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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE For 50 years, Harvard Business School has recognized a number of outstanding women and men by conferring on them its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award.... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Global Citizen Year Abigail Falik, MBA 2008 Global Citizen Year is building a movement of young Americans who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college. Global Reference Check... View Details
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively stock return volatility and exchange rate volatility. This paper presents evidence that movements in both the short-term nominal interest rate and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
evidence, while consistent with agency theory, does not confirm the private information hypothesis. Download the working paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1134943 Cases & Course MaterialsAddleshaw Goddard LLP Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
A large amusement park. A long line at an airport. A children's summer camp in Italy. What do these places have in common? Surprisingly, all are settings for serious research by Harvard Business School faculty. There's a sea change afoot... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
Social Change Lab at Stanford University; Robb Willer, professor of sociology at Stanford University; Mohsen Mosleh, associate professor at the University of Oxford; Gordon Pennycook, associate professor at Cornell University; and David Rand, professor of management at... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
for many of us in the Black community. We are roughly 70 years away from the barbarity of white supremacy that led to Jesse Thornton being lynched in 1940 because he forgot to call a police officer “Mister.” Imagine the savagery that leads to John Jackson, a 30-year... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for revolutionary change. Three Harvard... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting associate professor in the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
where no amount of money can guarantee the existence of a fair allocation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-053.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBetfair vs. UK Bookmakers Harvard Business School Case 709-417 Betting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAcademia Barilla Harvard Business School Case 507-001 Barilla, the world's largest pasta company, has introduced a new high-quality, high-priced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
Commencement 2018 Address Play Video duration: 16:15 As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 24 May 2018 Class of 2018, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and welcome. Each year, I look... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
visual and econometric evidence now backs it up. But it moves the question from how to develop your isolated internal R&D function to how to manage a collection of transient professionals who are constantly communicating and moving. Instead of hiring someone fresh... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Himalayas, through the four spiritual peaks. And we went with two full-time cinematographers and we each had GoPro type cameras. That, much like the death of my friend, accelerated this movement and reorientation of values away from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
hero or something in school today,” the third-place finisher boasted to his hometown paper. That was the dynamic that would define competitive video gaming for nearly two decades, even as technology changed the pace and complexity of the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
uses a unique panel dataset that allows us to track the career histories of individuals across firms. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been entrepreneurs before, or if the co-workers' careers involved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job
distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Bernstein, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit here at HBS, about... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
cause movement out of urban areas. This process is associated with improvements in the spatial allocation of plants across urban and rural locations. Spatial location of plants has implications for policy on investments in education,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel