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- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
conducted experiments online, telling participants the makeup of a board of directors, as well as the identity of a departing board member, and asking them to recommend a replacement from a list of available candidates of different races... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital
opportunity to strengthen his profile and built business development and startup experience through internships. Memme also continued crafting and reflecting on his Career Criteria, had regular check-ins with his Career Coach, Kristen... View Details
- 05 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava
at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this role I got to see another side of tech and startups – the investor and VC world. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? The risk-free nature of the four-year deferral period... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
influences playing on strong natural aptitudes, particularly in mathematics, it's not surprising that Hughes was a high-school standout in Polson, Montana. Among her many honors: being named to USA Today's "Top Twenty All-Academic USA... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
Valerie, a lifelong athlete who brings decades of experience in the fitness industry to the role of COO; Gordon is CFO and general counsel. People would naturally assume that a private, indoor club simply... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an intensive, immersive experience that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum the ability to integrate their learning in the RC through... View Details
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Clubs - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Clubs 0ms Student-led clubs and activities give students the opportunity to become better informed about and engaged in issues and possible career paths. A number of clubs focus on the link between business and environment... View Details
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
in-group." Past research shows negativity spread fastest in contexts that involved two or more rival or competing groups, where negative emotions were more likely to prevail. The polarized nature of American political discourse,... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
it is negatively correlated with profitability and positively correlated with performance on political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically aligned firms View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
country that we go to, we always visit the open market, because that’s where you see real living,” he says. “You see it out in the open.” "Coming down the mountain at full speed, there’s nothing like it." People experience View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- January 2025 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
deeply. We found that gender biases affect women at all stages of their careers and create barriers to advancement. Identifying and understanding the commonalities in many women's experiences is an important first step to overcoming the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
and was accepted into the program, which would be a transformative experience that set her on a trajectory to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard... View Details
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
cold call, depending on pedagogical objectives and the nature of the case. Options include: Non-expert: An instructor may call on a student with less expertise in the subject matter to prevent the discussion from moving ahead too quickly... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(6) Entertainment (21) Entrepreneurship (290) Environmental Accounting (8) Environmental Sustainability (180) Equality and Inequality (44) Equity (25) Ethics (172) Ethnicity (8) Executive Compensation (13) Executive Education (11) Expansion (2) View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 708-418 Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
money, time, and connections that part the workplace waters—even when they don’t have the best ideas or the most talent. “It’s a myth that hard work is enough. We’ve all had experiences where we worked hard and still ended up losing out... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
Periodical:North Carolina Law Review 84 (May 2006). We use the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory to explore how changes in the nature of the relationship between law firms and their clients may have implications for the structure of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Working Paper
How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions
By: Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes and Yuval Millo
This paper, based on a five-year longitudinal study at two UK-based banks, documents and analyzes the practices used by risk managers as they aim to gather and establish influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1)... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Banking Industry
Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo. "How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-068, January 2011. (Revised October 2013.)