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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Ed Cordell, The Juilliard School Afroza Damji, MassChallenge Kyler Evitt, Year Up Liza Gaylord, Boston Ballet Nina Harstad, Equal Justice Initiative Vi Mai, MBTA Alejandro Molina, White House National... View Details

31 Aug 2015
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How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

about his message What gets lost is the author’s own mixed feelings about single-minded pursuit of profit and his hopes for a humanitarian society in which wealth and power are in balance. “Happiness is more generally and equally diffus’d... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Scope ; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving ; Equality and Inequality ; Education Industry ; Central Asia ; Kazakhstan Citation Educators Purchase Related Groysberg, Boris, and Maxim Pike Harrell. "IQanat: Empowering Rural Youth in... View Details

16 Apr 2001
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Breaking the Code of Change

companies in its own industry. Return on assets, return on equity, return on sales, and sales per employee were all below those of comparison companies in the paper industry. Resolving The Tension Between E And O The arguments for E and O change are View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

20 Aug 2020
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From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu

The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods

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15 Aug 2022
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University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

Today the United States is considered the world leader in higher education. Yet the country could risk losing that top spot, particularly with China opening some of the most innovative educational centers across the globe in recent years, says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

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Harshini Chengareddty

female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my favorites because while I... View Details

28 Feb 2023
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Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons; Sports

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

Conor Sullivan, Investment Director for the Social Outcomes Fund, and Claudia Cheung, Program Director for the Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, shared their experience as HBS recruiting partners and offered insight into building an internship program that offers View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(6) Entertainment (21) Entrepreneurship (290) Environmental Accounting (8) Environmental Sustainability (180) Equality and Inequality (44) Equity (25) Ethics (172) Ethnicity (8) Executive Compensation (13) Executive Education (11)... View Details

07 Jul 2019
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Walmart's Workforce of the Future

executives made it clear that Walmart was equally committed to the complex, costly effort required to train its human workers. “I want to be clear that we don’t believe technology is the answer to everything,” McMillon stated in a 2017... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Difference This course will teach you the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Assets equals... View Details

02 Jan 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Should Businesses Take a Stand on Societal Issues?

Keywords: Re: Hubert Joly

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Christina Byrd

proud of working on Uber’s inaugural fair pay/equal pay analyses – we made sure we were paying men and women, black and white, the same pay for the same performance. I became the go-to equal pay person.” Expanding her “language” skills... View Details

10 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

11 Apr 2016
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Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

Montgomery equally stresses the importance of recognizing how a strategist lives and leads. To that end, in the book she cites not only economic gurus, such as Joseph Schumpeter, but also philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, military theorist... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2011
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Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

and actual behavior, according to the authors. The rapidly developing field of behavioral ethics has described a decision-making process whereby we recognize what we should do—give equal weight to job candidates of all races, for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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