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- 27 Mar 2025
- HBS Seminar
John Horton, MIT Sloan
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Outdoor Spaces | About
has been built upon as the campus has been expanded over the years. Central to the learning experience are the spaces around campus where staff, faculty, and students gather in between classes, attend meetings, and celebrate at events.... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Events 1ms HBS BEI Events Business and Environment Kickoff : An opportunity to learn about all the business & environment activities at HBS and how you can get involved. (September) BEI Events Page : Keep up to date on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be of service to others.” Both ideals have... View Details
- 20 Nov 2023
Q&A with Current Students
Join this event to connect directly with current HBS students. During this event, current students will speak about their HBS experience as well as answer your questions. This session will be primarily Q&A-based so please come ready with... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
experience working on supply chain challenges in China, doesn’t dispute China’s interest in regaining “their historical hegemony over SE Asia.” However, he stressed the need to recognize “we are in a hyper-connected, radically contingent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA
our MBA program. We understand that an HBS MBA can be a significant financial investment, even with scholarships and outside funding, but we believe this investment pays off over the long run. Why it’s worth it: Transformational View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
not confident, and pessimistic, which potentially leads to mental health issues, and that these feelings could be traced back to the absence of a loving environment when they were a child. A person’s life experience is irreversible, but... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion
have a curated, shared experience with other classmates. Nearly nine months into HBS, I found myself meeting new people and developing new friendships. I realized the beauty of HBS is that relationship building continues forever and I now... View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
some communities experience disproportionate impacts because of existing vulnerabilities, historical patterns of inequity, socioeconomic disparities, and systemic environmental injustices (e.g., redlining).” What criteria were used to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2023
#HBSMixer: College Interns Connect with Harvard Business School
Want to connect with HBS in your internship city? Join us to meet current HBS students and Admissions staff to answer your questions and share more about the student experience at Harvard Business School. This event will give you the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Board of Directors’ Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals
- Research Summary
Overview
I am an ethnographer and field researcher studying how people experience and interpret their work and cultural contexts, as well as how this shapes inequality and organizational outcomes like normative control. I specialize in utilizing in-depth, inductive field... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
How to Choose Among Technologies with Learning Curves: Making Better Investment Decisions
By: Christian Kaps and Arielle Anderer
Learning curves, the fact that technologies improve as a function of cumulative experience or investment, are desirable-think inexpensive solar panels or higher performing semiconductors. But, for firms that need to pick one technology among several candidates, such as... View Details
Keywords: Learning Curve; Technology; Innovation; Batteries; Energy Storage; Sequential Decision Making; TELCO; Exploration; Exploitation; Problems and Challenges; Cost vs Benefits; Technology Adoption; Battery Industry
Kaps, Christian, and Arielle Anderer. "How to Choose Among Technologies with Learning Curves: Making Better Investment Decisions." Working Paper, March 2025.
- May 2021
- Simulation
Customer Compatibility Exercise Application
By: Ryan W. Buell
Customers impose considerable variability on the operating systems of service organizations. They show up when they wish (arrival variability), they ask for different things (request variability), they vary in their willingness and ability to help themselves (effort... View Details
- Article
Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood
By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
Social movements have the potential to effect change in firm decision-making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, led to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood producers working with female writers on new... View Details
Keywords: Gender Inequality; Social Movement; Scandal; Creative Industries; Project Selection; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Film Entertainment; Projects; Change
Luo, Hong, and Laurina Zhang. "Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood." Management Science 68, no. 2 (February 2022): 1278–1296.
- July 2020
- Background Note
Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway
By: Aiyesha Dey
The issue of gender diversity on boards has received increased attention in U.S markets over the past few years. In 2018, California introduced a law which required boards of U.S-listed firms with headquarters in California to include at least one female director by... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Gender; Diversity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Norway; United States
Dey, Aiyesha. "Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway." Harvard Business School Background Note 120-065, July 2020.
- March 2020
- Article
Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction
By: Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel and Laura Huang
Drawing on construal level theory, which suggests that experiencing a communicative audience as proximal rather than distal leads speakers to frame messages more concretely, we examine gender difference in linguistic abstraction. In a meta-analysis of prior studies... View Details
Joshi, Priyanka D., Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel, and Laura Huang. "Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 3 (March 2020): 417–435.
- November 26, 2019
- Article
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 48 (November 26, 2019).
- Spring 2019
- Article
Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations
By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the... View Details
Keywords: Teaming; Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Service Delivery; Knowledge Use and Leverage
Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 346–360.