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- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
are legal fees and recruiting costs for hiring immigrants, and that kind of stuff will quickly wipe out any underpayment that a firm would get off a $50,000 salary. So I don't have the belief that firms are using this to reduce the wage... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
capital firms strategize and differentiate. Global strategy—a new form of herd behavior? How to scale up the partnership to the global operations level. Protecting venture capital operations from legal shortcomings and corruption. What... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
was providing rides in 311 cities and 58 countries, and the startup’s reported valuation was estimated at about $70 billion in 2017. Consumers raved so much about the service initially that many public officials happily rewrote rules to... View Details
- Web
Policies | MBA
on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, veteran status, disability, military service, or any other legally protected basis in admission to, access to,... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
versions, we will add support for other online marketplaces,” the researchers write on the site debiasyourself.org. The tool also allows guests to peruse potential rental properties without seeing profile pictures of the hosts. Is it View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
consultant for the design of the Spangler Center, which will provide new space for student services on campus. Not the least of Lirio Marcelo's accomplishments were in the professional arena: while maintaining solid grades as a full-time... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
who directs the Law School's Islamic Studies Program, explained that such legal systems do not rely on precedents or written codes and have an inherent dependence on religious beliefs. "This law is seen as deriving from direct, divine... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
excelling in the predominantly male-run world of business. "These women who make it through the corporate, investment banking, consulting, and even the legal gauntlet, and at 50 or 55, are ready and qualified to sit on a corporate... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
said. “One of the challenges we face in retail service operations is that the customer is part of the operating process” Raman also talked about empathy in dealing with difficult customers who hurt business by disturbing other customers... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
continue to make decisions that miss opportunities to make all parties better off. We will end up with inefficient methods of creating a cleaner environment. We will continue to miss opportunities to provide more services for the poor at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- News
Wells, Mathews elected to Harvard Corporation
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
attorney to live her entrepreneurial dream, had to learn everything about the baking business from scratch. She worked with an East Coast bakery consultant to get training, recipes, and equipment. With her legal background, HBS... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
suppliers that adopt legalization structures (operationalized as management system standards) and worker participation structures (unions) and find that the combination of these structures amplifies improvement. We find less improvement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
in Boston. "But I wanted to really learn how to run a nonprofit," she recalls. After considering law school, she applied to HBS because of its increasing emphasis on social entrepreneurship. "I had a mentor who helped me realize that not all big societal problems were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
exception of her brother-in-law, Gerardo Pennisi. Pennisi, a young lawyer whose immigrant family came from a village not far from Castiglione, understood Russo’s plight and supported her quest for personal freedom. “He saw in me what no one else could,” says Russo. She... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and related supporting tools, technology and services organizations. Students can work on projects alone or in teams within the course. The field course will explore four different... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
community. “I had a chance to not only cook day in and day out, but to be in a place that was a scene. People went there to fly their flag, and be with other people who were like them,” Duda says. In Boston, Duda was in the kitchen at the original View Details
Keywords: April White