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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
their doctor is also a woman, the study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. Researchers looked at about 582,000 census records of patients admitted to Florida emergency rooms from 1991 to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
sustainability. If they don't develop science based targets to approach emissions reductions they may face threats from activist investors or a higher cost of capital. Business leaders thus have been and will continue to be some of the... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World War II, where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
direction is largely determined by the needs of its scientists and by the direction of the life sciences themselves. "Management's role therefore tends to be more of a resource provider," he says. Even so, Pratt adds that Whitehead's... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
2014 Management Science article, he examined the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Serafeim, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit, teaches across the School’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
not nearly enough are aiming to be market leaders in 2025. Foresight is a muscle that can be developed.” —Alison Sander (MBA 1986), director of Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Sensing & Mining the Future, from her October 2014 TED@BCG Berlin talk “Megatrends—The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age 16, Bradoo left Oman to study... View Details
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
America’s foremost firms, illustrate alternatives to America’s largely laissez-faire approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51000 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Universal Desire for More Equal Pay" by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton, copyright 2014, Perspectives on Psychological Science "Executive Paywatch: High-paid CEOs and the Low-Wage Economy," copyright 2015, AFL-CIO Thinking back... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
fortune to go remote-first while startups in hardware or the life sciences cannot. Embrace the opening for increased quantity and quality of candidates. Your initial cluster of employees should be viewed as an opportunity, not a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
partisan issues. But we do advance science and document the consequences of decisions that we make as a society. And while businesses like GE, Wal-Mart, and Johnson & Johnson are showing real leadership on the environment, some of our... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
her comfort zone, going straight from her Political Science undergraduate degree to Wall Street. When she accepted the Foreign Exchange Sales Analyst role at Bank of America, Gomih’s friends and family were a bit perplexed, but as Gomih... View Details
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Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
analytics, but truly appreciate aesthetics. I’m very conscious of my inner tension between analytical and creative thinking.” Following her mathematical and sciences baccalaureate, she pursued liberal arts at an all-girl military boarding... View Details
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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
style="font-size:12.0pt">Targeted articles searches: Search for articles in specific platforms: ScienceDirect: multidisciplinary – particularly strong in View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI for Leaders Business,... View Details
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Krishna Yeshwant
Hospital. As part of the Surgical Planning Lab, Krishna applied his computer science background to the development of 3D planning software for craniofacial surgery. Spanning medical and engineering worlds While working side-by-side with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match different agents as well as possible. "Al started... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Climate Risk; Corporate Accountability; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; United States
Flammer, Caroline, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan. "Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-049, October 2019. (Revised March 2021.)
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
segregation, is just one example of the positive and noteworthy impact social science research can have on the world beyond academia. But many researchers today have trouble communicating with non-academic audiences and engaging the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
strategic intent. This book of cases provides real examples of these challenges. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52557 forthcoming Management Science If You're Going to Do Wrong, at Least Do It Right:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne