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  • 07 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

many, anxiety and loneliness – our visibility and representation matter more than ever. Here, students share their personal stories through the National Coming Out Day student storyboard series organized by the PRIDE club. Visit our... View Details
  • December 2022
  • Article

Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations

By: Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo, Jorrit de Jong, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy Edmondson, Anahide Nahhal and Lisa Cox
To address complex social challenges, it is widely recognized that leaders from public, for-profit, and civic organizations should join forces. Yet, well-intended collaborators often struggle to achieve alignment and fail to gain traction in their joint efforts. This... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Goals and Objectives
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  • 2019
  • Article

Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity

By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Decisions; Quality
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  • March 2013
  • Case

NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser
The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks... View Details
Keywords: Short Selling; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Analysts; Valuation; Business Analysis; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Securitization; Securities Analysis; Fraud; Accounting Quality; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Restatements; Hedge Fund; Hedge Funds; Accounting Scandal; Accounting Fraud; Financial Crisis; Financial Intermediaries; Financial Firms; Corporate Accountability; Subprime Lending; Mortgage Lending; Accounting; Accrual Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Governance; Governance Compliance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Financial Services Industry; United States; California
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    Zhongming Jiang

    Zhongming Jiang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Marketing (Quantitative) at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on developing methodologies for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that enable personalized interventions, dynamic customer... View Details

    • 24 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    Introducing the HBS Heartland Club

    Reno, Nevada, the Heartland has so much to offer, and we want to make sure we have that representation in the student body and in our outreach initiatives. In order to do this, we want to increase exposure to the Heartland in all aspects... View Details
    • March 1, 2022
    • Article

    Widespread Use of National Academies Consensus Reports by the American Public

    By: Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo, Ameet Doshi and Omar Isaac Asensio
    In seeking to understand how to protect the public information sphere from corruption, researchers understandably focus on dysfunction. However, parts of the public information ecosystem function very well, and understanding this as well will help in protecting and... View Details
    Keywords: Reports; Surveys; AI and Machine Learning; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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    Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)

    By: Shawn A. Cole

    This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details

    • 01 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

    middle school, I transitioned to living in San Antonio with my dad who is Panamanian and who was married to my stepmom. Two more siblings came along and I found myself in a two-parent, relatively stable middle-class household. I learned a... View Details
    • 20 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

    Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
    • Web

    Marketing - Doctoral

    By their third and fourth years, most students are launched on a solid research and publication stream. The dissertation may take the form of three publishable papers or one longer dissertation. Recent examples of doctoral thesis research include: Incrementality View Details
    • 20 Apr 2023
    • Blog Post

    Tackle the First 90 Days of Your Next Role: A 5 Step Process for Success on the Job

    Detail What, Why, and How Step 1 in the “slow down to go fast” five-step process is to detail the first 90 days by communicating openly with your manager about: What you plan to do to learn your new role and contribute Why you are... View Details
    • 02 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 2

    candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • Web

    Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

    Incrementality Representation Learning (IRL), a novel multitask representation learning framework that predicts heterogeneous causal effects of... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

    cites: Meta’s goal to raise the representation of people of color, including Black leadership, by 30 percent between 2020 and 2025; Hartford Prudential Financial’s goal to have 20 percent people of color in senior leadership roles by... View Details
    Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

    diversity data—even if it shows a disparity in the representation of employees of color—doesn’t hurt consumer attitudes toward a company. And, when the numbers show that a company’s workforce is relatively diverse, consumers feel even... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • Web

    Leadership Initiative - Leadership

    Review Press 2014), co-founder of Paradox Strategies, and co-creator of the Innovation Quotient, re:Route, and re:Mind. Hill co-founded InnovationForce, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to accelerate the process of innovation.... View Details
    • Web

    Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    MBA elective course focuses on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for example, climate risk, environmental sustainability, minority View Details
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    (MBA 1993) on what companies can do to improve Black representation in their ranks What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic Joro founder Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) on the power of collective... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

    One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment