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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

The Shape of Things to Come

communities that are still very rooted in their local systems and are likely to remain rooted in their systems. How has HBX—the School’s online learning platform—impacted the way that you think about education? FO: We think online View Details
Keywords: HBX; CORe; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Where Are They Now?

systems from Purdue. He joined the HBS faculty in 1976 and helped build the School’s curriculum in the nascent area of computer-based technology. With a few savvy, prescient students, he launched the Computer Industry and Technology Club... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 14 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

community center. Such projects are good for team building and may augment limited community budgets, even build new relationships, but they don't change the education system or strengthen economic prospects... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Portrait Project

Arielle Loeb

I want whatever I do to make my socks go up and down. It's like cartoon characters: when they get excited or see something they love, their socks go up and down. I want to find such a job, whether it's selling Cheerios, doing something to improve the View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device companies, health information technology, venture capital and private equity). Educational Objectives This course will help students develop the... View Details
  • Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

via LinkedIn Print Share via email Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with... View Details
  • Web

Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details
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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2014
  • Blog Post

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC

system in future.” We met with Jacob Cohen, MPP/MBA 2016, at his internship with the New York City Department of Education (DOE), between meetings he had scheduled with staff throughout the organization.DOE... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Wyss Gift Sets Harvard Record

disease-reprogramming technologies, which will provide a deeper understanding of living systems and will lead to more efficient bio-inspired ways of creating a more sustainable world. View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Decisions through the Ages

criticism about its education system that emphasizes rote memorization,” USA Today reported (February 25, 2009). Titled Problem Solving 101, it became a best-selling business book and is now available in... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Portrait Project

Karina Rodriguez

finest institutions, but I very easily could not have ended up here. Several of my peers growing up were brilliant. Yet somewhere along the path towards our high school diplomas, they fell through the cracks of our public education... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

strategy and detail, much of Communist China's first Five-Year Plan had been on Nationalist China's drawing boards. “In the first half of the twentieth century, China developed one of the more dynamic systems of higher View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

how to dismantle systemic racism.  If we choose to, and are able to, we have to go through personal education just like everybody else. Here are a couple ways we learn:  1. We experience direct/indirect... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

and TripAdvisor contain hundreds of millions of consumer reviews; online marketplaces also rely on reputation systems to facilitate trust between strangers. Economists help companies design reputation systems, “focusing on understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Education
  • December 2009
  • Article

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Secondary Education; Marketplace Matching; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Balance and Stability
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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

the last quarter century, not only in terms of entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Down the Memory Chute

even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons