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- 01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
vouchers for free contraceptives. Half received vouchers with their husbands present while the other half received them privately. A control group received no vouchers. The goal? To measure the influence of spousal pressure in a nation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
study, we looked at how gender-based assumptions in over 100 companies influenced issues such as career planning, goal setting, promotions, and raises. We examined the characteristics most frequently cited in performance management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
evolving, mutually beneficial channel strategies. To navigate the complex distribution environment successfully, companies must map the industry channel, build and continually edit their own channel to best serve customers, and align and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Books
fate by mastering three imperatives: manage yourself (management isn’t about getting things done yourself, it’s about accomplishing things through others); manage a network (understand how power and influence work in your organization and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
in the attacks, but that information was in separate silos. Richard Clarke, whose job it was to integrate across those silos, was a leftover from the Clinton administration, with limited influence in the new Washington power structure.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
internal evaluation of your values, your resources — financial and human — and your ability to communicate with your family. How should people’s values influence the way they manage their money? If you have money and don’t have good... View Details
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences that put her on this path. “Two of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Post-Soviet Purpose
of Slavic Studies. The book describes how national identities influence the world economy and explains patterns of economic disintegration and reintegration among Russia and the other fourteen states that composed the Soviet Union View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
interview, Adams noted that HBS influenced his thinking about capitalism and conservation. “We learned that there are market-based solutions to social issues,” he said. “It’s similar to what Michael Chu’s (MBA ’76) company, ACCION... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
question-and-answer period for the ambiguity of a hard-to-plan, free-flowing discussion driven by student ideas, which may well follow unusual paths and come to unexpected end points.” Although his teaching and research activities were based at HBS, Christensen’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
expert on commercial banking and a master of case-method teaching, died in November at the age of 94. Williams’s influence on American banking in the post–World War II decades is difficult to overstate. Throughout his 39-year teaching... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Gordon Donaldson Remembered
An expert in corporate financial management, HBS professor emeritus Gordon Donaldson (DCS ’56), a faculty member from 1955 to 1993, died on February 12. He was 87. Donaldson, a native of Canada, taught in the MBA, Executive Education, and Doctoral programs and had... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
With marketing, you must understand what people need. There’s the aspect of being a psychologist. And there’s always a creative element, which is fun, because with marketing, it’s not always who has the biggest budget—creativity can View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
challenge—the business world. “I knew that if I were to pivot in my career that it had to begin at HBS.” Her decision to apply was influenced by the School’s need-blind admission policy and generous fellowship program, which has also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
initiative happen within the framework of the School’s mission, and John Whitehead, who helped keep the expectations high, worked with faculty to develop the vision, and lent the networks and influence to support it. He has been a model... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books
how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
short-term investors: A market of buy-and-hold investors wouldn't be very useful. However, a market composed of mostly short-termers presents its own problems, and today they have too much impact on the market. The more influence... View Details