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30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

last role at the firm, led the initiative to help the firm better serve underrepresented investor demographics, including creating our women’s investor education program. I look forward to staying in touch with the wonderful women I’ve met during my View Details

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

examine the effects of team familiarity and diversity in experience on performance for software development projects. We find the interaction of team familiarity and diversity in experience has a complementary effect on a project being delivered on View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

is happening to you. So that was a very important lesson from her that I remind myself of frequently, courage. Aisha Chaudhary: As Anderson once said, "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." Thank you for listening. Chaudhary:... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Mark Schwartz

Schwartz’s proven record of long-term relationships — he’s been married for 26 years and joined Goldman after earning his third degree from Harvard — he’s taking his time settling into his new career. Noting that many of the organizations... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Profile

Brandon Graves

classroom moment? Entering Aldrich 10, my first-year classroom where I spend many hours with my section, for the first time was one of my favorite HBS experiences. It felt surreal to step into the hallowed room and see my name tag printed... View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

characterized quite often by turbulent situations. When you are negotiating in a turbulent environment, you feel reassured if the entity you are transacting with is likely to be around tomorrow. Otherwise, what’s the point of investing View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2018
Blog Post

8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

and even roast the section. It’s not just 93 - it’s 93+. Gavriel in Section C moved to HBS from Israel – he brought is his kids to pick and carve pumpkins for the first time as part of our Section C Pumpkin Carving event! --- HBS puts 93... View Details

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

Portrait Project

Uzoma Nwagba

"African government? Don't. You must be corrupt or crazy. Or you will fail." Big Mentor always means well. But this time he will be wrong. That classic doomsday narrative will not remain Africa's soundtrack. No, not even in our... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

diversification. In terms of opportunities, the exploitation of primary commodities in countries located far away from the main European markets became far more practical. At the same time new markets were opened by steamships, new ports,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean completing each course module and fully answering questions posed therein by the required deadline. This course also features recommended weekly deadlines to help ensure participants proceed... View Details

Fast Answer

Options: Basics for finding price data

strike price of a put option, the option is said to be out of (in) the money. An “American” option can be exercised at any time up to the expiration date; a “European” option can be exercised only at the expiration... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and Jachimowicz says it should be a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Profile

Enrico Ferrari

Accelerator program. Taking the time to do it right Even with successes under his belt, Enrico still saw investing two years in graduate studies as a necessity. "It takes a lot of energy to run a company. I want to take the View Details

Keywords: Tech

Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

flexible production over time and broadly based across the system. It was from observations such as these that Kent and I started to form the impression that despite all the attention that had already been paid to Toyota, something... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

What does this imply for the B-list? A: Yes. There are many examples of blockbuster movies that did not have any stars that belonged to the A-list at the time it came out. In fact, some of the best-selling movies of all View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

conserving scarce time and attention. Highlights The Benefits of Diagnostic Control Systems Putting the Three Wheels Back Together - Three Wheels of Profit Planning Schematic A Multidimensional Approach to Measurement Harnessing Human... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

in how to spend time as a mother. I took a gap semester in my EC (second) year because I felt I was drowning between classes, the part-time job I wanted to do, and a broken childcare support system (daycare was shortened due to COVID).... View Details

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