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  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

    Rembrand M. Koning

    Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. He researches and teaches entrepreneurship, exploring the biases and frictions that shape how founders and markets learn. His current research explores... View Details

    Keywords: high technology; software; biotechnology
    • 16 May 2017
    • News

    The Enduring Work of David A. Garvin

    • 27 Jun 2019
    • Blog Post

    My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

    and Microsoft's Bing - and operations management for Benihana Sushi and OXXO. This exposed me to various fields where business skills can have a profound impact. After our classes we were privileged enough to hear from HBS alumni about... View Details
    • 02 May 2014
    • News

    The Book That Influences Ford’s New CEO’s Decisions

    • 08 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

    Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a co-author of the study. “The average settlement is in excess of $100,000 and the median is $40,000. These are costly offenses.” Included in the study was any... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 26 Jan 2022
    • Blog Post

    Video: HBS Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial

    View Video VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Dean Srikant Datar: 2021 brings a wonderful milestone: the 100-year anniversary of the introduction of the case method at Harvard Business School. I am excited to mark this moment in time as we both celebrate... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Remembering Alfred Chandler

    Harvard Business School, where he teaches the (MBA) Foundations business history course, Creating Modern Capitalism. He also serves as co-editor of the Business History Review. Al Chandler is appropriately regarded as the founder of the View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

    By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
    Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in project work and how that process affects the success of a helping episode, as perceived by help-givers and/or -receivers. We used daily diary entries and... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Performance; Cooperation
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    • 25 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

    As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 10 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur

    Becoming an entrepreneur wasn’t part of Desiree Stolar’s plan. A brand strategy and market research consultant, Desiree (MBA 2015) expected to hone her skills at HBS and then return to the field she loved. That all changed when her... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

    mark fifty years after the event, the statistics that marked extreme achievement on Everest were blown away as new records for the oldest, most often, and fastest climbs were logged in over a one-week... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

      Michael E. Porter

      Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
      • 03 Aug 2017
      • Blog Post

      “I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

      Sometimes inspiration does come from the likeliest places. For Rahil Mehrotra, MBA 2018, it emerged from a combination of HBS courses and experiences: The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course, the winter break Startup Boot Camp program, and most importantly, the View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship
      • 20 Oct 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College

      • March 2013
      • Article

      From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

      By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
      This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent... View Details
      Keywords: Professions; Disciplines; Neo-Liberalism; Education; Economics; Finance; Society; United States
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      • Web

      Alumni

      serving communities representing over 3 million people—and growing fast. Head to Bamboo X for the full Inside The Round podcast episode (link in bio). @HBSAlumni @hbsalumni Be Social Facebook Facebook Group Instagram LinkedIn More Social Media Our London meet-up is... View Details
      • 05 Sep 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: September 5, 2006

      this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more likely to engage in... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2007
      • Report

      From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation

      By: Mark R. Kramer, Rebecca W. Graves, Jason Hirschhorn and Leigh Fiske
      The field of philanthropy is undergoing a fundamental transition and is moving toward more performance-centered and forward-looking evaluation approaches that provide foundations and grantees with timely information and actionable insights. Based on nearly 100... View Details
      Keywords: Foundation Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Evaluation
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      Business Economics - Doctoral

      Business Economics From corporate finance, industrial organization, and international business, to markets, competition, and government regulation, HBS doctoral students in Business Economics delve into some of the most pressing and relevant topics in the View Details