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Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler

Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are... View Details

Keywords: Incentives; Motivation Laundering; Self-signaling; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Perception

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California Corporate Finance Conference Best Paper Award

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2015 California Corporate Finance Conference for “Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns” with Tom Chang, Samuel Hartzmark, and David Solomon. View Details

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Cultural Diversity on Wall Street: Evidence from Consensus Earnings Forecasts

By: Kenneth Merkley, Roni Michaely and Joseph Pacelli

We examine how cultural differences among agents influence the aggregate outcome of a common forecasting task. Using both exogenous shocks to sell-side analyst diversity and panel regression methods, we find that increases in analyst cultural diversity positively... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Forecasting; Sell-side Analysts; Information Aggregation; Diversity; Forecasting and Prediction; Information; Performance Improvement

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11 Oct 2012
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Answering the Doctor's Call

located in Copley Township, Ohio, and the younger Downing wanted to help take the family business to the next level. So instead of medicine, Downing studied business at Bowling Green State University, and later earned his Harvard MBA, all... View Details

Keywords: resumed education; nontraditional students; Health, Social Assistance

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

the final decision together—in fact, a series of interrelated and difficult decisions leading to the all-important outcome. What follows is the story of how the collective judgment they called upon was built and embedded in the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

A recent conference at Harvard Business School addressed the on-the-ground reality of women leaders 50 years after the first women were admitted to the School's two-year MBA Program. And the reality is that women leaders are stuck—for... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

26 Apr 2016
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YALP16 Chattanooga Video Conference

14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action

$1.5 billion in assets and approximately $450 million in annual revenue, Dairyland Power employs more than 550 people and owns more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines. It’s an opportunity Nick didn’t want to pass up, as she’d just recently published Lenses of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits are learning to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead

"Alone, I am nothing, I have nothing. We have power, but we will never see it work, unless we come together to make it work." - Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Ayi's exquisite words summarize my reflections from the recently concluded Africa... View Details

24 Feb 2015
Blog Post

Finding Unity in our Diversity: The Second Annual LGBTQ Conference at Harvard

theme was both an aspiration and a call to action: Unified by our Diversity: Solidarity Within and Beyond the LGBTQ Community. This year’s conference was a unique opportunity to bring together students,... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference

professor James Cash; and Ann Fudge (MBA '77), honorary 2001 conference chair. In addition, a preconference program, "Venture Capital and Private Equity Summit 2001: Building New Networks," will be held on October 5. For more information,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

AASU Holds 25th Annual Conference "Our Silver Past and Golden Future" was the theme of the 25th annual Career/Alumni Conference of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), held January 30 to February 2... View Details

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

than 2 percent of all research published in the leading finance journals. Accordingly, in early July, HBS finance professor Peter Tufano organized a conference for eighty researchers from the United States and Europe to discuss finance... View Details

07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

California. The conference was hosted by HBS’s Marketing Club and was sponsored by Procter & Gamble, The Boston Consulting Group, H-E-B, ABInBev, American Express, General Mills, Ibotta, and Samsung. “The energy on campus was... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

"Build it and they will come," announced Donald Hastings (MBA '53), chair of the HBS Global Alumni Conference held May 15-18 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. Greeting a record-breaking crowd of more than one thousand participants, he... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

characterized the conference as "a community-wide call to action" and an opportunity to explore the role of HBS graduates in contributing to development in the African-American community. On the opening day... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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