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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Human Capital
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Supply- and Demand-Side Effects in Performance Appraisals: The Role of Gender and Race

By: Iris Bohnet, Oliver P. Hauser and Ariella Kristal
Performance reviews in firms are common but controversial. Managers’ subjective appraisals of their employees’ performance and employees’ self-evaluations might be affected by demographic characteristics, interact with each other as self-evaluations are typically... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisals; Gender; Race; Performance Evaluation
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2024 The Parlor Room Anthony Mayo on What Makes an Effective Leader Chris Linnane Harvard Business School Professor Anthony Mayo joins host Chris Linnane to explore what distinguishes good leaders from great ones, emphasizing how emotional intelligence enables leaders... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 07 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

    entrepreneurial venture. The paper, which offers a rare glimpse into an area where little consolidated data is available, is forthcoming in the journal Social Science & Medicine. "This study happens to focus on cadavers, but it... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • 10 Dec 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Vulnerable Banks

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Evidence from Field Data Advisors: Eugene F. Soltes (Chair), Krishna G. Palepu , and Aiyesha Dey Close Business Economics 2025 Maxim Alekseev Business Economics, 2025 Placement: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Finance... View Details
    • September 2016
    • Case

    Hotel Vertu: Financing the Venture in the Boutique Hotel Industry

    By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
    Two recent MBA graduates are considering a business opportunity in the boutique hotel industry. Having found a seemingly attractive property in Savannah, Georgia, Yvonne D'Arcy and Elisabeth Whiting face questions about financing, deal structure, and unequal power... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Accommodations Industry
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    Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

    My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

    • 26 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Improving Market Research in a Recession

    face added pressure to secure high-quality data and insights. I recommend that CMOs take the following seven steps to minimize the impact of reduced spending. Stay focused. Savvy marketers focus their research on the products, brands, and... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Value of Professional Ties in B2B Markets

    By: Navid Mojir and Sriya Anbil
    We study how a particular form of social ties (i.e., professional ties proxied by past employment) affects price and profitability in business-to-business (B2B) markets. While most of the work on social ties focuses on information diffusion in business-to-consumer... View Details
    Keywords: Professional Ties; Social Ties; Business-to-business Marketing; B2B Marketing; Repo; Individual Connections; B2B Pricing; Pricing; Decision-making In Financial Markets; Marketing; Relationships; Price; Financial Markets; Decision Making
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    • 09 Nov 2023
    • HBS Case

    What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

    As a finance specialist, Harvard Business School Professor Lauren Cohen works to understand the dynamics that make businesses thrive. In his recent research on family companies, he has found one common thread among successful firms: They... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
    • 30 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

    researchers were inspired to investigate the link between anger and guilt five years ago after discussing true crime documentaries and the dynamics of the falsely accused being interviewed by police. “As behavioral scientists, we wondered... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 5, 2006

      Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Program

    Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

    a competitive advantage Understand the core fundamentals of how to launch and maintain a platform business that outperforms digital and conventional competitors in the United States, China, and other global markets Identify how to leverage View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Data-driven Technologies and Local Information Advantages in Small Business Lending

    By: Wilbur Chen, Jung Koo Kang and Aditya Mohan
    We investigate whether banks' adoption of data-driven technologies influences competitive dynamics in local small business lending by diminishing the information advantages traditionally held by local banks. Using local newspaper closures as an adverse shock to the... View Details
    Keywords: Data-driven Technologies; Local Information Advantages; Local Banks; Relationship Lending; Small Business Loans; Small Business; Local Range; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Banking Industry
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    • 31 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

    organizations embrace and adapt to these key shifts in the business landscape, participants said. Companies able to navigate this unforgiving dynamic tended to have the following characteristics: 1. An intimate and View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • Program

    Agribusiness Seminar

    deepen their understanding of the food and agriculture landscape, exchange perspectives, strengthen their networks, and cultivate ideas to shape this vital industry. In our upcoming seminar, you will explore current and future industry View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
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    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    AI-driven technologies are transforming marketing and customer experience. Around 40 alumni, friends, and business executives participated, engaging in a dynamic exchange on the future of AI in marketing. February 2025 Alumni Event Alumni... View Details
    • Web

    Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    clusters can enhance competitiveness in today’s increasingly complex, knowledge-based, and dynamic economy. As part of its long-running Cluster Mapping Project, the Institute is building a registry of U.S. cluster initiatives. A similar... View Details