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- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
A majority of commuters admit to multitasking on the road, including texting and reading emails, according to new research that reveals the widespread extent of distracted driving. About 87 percent of commuters are engaged in at least one... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
or fear that they or their loved ones will, yet 38 percent felt it is never acceptable to speak about their experiences of bias at their companies. All that hushing of the topic can make African American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
(both MBA 2015) heard from Keith Alaniz, a fellow officer stationed in Afghanistan, about a farmer there who was concerned about having too few markets for the saffron he was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
Baker Professor of Administration; Dean of the Faculty 9:00 p.m. Bus transportation from HBS to the Charles Hotel 9:00–11:00 p.m. Night @ Noir Post-dinner off-campus reception for attendees to continue socializing and networking. *Please... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
gears. Those little explanations help people wrap their heads around these recommendations,” Yeomans says. “The more businesses can do to explain how these systems work, the more likely people are to trust them and accept them.” And for a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
government-introduced business lending and corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the classic lender-of-last-resort thinking, the authors argue that an effective policy response to the pandemic will require the government... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
Photographed by Webb Chappell In March 2010, the 1787 drafting of the United States Constitution became breaking news. The members of the Texas State Board of Education had convened in Austin to review the state’s history and other social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
passionate about the notion that business could be a force for good. Within a few decades, many of the success stories were acquired by large corporations (L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Colgate-Palmolive, and Amazon, in the case of the companies... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
provided by us willingly.” George Yurieff put it this way: “If you are concerned about your privacy and want to somehow protect yourself to some extent, start paying for services which you want to use stop... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your business and budget Identify... View Details
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
activity. Q: What do you think Adam Smith's advice to business leaders would be concerning corporate ethics given what he writes about trust? A: This is a great question. Smith believed that there were... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
confer. At the bottom of the value stick, employee WTS is the lowest compensation a person is willing to accept for performing a particular type of work. Pay an employee less than his WTS, and he will walk away from the job. As with WTP,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I took “Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact,” taught by Professors Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, that I had a chance to learn about what impact investing was and understand how big the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
"Second, to explore the organizational constraints and resistance to an open-data approach. All agencies will have issues, of course, about making data available, because historically they may have not. "Third, to probe issues... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
restaurants were created equal. Chain restaurants, in particular, were largely unaffected by the ratings, while the greatest effect was shown for independent restaurants. That makes sense according to economic theory, says Luca, since diners presumably already have... View Details
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
large part to their limited conceptions of gender. The fourth frame offers a conceptual leap from thinking about gender as an individual characteristic to thinking about it as a central organizing feature of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
vocal. Let the gays buy a damn cake. At the end of the day love wins.” Brian Ventura (he/him), Class of 2022 “I came out to my parents the fall of my first year of college. My parents responded with acceptance and fear. My mother in... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
of individual investors and 30 percent of institutional investors appear to be more inertial than logical. They take the default option, passively accepting the shares offered as consideration in stock mergers and acquisitions. In... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna