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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Photo via Vanity Fair Photo via Vanity Fair Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent feature in Vanity Fair details... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. Companies look to hire athletes whose image mirrors their own corporate brand. Sports View Details
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
thirty years. He first sailed to China at the age of sixteen, and later became the sole agent in Canton for Perkins & Co. He became the wealthiest foreign agent in China and for a time served as the American... View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
would come out strong, in fact ties from non–Ivy League schools were just as powerful, the researchers learned. They detail the results and implications in an HBS working paper, "Sell Side School Ties" [PDF]. "Our findings suggest that View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Part Ownership of a Dream
future. “I wanted to shoot for glory,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Flightline’s higher price tag was a risk, but respected Kentucky bloodstock agent David Ingordo had been watching the horse from the very beginning; when he called... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match different agents as well as possible. "Al started... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
just by changing something minor in the onboarding process." Identity Experiments In the field experiment, the researchers divided batches of new call agents into an individual identity group, an organizational identity group, and a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents hired by a public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 AM – 12 PM EST, 25 Jan 2018
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Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks
Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Black History Month | Baker Library
in 1908. Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student Union, Agents of Change examines the... View Details
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
7, 2020 and was built in part from research conducted during Harvard Business School’s 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU) in 2018 (visit Agents of Change website for more information about and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environments, edited by A. Dinar, J. Albiac and J. Sanchez-Soriano. Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics, 2008 Abstract This paper considers environments in which several agents... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
India, for instance, it’s like having access to an agricultural extension agent at any time—at no cost. Most often, any given question that a farmer submits to PAD (by text or voicemail) has been raised before, so a response is pushed... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
on a common set of themes including their development as entrepreneurs, strategies for identifying opportunity, and leadership. Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union Celebrating the 50th... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
Collections) B[ernard] & A[lvin] Soulie Merch[an]ts Ex[change] Brokers &c 84 Bienville May 30 /[18]54 F M C [Free Men of Color], age 45 to 50. Bro[ther]s. Are agents for some large estates. loan money on p[ro]p[ert]y &c. [etc.] Are v[er]y... View Details