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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we empower business leaders to make an impact on the biggest challenges of our time. Together, we are... View Details

19 Jan 2022
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From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

American Art in New York. The role is part of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program, a one-year fellowship that affords new HBS graduates both outsized access to senior leadership and opportunity for transformative View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers. Michael L. Tushman : The Academy of Management Annals (AMA) recognizes particularly impactful papers with the "Decade Award' which is an award for the paper with... View Details

08 Oct 2021
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8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

toward living more authentically and reflect on how transformed my life has become once I chose to accept myself.” Alex Furleigh (he/him), Class of 2022 “Clicking ‘approve’ on a Facebook photo of myself with my LGBTQ+ volleyball league in... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

markets and analyze the impact of market changes 12 hrs Module 2 Strategies for Assessing and Increasing Demand Appreciate how complements and network effects impact demand and evaluate techniques to... View Details

29 Nov 2023
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A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials” ( The Quarterly Journal of Economics , February 2024) with Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, and Heidi Williams. 2024 Amit Goldenberg : Winner of the 2024 Janet Taylor Spence Award for View Details

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

firm's business rather than the scale of the firm's prior lobbying efforts. These results support the existence of significant barriers to entry in the lobbying process. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/DynamicsOfFirmLobbying.pdf The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

write, "Disruption is a positive force. It is the process by which an innovation transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

the prior year. Current use giving—both restricted and unrestricted—provides crucial funding for innovation across the School. Because current use gifts can be spent immediately, they have a significant impact on the net operating surplus... View Details

25 Mar 2019
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The Secret Life of Supply Chains

innovations can cascade and diffuse throughout the economy.” When it comes to semiconductors, for example, the researchers found that the industry now supplies a surprising 65 percent of all industries. With cloud computing services, the number is even higher because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

consistency between instrument, research question, and context. Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1838538 Working PapersGrowth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2015
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Transitioning From the Military to Business School

impactful during my time at HBS is self-reflection. Being surrounded by so many incredibly accomplished people at a place like HBS is a golden ticket to personal growth. I’ve found that my ability to be honest with myself about where I’m... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

the more traditional interest rate and tax channels-suggests new considerations in assessing the impact of government spending on private sector economic activity. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmalloy/pdffiles/envaloy.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. Another developing area of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

07 Apr 2020
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What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

consumers; 71 percent of those surveyed promised that brands and companies that placed their profits before people during the crisis would lose their trust forever. How can brands help during a crisis? Educate the public by transforming... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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