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1.5 Attendance | MBA
documentation. Excused Recruiting Absences When there is a recruiting need that cannot be accommodated outside of class or on an Open Day, students may take Excused Recruiting Absences, which are valid for most recruiting activities related to View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
out of HBS after one year to take a job on Wall Street, the Frenchman became, arguably, the most influential and popular professor at HBS. Over three generations, Doriot taught thousands of students, many of whom went on to become... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income populations on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
health-economics literature has done a better job documenting consumer-choice mistakes in insurance and treatment choices than explaining why those mistakes occur, it is clear that we should not ignore these mistakes in our analyses. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding model for small investors to access commercial real estate in Colombia and then tests the model in the United States. U.S. regulations, starting with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
back—relying on a School maxim that is nearly 90 years old. Chao Center construction (Architects of Group Genius) Bricks and Books HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien is the person charged with coordinating the School’s campus plan, a daunting View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
(Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007) Abstract This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
document the dysfunctional role of the airlines in weakening airline security throughout the '90s and into the twenty-first century. We also show the dysfunctional role of the lead auditing firms in keeping auditor independence from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
and the participating organization. Approximately one-third of program alumni are now permanent hires of the organization, one-third are at a similar organization, and one-third have gone on to pursue a position in the private sector. “My View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies. In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
worse. And I just, really believed that entrepreneurship and job creation was one path to creating hope and opportunity. And that was something I really wanted to learn about and be able to talk about. And so, I really went on a flyer to... View Details