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- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C., by Assistant Secretary of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
a friend likes a brand, in the offline sense. Taken together, five experiments and two meta-analyses (N > 14,000) suggest that turning “liking” into improved brand attitudes and increased purchasing by either consumers or their friends... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, was a driving force in PELP's creation. He stresses that raising educational outcomes across the board is at the heart of the initiative's mission. "The challenge is to build great... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five identified decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
to regain its credibility by making significant changes in its outlook and practices. Hilsinger examines five key areas of scripture, about which he feels church dogmas are particularly bothersome or confusing to people in today’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
his residence on campus. The dinner consisted of a small gathering of about five foreign students including myself and the Dean. The dinner made me more at ease about HBS, but more importantly, made me feel like I mattered because someone... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
in wind and solar power generation and is committed to driving the transition to a decarbonized energy future. As one of the top five largest capital deployers in the U.S., NextEra has been a driving force... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
authors of What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success spent five years analyzing two hundred well-known and popular business practices to tell you what really works (and, surprisingly, what does not) to get and keep... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
headlines had heralded the city’s resurgence against a backdrop of dilapidated houses, images now so clichéd as to be their own banal genre—“ruin porn.” But those comebacks never lasted long enough. This moment is different, Cummings says. Cummings lists the same View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various academic institutions. It is currently taught at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Theory, it's all about the pushes and pulls, the forces that drive people away from one thing and towards another, aligning sufficiently so that it overcomes the anxieties of the new solution and the habits of the present. And so we first... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016
is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
investor), was interested in investing in entrepreneurship in the aging sector as his “third act.” The duo combined forces and launched Primetime Partners last summer. Primetime’s $50 million venture fund currently has 10 companies in its... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
first order. With that said, life does not always progress along smooth, straight lines, as these outtakes from candid interviews show. The texture of experience is far more complex, multifaceted, human, and interesting. These five... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the public that business is a force for good and is fundamental to societal progress by creating jobs,... View Details