Power Tools Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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additional completion requirements, please review the Program Specific Certificate Requirements below. All work must be the participants own work and in their own words. Plagiarism is not tolerated, nor is cutting and pasting text from the internet or from any... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who foretold the timing as auspicious.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

used in settings with discrete transfers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53978 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

presented in mid-May 1995 to 650 students and some 70 faculty members and administrators by students coached in case-method teaching. "Using the tools we've learned at HBS, it served as a catalyst for the SA to solicit direction, ideas,... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

inevitable, in its progress. Not long ago, 80 percent of heroin users began by first abusing prescription opioids. Now it’s estimated that 40 to 60 percent of addicts are skipping prescription drugs and going straight to heroin. At the same time, fentanyl, a synthetic... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

populations navigate the criminal justice system. For Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021), a summer position at Rebel One Ventures “solidified my belief that technology has the power to dramatically change the lives of marginalized communities.” In... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

have in 25 years and then hold onto that ideal. If you graduate from HBS, you'll certainly have the tools to achieve whatever you want, so just stay at it and believe in yourself." Steven B. Belkin founded the Trans National Group, a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

clear that inciting such animosity — and indeed hatred — among certain groups of Americans toward their fellow citizens will serve our country well. Certainly, history offers no such assurances. In fact, leaders who have risen to power by... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

recognize that he’s not required to be part of that future, to lead the future. He just wants to show people the way. He uses power not for the accumulation of wealth, but as a force for good.” When McArthur stepped down from the Deanship... View Details

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