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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Dlodlo’s university education, a loss that can still bring Dlodlo to tears. After earning a degree in finance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Dlodlo remained in South Africa, working... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
Jialan Wang and Jeyul Yang of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Benjamin Iverson of Brigham Young University. “The drop in business bankruptcies is particularly striking given reports of widespread permanent business... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Reenen Abstract—We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening." Interviews with racial minority View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
Gompers and research assistant Sophie Wang developed a novel way to determine exactly how much gender diversity influenced performance. Examining reunion books from the small number of universities accounting for the bulk of venture... View Details
- Web
Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
After one minute, he peeled away an 8-by-10-inch print from the negative. A sequence of photographs captured the tense moments as Land posed for his portrait, followed by his visible relief when the first public demonstration of instant... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to redouble its efforts and be totally relentless in its quest to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
has,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe B. Cullen, who coauthored the paper with Ricardo Perez-Truglia of the University of California, Anderson. Some companies have taken steps to break down barriers for women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, is in the heart of basketball country. Yet its record for the 2013/2014 basketball season was a dismal 5–20. The school recruited Jason Polykoff from the University of Pennsylvania’s coaching staff to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
newspaper column, he wrote, “No matter how much feeling of public obligation the executive staff of any corporation might possess, the corporate entity is involved in maximizing short and long run profit .The old yardstick is deadly but... View Details
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New... View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change the social status quo. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he worked in Harlem, teaching in View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
lead during a crisis such as the global economic crisis of 2008-09. I found that many failed to follow seven universal lessons for leading in crisis. I believe the root cause of the recent financial crisis was leaders who practiced... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
to the two largest markets, the US and China. Family, Finance and Philanthropy Anne McClintock, Senior Director of Development, Planned Giving at HBS; Alasdair H. Halliday, Director, University Planned Giving, Harvard View Details
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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014
AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography
Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a concerned View Details