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- 14 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization
talent. Lastly, we will leverage the power of the Adelante Conference, our annual Latinx professional conference that brings together current and future Latino leaders. This will be hosted on-campus on... View Details
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
insurance plan. They are likely to choose a low-deductible plan with a high premium even when there is an option to choose a higher-deductible plan that is ultimately less expensive and fits their medical needs just as well. In fact,... View Details
- February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Phu My Hung
By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic... View Details
Macomber, John, and Dawn H. Lau. "Phu My Hung." Harvard Business School Case 213-098, February 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- 2018
- Introduction
Introduction
BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A. "Introduction." Introduction to Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought, edited by Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, 1–22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Web
Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with whether View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
Investors come in more shapes and sizes than hats and tacos: Angel, VC, limited, corporate, banks, institutional, friends and family—these are just some of the categorizations... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
average annual paycheck of $5.8 million while the average employee earned $42,000, and determined the ratio of CEO compensation to mean employee compensation. He also figured out what he calls the “economic pay ratio” you might expect to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
that person’s role for more people. That might create congestion effects,” he says. “You don’t want the boss overseeing 100 people if they can only spend 5 minutes a day with each person.” Overall, however, the effects of their study point to the outsized View Details
- January 2009
- Journal Article
The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.
By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers
Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Human Capital; Mathematical Methods; India; United States
Desai, Mihir, D. Kapur, J. McHale, and K Rogers. "The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S." Journal of Development Economics 88, no. 1 (January 2009).
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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni
Forge New Connections to Each Other Build and deepen relationships with a powerful global network of alumni who share your values and experiences. Stay connected, collaborate,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
There's an old fable in which a scorpion asks a frog for a piggyback ride across a river. The frog fears getting stung along the way, but the scorpion argues that stinging the frog would be fatally stupid; the frog would die and sink... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
Lane, Jacqueline N., Karim R. Lakhani, and Roberto Fernandez. "Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-066, April 2023. (Accepted by Organization Science.)
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
and partners about their technologies can increase innovation and speed the introduction of new products. Specifically, the study finds evidence that openness—in this case, via the use of open-source... View Details
- November 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?
By: Elie Ofek and Sarah Gulick
In the spring of 2018, Israel was set to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While there was much to rejoice in reaching this milestone, the country’s brand image internationally was far from ideal. Past efforts to impact perceptions of Israel, spearheaded by the Ministry... View Details
Keywords: Branding; Brand Management Of Places; Nation Branding; Brand Positioning; Public Diplomacy; Marketing Communication; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Perception; Change; Israel
Ofek, Elie, and Sarah Gulick. "Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?" Harvard Business School Case 519-006, November 2018. (Revised February 2019.)
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Executive Education - Global
faculty forges powerful alliances with leaders of industry, government, and academia. The groundbreaking research they mine is transformed into breakthrough leadership insights that are delivered in our... View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime Harvard Business School professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell