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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“launching pad” for students just starting to explore interests in social impact across multiple sectors, or for students with deep experience in the space looking to meet like-minded peers. Social Enterprise Conference An annual two-day... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
LinkedIn’s People You May Know (PYMK) feature, which uses an algorithm to suggest new connections to members. LinkedIn constantly improves the algorithm by introducing new versions and testing them using randomized experiments for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
only Mar 26 26 Mar 2025 Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Seminar Sherry Wu, UCLA - Anderson School of Management The Global Impact of Local Group Participation: Field Experiments on Work and Civic... View Details
- 26 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
however, have been completely unexpected. There are the small things: falling in love with Argentina, my FIELD 2 location; observing a classmate experience the most romantic proposal I’ve ever seen; seeing... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was to business,” adds Johnson,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism
seemed to neatly divide politics and markets, states and economies. "The new history of American capitalism targets the lived experience of people and groups as they assimilate—and reshape—the political economy they engage" The... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
debate depending on who is doing the opining. Over the years, Britannica has handled this uncertainty by seeking out the most distinguished experts in their fields in an attempt to provide a sober analysis on topics; while Wikipedia has... View Details
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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care
Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani More Health Care Research MBA Courses Lab to Market: View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
http://hbr.org/2012/09/will-working-mothers-take-your-company-to-court/ar/1 Working PapersColocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors:Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
produce daily. Tisch held a conference call with her operations chiefs at 5 a.m., and by 8 a.m. she was on the phone with Mayor Eric Adams while parked outside a DSNY facility. Striding into a garage the size of a football field to... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games (http://sites.google.com/site/extformpredcomp/): one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
PublicationsIn Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization Authors:Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski Publication:Research in Sociology of Work Abstract Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
with a warm communication style, both in a field experiment (Study 2) and in a laboratory experiment (Study 3). This was driven by the fact that offers delivered in tough... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Ferriola Syracuse High School Syracuse, UT HI Ian Ferris Waipahu High School Waipau, HI Subjects: Participation in Democracy, Political Science NY Jennie Ferry Brooklyn Technical High School New York, NY TN Scott Field Blyth-Templeton... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
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What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
sends them into the field to help distribute glasses to children in need. The departing team member went to a school in a tough neighborhood in the Bronx to present a new pair of eyeglasses to an eighth grader with severely impaired... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of... View Details