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- 18 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
A Peek Inside Peek Weekend
about – at a time when they’re naturally thinking about the next steps in their lives. Last year Peek Weekend expanded to include men and women, specifically those with a STEM or family business background. However, there was still a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
like there was a unique sense of camaraderie among the companies that stems from a unified purpose. 3. More than ever, business has a crucial role to play in the fight against climate change. Of course, a large focus of the conference was... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
behavior on the part of government contractors and to keep a portion of any resulting settlement. Boeing, for example, has paid more than $40 million in settlements stemming from False Claim Act cases in the past five years. A detailed... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
banking. There are three reasons why. First, many of the problems innovators are trying to solve are focused on gaps in banking services, while many of the challenges these innovators face stem from the fact that they are not banks.... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), founder of Nix, a startup that is developing a single-use, wearable sensor to determine a person’s real-time hydration status, says that this stems directly from the risky nature of venture capital. (Unger... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
The Prosperity Project, a nonprofit established during the pandemic to specifically work to stem the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on women, aims to provide Canadian women with advocacy, mentoring, and resources, while also conducting... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
customers to behave differently. When we observe this happening in the field, we seek to identify what factors are driving the behavior—whether they stem from the customer or firm side of the encounter—isolate their respective effects,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
that what sets humans apart from animal or artificial intelligence is the empathy that stems from an awareness of the life cycle and of human mortality. Panelist Ray Kurzweil of Kurzweil Technologies declared that in the coming decades,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
share of female candidates from major political parties in the subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important margin in India where a substantial number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
in Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how linguistic complexity affects the capital market reaction to information disclosures. We define linguistic complexity as the use of non-plain English... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
parties in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell jointly announced that the four U.S. lawsuits stemming from the execution of the Ogoni Nine in 1995 had been settled. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310038-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
private sector, for one, do more. “There is a responsibility, particularly in a global economy, for corporations to invest in educating children around the world,” she says. “A lot of the insecurity in the world stems from populations... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
per hour until May 2, provided up to 30 days paid sick leave for people over 65, and gave one-time bonuses to 20,000 hourly store team leads. These corporate leaders and many others like them are responding to President Trump’s March 13 call to unleash Corporate... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
to track disease resistance. Syngenta uses automation and AI across the greenhouse. In addition to using AI for climate control, they also collect copious amounts of data (such as fruit size, number of leaves, stem size, etc.). Syngenta... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Note on Human Behavior: Character and Situation Harvard Business School Note 404-091 When we think of human behavior, especially from a moral perspective, we are often drawn to explanations that rest on character. In simple terms, we conclude that virtuous behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been scaling down and temporarily closing as consumers stay home... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
ignoring—advice from others. Across six studies, we find that advisors interpersonally penalize those who ignore their advice. This effect stems from both harsher perceptions of the advice seeker as well as a decrease in advisors’ sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken