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  • 01 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS

program materials fees, room and utilities, and estimated living expenses. 3. What scholarships are available at HBS? While admissions are based on merit, financial aid is awarded based on demonstrated need. HBS has need-based... View Details
  • 2015
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures

By: William R. Kerr
Core Curriculum in Entrepreneurship is a series of Readings that cover fundamental course material in Entrepreneurship. Readings include Interactive Illustrations which help students master complex concepts quickly.
Global ventures are those that weave... View Details
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Bodies at Risk: Chemicals Testing in the United States and Europe

This book project examines environmental regulation comparatively between the United States and Europe, with a focus on testing programs and controls on the manufacture of commodity and specialty chemicals. Findings thus far indicate that different relations among... View Details

  • July 2015
  • Article

Executives' 'Off-the-Job' Behaviors and Financial Reporting Risk

By: Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey and Abbie Smith
We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low “frugality”) and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Crime and Corruption; Governance Compliance; Financial Reporting; Organizational Culture
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  • December 2016
  • Article

The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales, Revisited

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf
Even as we approach the twentieth anniversary of widespread file sharing, its impact on the sale of copyrighted material remains in dispute. We contributed to this debate with an early study, “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” that was... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Sales; Retail Industry; Music Industry
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  • March 2006
  • Module Note

Exchange Rates and Global Markets

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes the first module of the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. This introductory module focuses on the concepts and skills that students need throughout a course on international finance: a familiarity with exchange rates and associated... View Details
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Currency Exchange Rate; Globalized Markets and Industries; International Finance; Teaching; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
    • Web

    Case Method Project

    working with the Case Method Project? Connect to other educators in our network and download case materials via ShareVault . For Prospective Partners Interested in learning more about the Case Method Project? Find out how to bring the... View Details
    • 22 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22, 2008

      Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from submitting policy to a strict... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations

    By: Linda W. Chang and Edward H. Chang
    Anonymization of job applicant resumes is a recommended strategy to increase diversity in organizations, but large-scale tests have shown mixed results. We consider decision-makers’ social dominance orientation (SDO), a measure of anti-egalitarianism/endorsement of... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Rank and Position
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    • October 2018
    • Case

    The Proxy Fight at ADP

    By: Robin Greenwood and E. Scott Mayfield
    In July 2017, shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) surged 12% following a report that the activist investor Bill Ackman had acquired a sizable stake in the company and planned to nominate his own slate of directors at the company’s annual meeting in... View Details
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    • February 2014
    • Article

    Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

    By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman
    We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics
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      Building foundations for leaders' development through the personalization of management learning.

      Many MBA and executive education courses claim to "transform" managers into leaders. This study focuses on what it takes for management education to deliver on that promise and truly foster the transformational learning that enables leadership... View Details
      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      Operating Officer, Mantel Richard Needham (MBA 2002) , Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems Carmichael Roberts , Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures; Cofounder & Managing Partner, Material Impact This session will allow... View Details
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      Innovations in Logistics: The Impact of Channel Coordination

      By: Janice H. Hammond
      Roy D. Shapiro (with Janice H. Hammond and Marshall L. Fisher) is studying innovative systems and management approaches that integrate and coordinate material and information flows through the supply chain so as to reduce or eliminate the redundant activities that tend... View Details
      • December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
      • Case

      W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
      A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
      Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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        John A. Quelch

        John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
        • 27 Sep 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

        • 2020
        • Working Paper

        Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding

        By: Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon and Maria Roche
        Production of scientific knowledge is core to civilizational advancement in economic and material wellbeing of societies. Despite its fundamental importance, however, a systematic effort to quantitatively study the factors underlying scientific production, particularly... View Details
        Keywords: Funding; Science; Knowledge; Research; Information Management; Resource Allocation
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        • January 2021
        • Case

        Aster DM Healthcare: Budgeting for a Crisis

        By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein
        In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Judgments; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Budgets and Budgeting; Health Pandemics; Health Industry; Asia; India; United Arab Emirates; Dubai
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