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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

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OPM Renew

discover a living and learning environment expressly designed for executive education. Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols Admissions Criteria and Process We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available... View Details

14 Aug 2023
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Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

Can you tell us about your background, including your pre-MBA industry and role? I am a joint degree MBA/MPP (Masters in Public Policy) candidate at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. I graduated summa cum... View Details

24 Mar 2023
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Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program

am I still eligible to apply to HBS through the 2+2 process? Yes. There are no minimum or maximum requirements for the length of time spent working toward your bachelor's degree. You can apply to HBS through the 2+2 program as long as you're in the final year of... View Details

04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

conducted experiments online, telling participants the makeup of a board of directors, as well as the identity of a departing board member, and asking them to recommend a replacement from a list of available candidates of different races... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Apr 2017
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Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

working paper Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services by María R. Ibáñez, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School; Jonathan R. Clark , an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

fish become extinct. If elected, I will do everything possible to enact an across-the-board fifteen percent tax reduction. Undoubtedly, some of these positions appeal to you more than others. Some you simply do not like. Now consider the ones you like best. What is... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

2002
Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy

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04 Dec 2014
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The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung & Lingling Zhang

11 Jun 2008
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Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

Keywords: by Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

June 2023
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The Business of Campaigns

By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin

In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States

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22 Mar 2024
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Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

Hoffmann, a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and Yanuo Zhou, a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. To quantify the dollar value... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

Who do we interview? Faculty members from Harvard Business School lead the project. They take an active role in identifying interview candidates in collaboration with the School’s Global Research Centers and the MBA community. Faculty... View Details

15 Nov 2022
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Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

unethical behavior when he was a presidential candidate but who publicly remained silent after President Trump exhorted a mob to breach the US Capitol building. “Graham and McConnell were never true partners with Trump the way that Steve... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

recommend approaching early-days hiring: First 20-30 employees. If you have inexperienced managers, review candidate resumes together with them and establish selection guidelines for what qualifies a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

04 Jun 2024
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Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, teamed up with HBS doctoral candidate Ta-Wei Huang to discuss their advice for businesses and their recent research about this rapidly changing landscape. This interview has been edited for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

07 Feb 2017
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The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

asked whether they would hire that individual. Would you hire a passionate candidate over an emotional one? Source: Courtesy of Elizabeth Baily Wolf The results showed that 61.5 percent of passionate interviewees were hired... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Myth Busting: Financial Aid for 2+2 Students

Aid as Traditional MBA Candidates Rest assured, as a 2+2 admit, you are still eligible for all the same need-based funding as a traditional candidate. Roughly 50% of our students receive financial assistance in the form of need-based... View Details

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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