?... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna
    A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India
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    • 2008
    • Article

    Industrial Specialization and Regional Clusters in the Ten New EU Member States

    By: Orjan Solvell, Christian H.M. Ketels and Goran Lindqvist
    Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of regional concentration patterns within ten new European Union (EU) member states, EU10, and make comparisons with EU15 and the US economy.
    Design/methodology/approach—Industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Policy; Employment; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; European Union; United States
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    • 28 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28

    that would define the world of technology and transform our lives. At their peaks, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel were collectively worth some $1.5 trillion. Strategy Rules examines these three individuals collectively for the first... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Oct 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

    basketball fan and a sociologist, began looking at the NBA several years ago as an ideal field in which to study the insidious effects of discrimination. “Racial bias is really hard to measure,” Zhang says. In most business scenarios... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports