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- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
on my own journey this year with the Black Investment Club and reminded me why I was so determined to get this initiative off the ground before leaving HBS. BIRTH OF AN IDEA In the fall of 2019, during my second year of business school, I... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
supply-demand issues—the need for donated bone marrow and stem cells that is so challenging for patients with diseases like leukemia—and that there were more people in need than there were in supply,” she says. “What was liquid gold, for patients in need, was being... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
sanction of the law. To make this argument, we review the history of two earlier breakthrough technologies—the birth control pill and in-vitro fertilization (IVF)—both of which were developed in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Thus, founder Jack Ma and his management team, who own a little over 9 percent of the company, can still retain control of its destiny. (Meanwhile, although Hong Kong stock market authorities are officially pleased to stay true to their... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
quota structure in some stores, while testing the existent monthly quota in others. “We had to make sure the stores in the control group did not talk to the stores in the treatment group,” Chung says. Two, the chain sold products ranging... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Three days before giving birth to her second daughter, Parul Somani (MBA 2009) felt a lump in her breast. Still unable to walk from her C-section, her husband... View Details
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1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA
Business School regards the following information as "directory information:" Full name Reported date of birth Dates of attendance Class year Digitized image (please note that while Harvard classifies photos and images as directory... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
generate a control group of non-herbal patents that have similar medicinal purposes as our herbal patents through textual matching. Using this framework, we estimate a triple differences equation and find that herbal patents are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
behavior. Professor Norton in the HBS Faculty Band, at right between Professors Alison Woods Brook and Ryan Buell. Photo courtesy Evgenia Eliseeva. Norton’s interest in this area was sparked by his earlier work examining how different cultures deploy rituals for a wide... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India By: Hussam, Reshmaan Abstract—Sex ratios at birth have risen steadily over the last three decades across much of the developing world. Many attribute this rise to improved... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318143-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-455 The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender and is instead driven by beliefs. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54490 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Most leaders view employee... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
high-tech approach to managing information on the soil composition of pastures and the quality and yield of beef from various genetic combinations. Each calf is tagged at birth and tracked through its life cycle. After it's been humanely... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
status quo—but his cure is a government-run system, I gather from hearsay. I agree with the diagnosis, but my cure is, yes, everybody should have health insurance, but they should control it for themselves. It should be run by the people,... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Fonterra to enhance its competitive position. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-453 Novartis: A Transformative Deal When Joe Jimenez became CEO of Swiss-based Novartis in 2010, replacing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel