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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed billions at low interest rates to buy... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
areas like mental health care, dairy farmer subsidies, and the fishing industry, Cai says. “Things that maybe we're not as familiar with. Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different stakeholders that they touch was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
impact on the accounting standards under which the investee firms present their financial information; the only change is in the investor's familiarity with these standards. This suggests that differences in accounting standards affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
He created the sociology of science; terms such as focus group, role model, and self-fulfilling prophecy are all familiar to us because of his work. He's 87 now, a university professor emeritus at Columbia, and a scholar at the Russell... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
firm, therefore, lacks legitimacy and may be looked upon with suspicion by stakeholders. In order to gain legitimacy, a new firm is required to look like existing organizations, which possess legitimacy because of their familiarity to... View Details
- Web
Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
familiarized yourself with our documentation about the cluster. We also highly recommend attending a session of our monthly cluster trainings. As they are the gateway to the cluster for everyone, don't run anything on the login nodes .... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
of value investing? Jay Lorsch: Getting Boards Up to Speed Under the present system of corporate boards, independent part-time directors are not sufficiently familiar with the business — they have to be educated. Boards need better... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
action" instead of the more familiar "corporate social responsibility." Why make this distinction? A: This was a topic of much consideration, both among us and the paper's peer reviewers, some of whom wanted us to use the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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5.1 Community Standards/Disciplinary Process | MBA
Standards, may modify the disciplinary process as circumstances require. Students should familiarize themselves with the General Statement of Conduct in addition to the process described below. Jurisdiction Allegations of minor... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
(conditional) gender gap is largest among faculty members at the highest status institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-014.pdf Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
provides, it forces senior executives to become more familiar with how younger, even entry-level, people think, how they work, and how and what they are consuming. To make it work, senior executives have to make themselves vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
outlook; a willingness and ability to partner; and familiarity with various types of businesses, particularly in the service sector. Too often, they have reflected what GE (and other organizations) needed in the past, not the future. If... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs
people, few of us put as much effort in onboarding those new hires.” As today's workforces become increasingly varied in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced: evolving what is View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
didn’t know. “I realized I wanted to learn more about business strategies and the management side of things and less on the tech side, even though I really loved it,” he says. “They say HBS is transformational, and for me it really was,” he adds. “For one thing, I... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
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Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
assignments. The first, an unskilled position such as a production line worker, sales clerk, or office clerk, familiarized students with supervision issues and customer-employee relations. "Our students find that they are better equipped... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in familiar traditions, it’s also open... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
about. We talk about so many different topics at HBS, but this was the first time solving food insecurity was at the heart of a discussion. “There’s also something unique about having a case discussion surrounding a company you’re View Details
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How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
trusted and familiar source. Sharing your story and anecdotes about how you transitioned from HBS to your company will resonate with students, so don’t hesitate to get personal. Be open to candidates with background in a different... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
for three key reasons: One, they tend to have unusually familiar relationships with their clients, whom they see repeatedly throughout the year. Two, a client sitting still for a haircut is a captive audience. Three, while there is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel