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- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
question was answered emphatically with the HBS admissions letter’s opening sentence of “YES!” Answering this for myself began years before at the annual Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) conference. I attended as a... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
when I was three years old. Not wanting me to struggle with them as they built a new life in a foreign land, they left me with my grandparents back home. Even though my mom had an engineering degree and... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
The HBS Investment
HBS is an experience. HBS is an investment. HBS is two years to have fun, meet new people, and learn from some of the greatest teachers in the world. All of these hold a piece... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
finance patents in the years after the landmark litigation between State Street Bank and Signature Financial Group. We show that relative to two sets of comparison groups, finance patents in aggregate cite... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
said I needed to come live with them.” At 11 years old, Westphal moved to Massachusetts to be with his parents where he learned English and attended public schools in the Greater Boston area. As Westphal neared the end View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
During our first year at HBS, my classmates and I took the opportunity to build cleverlayover, a flight search engine that uses advanced algorithms to find flights hundreds of dollars cheaper than any other... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
logistics and profitability while making life much better for workers. Mercadona offers the lowest prices in Spain, and its operational performance exceeds that of comparable Spanish and foreign chains. In... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Why the MBA is Still Relevant
at a startup, nothing can replace two years of the personal and professional growth I had here at HBS. There are three major aspects of the HBS experience that confirmed for me... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
main consumer segment in the economy, are expressing decreased consumption due to better utilization of existing goods, lower spending capacity, lower desire to consume, and delays in key View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Originally from Mexico City, Mexico Paulina Ponce de Leon moved to the United States in 2001 to attend Wellesley College. After graduating from Wellesley, Paulina spent a year travelling and pursuing a Master’s degree at MIT. Paulina... 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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)
When I joined the Senior Executive Leadership Program—India (SELP—India) at Harvard Business School, I wasn’t entirely sure how it would impact my career. I was already leading Business Transformation at Legrand India and had spent years... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Motherhood and the MBA
all. Before coming to HBS, Katie spent 7.5 years as a Surface Nuclear Warfare Officer in the US Navy. After making the transition out of the Navy in late 2012, she welcomed son Lincoln (now aged three) into... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
times a professor’s research has been published or cited is that approach presumes that researchers have equal amounts of time available. The reality, he says, is that some researchers must spend more hours... View Details