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22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

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HBR Classics - Alumni

Discovering Your Authentic Leadership , Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Myer Do You Play to Win or Not Lose , Heidi Grant Halvorson, E. Tory Higgins Level 5 Leadership - The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve ,... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

founding team worthy equity grants and, in earlier stage businesses could be anointed as “co-founder” down the road if the relationship blossoms over time. The cofounder courtship If you’ve decided that you really want and/or need a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

March–April 2022
Article

Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize

By: Shefali V. Patil and Ethan Bernstein

Despite organizational psychologists’ long-standing caution against monitoring (citing its reduction in employee autonomy and thus effectiveness), many organizations continue to use it, often with no detriment to performance and with strong support, not protest, from... View Details

Keywords: Monitoring; Transparency; Polarization; Body Worn Cameras; Quasi Field Experiment; Analytics and Data Science; Employees; Perception; Law Enforcement

Citation

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10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

different tasks: explaining and servicing products, collecting information, and pressuring people to make purchases by overcoming resistance. Salesmen learned to answer specific questions about a product and its application, and to grant... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

“overhead-free” group, recipients were told that a donor had given a grant to cover all the overhead costs associated with raising money for the project. The results were significant. In the control group, 336 out of 10,000 letter... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Farre-Mensa, Joan, Deepak Hegde, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

personal, business, management, and financial risk before granting or denying the loan. Because these applications had already been processed in real life, the researchers knew whether each one had been accepted for a loan, and which of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

09 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

Keywords: by Kevin J. Murphy & Michael C. Jensen

Trust

Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

elected the undergraduate credit option or have enrolled in the non-credit version of the program. More information is available on the Payment & Financial Aid page . Are there grants for CORe? How do I qualify? + – CORe participants may... View Details

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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Overview Doctoral 100 Years 1922 Training Men for Teaching Business HBS is authorized by the Harvard University Governing Boards to grant the degree of Doctorate of Commercial Science. 1928 Gragg Awarded First Doctorate of Commercial... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

part of the Social Enterprise Summer Fellows cohort. (deadline in February - May) Apply for the Social Impact Fellowship Fund: The Social Impact Fellowship Fund at the Harvard Innovation Labs awards grants to Harvard student-led ventures... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

make it easier for low-income and disadvantaged communities to improve climate resilience. The law includes a significant amount of funding in Title VI (Environment and Public Works). Grants to reduce air pollution at ports received $3... View Details

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

range of career choices: Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship: Grants awards of approximately $10,000 to 7 to 10 first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the not-for-profit sector. HBS... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

James Quillin The Post Oak High School Houston, TX Subjects: Grade 11/12 Global Politics in Historical Context PA Thomas Quinn Central High School Philadelphia, PA Subjects: Civics and Economics, African American History FL Dennis Rach Lake Nona High School Orlando, FL... View Details

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

much easier on the budget. The most dramatic impact the researchers found was in the area of college enrollment. In an effort to increase the number of students applying for higher education, federal and state governments have put large amounts of money into View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

18 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Karim Lakhani

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