Distance From Hometown - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads to higher funding View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

2023, what I will remember most is how deeply you connected with one another. When you arrived in Fall 2021, we were slowly emerging from the pandemic. But even testing, masking, and distancing did not stop... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

Baer: From boyhood fan to leader of the franchise. One of Larry Baer’s (MBA 1985) fondest summer memories is of playing in the yard of his boyhood home in San Francisco on Friday afternoons, waiting for his dad to return View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

28 Oct 2024
Blog Post

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

Behind the success of every student’s experience in immersive project-based courses—from visas to travel advisories to detailed itineraries—is the Global Experience Office. Kate Mitkevicius has just arrived in Mumbai after an 18-hour journey View Details

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

employee walks by the clinic for reasons other than vaccination—predicts whether the employee gets vaccinated at the clinic. We also test whether base proximity—the inverse of walking distance from the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2018
News

“A Shout Through Time”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today’s story is a break from our typical in-depth interview format. Today, we’re going to tell a story. It’s a story that starts with a tragic plane crash in... View Details

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as social View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

programs ranging from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. The organization is largely funded on a project basis by groups like the National Science Foundation and the US... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior associate dean for University affairs. Here, he answers... View Details

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

stopped speaking Spanish and, when my parents spoke in our native tongue, I would admonish them the same way my peers taunted me: “This is America, Mom. Speak English!” Through this and other similar acts, I completely distanced myself... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Bjerg’s team suffers total defeat when their glowing blue nexus is shattered. “OK, now I’m going to read out some subs and resubs,” he says, without missing a beat. Each of the nonsensical screen names he reads is that of a viewer who has been watching him play. Bjerg... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

a move she feared would distance her from the creative pursuits she thrived on. At that moment, serendipity struck. An Avon executive called with a job offer too good to pass up. In her mid-20s, Ross left... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings. Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth (n = 42) over 3 years (695 practice-month observations). Practices were... View Details