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08 Apr 2015
HBS Seminar

Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business

04 Oct 2017
HBS Seminar

Tania Babina, Columbia Business School

The Transparency Paradox

2013 Winner of Academy of Management Awards for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior and Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory

Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second... View Details

Using AI to Adjust Your Marketing and Sales in a Volatile World

Why are some firms better and faster than others at adapting their use of customer data to respond to changing or uncertain marketing conditions? A common thread across faster-acting firms is the use of AI models to predict outcomes at various stages of the customer... View Details

9 AM – 5 PM EST, 12 Feb 2022
Virtual Programming

31st Women In Business Conference: Building a Successful Life

We are thrilled to invite you to the 31st Annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference. The conference provides an exciting opportunity to forge new connections while learning from the experiences of all our speakers and each other. The theme of the conference is... View Details

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

controlling for participants' income levels. A third experiment asked participants to rate the "permissibility" of 20 household items in the US Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index, purchased either by a lower- or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

(JD/MBA 2021) and Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021), co-presidents of the JD/MBA Association, offer their perspectives on the program and what they have learned about the HLS/HBS joint degree. It’s a four-year program that gives you the full View Details

09 Nov 2021
News

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

Keywords: Mentoring; mentorship

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

find these companies more easily. In addition, says Lerner, there should be an effort to compile the experiences of asset-owners (such as endowments and pensions) to capture best practices. Those might include lessons on how these capital... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in wealth creation . The fund also seeks to provide HBS students with hands-on View Details

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

Student Association, the South Asian Business Association, the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, the Tech Club, and the Brew Club. She plans on starting a career in venture capital investing. What advice would you give to incoming students?The most important... View Details

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

experiment with generative artificial intelligence (AI)—ramifications of its use on practice are just starting to be examined. The research sheds light on the biases that digital platforms, whether a simple messaging solution or a... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

about what you mean by relevant "experience," which is the most frequently used criterion by sales managers. In one survey, over 50 percent cited "selling experience within the industry" as their key selection... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and consumption, but across the board these View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

effect of external finance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-047.pdf Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship Authors:Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity depends on the prior career... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
Case

Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States

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08 May 2025
HBS Seminar

Ramesh Johari, Stanford

08 Feb 2017
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Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

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