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- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Winner of a Simon Kuznets Fellowship, Outstanding Undergraduate in Economics, Penn Institute for Economic Research, 2000. 1999 Josh Lerner : Named a Faculty Research Fellow in the Corporate Finance Program at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf A View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Robin Greenwood | About
Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. Robin's research is in behavioral and institutional finance, with a particular focus on "macro-level"... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke seeks to increase capacity building, screening, referral, and management of NCDs across India and includes community-based outreach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26
that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
cited in the paper. The problem is particularly severe in retail chains: According to the 2008 National Retail Security Survey, inventory-related employee theft contributed to a loss of $15.9 billion. Intrigued by the size and scale of... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Civil rights movement gain strength Antiwar sentiment divides electorate FDA approves oral contraceptive pill Influence: High 70 1970 s 19 National Organization for Women mobilizes for Equal Rights Amendment Roe... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52998 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Buying Time Promotes Happiness By: Whillans, Ashley V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly traded corporations in Brazil, looking at the effects of equity purchases by the National Bank for Economic and Social... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
while their core platform continues to serve the nation and globally, with over 10,000 unique visitors a month. What background do Climate Circle founders have? As you can begin to see from the founders I’ve regaled you with, Climate... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors. BWH named McArthur a Lifetime Trustee, and also established the John H. McArthur Fellowships in Medicine and Management. In... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
others as you would have them serve you." When he announced his plans to step down, McDermott reminded his colleagues, "We've made customer service our primary goal, and we've encouraged other corporations to do the same." A year later,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of... Edward H. Chang Assistant Professor of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
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Rafaella Sadun | About
School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in View Details