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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
the state level. Additional models examined whether this relationship was affected, both separately and jointly, by insurance mandates and the Great Recession. Results: The coincident index was positively correlated with IVF use at the national level (correlation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Summing Up Are there too many "hostages" in the work force? Before turning to responses to this month's column, let me note that this marks the tenth anniversary of "What Do You Think?" I want to thank all of you for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
Leadership Fellows Program, funded by the School, that each year will subsidize the salaries of ten or more newly minted MBAs who are interested in working at public and nonprofit organizations. The goal is to boost the compensation they would receive to levels... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
HBS faculty this fall after earning her doctorate from the London School of Economics. “If that credit stops, it can have a huge effect. We wanted to understand how firms deal with that, and what firms might not do that they otherwise... View Details
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Lisa Cousins
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I grew up in a very small town – you could call it “the middle of nowhere” – and have always been a bit of a dreamer, with aspirations to be a leader in the travel industry from a very... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
academic scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he competed for and won a spot on the football team, and earned a varsity letter and several championship rings. Despite playing behind a Heisman Trophy winner and four NFL draft... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
work prestige. And in Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men, we discover, with regret, that VC prefers to give money to men—and good looking men at that. But sometimes business glory goes to those who succeed the old-fashioned way: they View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
quality responses from the community. A beverage company client for Tongal initially asked for an ad that would convince people that its product was healthier than competitors. But if the question were posed in that way, many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
at Bain & Co. After earning his MBA at Harvard Business School, he joined the Kraft Group in 1990. Since that time, he has worked to help drive the growth and diversification of the Kraft Group. In his role as President, Jonathan is View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
John Rogers
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? As a non-business person by prior education and work experience and as someone with a specific career interest, I wanted to join a program that would significantly stretch my understanding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
Afroditi Xydi (MBA 2022), especially considering that 67 percent of those who left hold advanced degrees. Xydi, who earned a master’s in engineering from MIT, cofounded the nonpartisan Deon Policy Institute in 2022 with the aim of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
world, the past fifty years have been especially rich with menacing surprises, one response to which was the rise of strategy. Consider a few of the most significant jolts, which sometimes seemed like the four Horsemen of the Corporate... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting that such individuals can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at one of the nation's leading... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
resonate with consumers and give your company a competitive edge. 6 weeks 3-8 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you View Details
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Kaki Ettinger
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I was lucky enough to have discovered, fairly early on in life, a field I was so passionate about that I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Sophomore year of... View Details
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Cherian Kurien
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views of the faculty and fellow... View Details