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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Grant, F. Gino, and D. A. Hoffman Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
billion--but analysts have been disappointed by a share price in the mid-teens. Are RLBOs really the risky, under-performing investment that is claimed? In fact, says Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner, RLBOs generally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
some point.” Release day Old Model: Use videos to build buzz New model: Use videos to make sales When she was working as a digital analyst at Interscope Records before HBS, Gandhi identified a common pattern: Labels would first release a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
given the issue new visibility alongside Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, it raised some eyebrows among investment analysts who asked what sustainability has to do with Google's core business of making the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Folarin Gdabedo-Smith. Though she anticipated her job would be researching and designing policy recommendations, Rewane quickly found herself engaged in the human resources realm, recruiting and building capacity for the organization. “I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an apparently unprofitable activity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
learning, can reorient research about the link between identity-group-based diversity and performance. How to Make Finance Work Authors:Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937-1970 Baker Library Home The... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- Web
Burden Park | About
studied the developing airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
Staff Directory Chelsea Barrett Research Data Acquisition Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: data licensing and vendor relationships, data sourcing and access. Jen Beauregard... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
business & environment opportunities and risks. BEI helps to connect current MBAs with these alumni for learning and careers. We recently spoke with one such alum about his career journey. For the first part of his career, George Hart (MBA 2017) worked as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
order and devour a pepperoni pizza at midnight, try tackling next week’s grocery list instead. Researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth of customer orders... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
decades, is on the auction block. Consumers apparently loved the car more than GM executives, who couldn't figure out how to make much money with it. The same day, Google announced its earnings: In discussing the announcement, analysts... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiations with a potential acquirer's CEO. Instead, we researched who the CEO would turn to regarding acquisitions. Of course, his CFO would be pivotal. Continuing to map backward, we turned up an analyst... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Kyarisiima did a summer internship in a research lab where, she discovered, this sometimes solitary environment didn’t fit her personality. “I wanted more interaction with people, which is often lacking in purely science fields,” she... View Details