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18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

development interests on asset management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance Unit (1986-88); as senior associate dean,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Leemore S. Dafny Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Co-Chair Unit Head, General... View Details

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

relationships. The study offers new ideas for quiet quitters who are contemplating the meaning of happiness and fulfillment amid pandemic burnout. In addition to Norton, the authors include HBS doctoral student Hanne Collins, HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

take the ideas from our MBA social entrepreneurship course, which has been taught at HBS for many years, beyond the walls of the HBS classroom. The book is geared toward students with whom we would not otherwise have the opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

ten years as General Partner at General Atlantic Partners. While at General Atlantic Mr. Cline co-founded Exult and Xchanging, today's leading business process outsourcing companies. Prior to General Atlantic, he was an associate at... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

31 Mar 2008
HBS Case

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

all that changed. HBS associate professor Robert Huckman, professor Gary Pisano, and research associate Virginia Fuller tell that story in "JetBlue Airways: Valentine's Day 2007," a case taught in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

faculty colloquium in May intended to frame the issues for potential curriculum changes at HBS. (To ensure open discussion, comments made during the two colloquia were not for attribution.) For their research project, Datar and Garvin interviewed 30 deans and View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs) at the HBS Rock Center. Read More>>> CELEBRATING ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH AT HBS May is Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. The Asian Affinity Business View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

Events Events Aug 05 Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Boston Organizers: Business and Environment Initiative; MIT Sloan 05 AUG 2025 | HBS Campus Open to HBS and MIT Sloan Alumni and Students Are you an HBS or MIT alum or current MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

1971, feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem spoke to the Harvard Business Women (today’s Women’s Student Association). Boxing champion Muhammad Ali electrified a packed auditorium when he addressed the Harvard College Class of... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

it forces both students and faculty to grapple with questions that don’t really have clear answers,” said Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and senior View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jonas Heese : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Review of Accounting Studies Conference for “Variable Leases Under... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

negatively associated with their departments’ performance. Implications beyond retail and gender While Feldberg’s research focused on a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain, its findings apply to other fields. Women engineering managers,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Marco Di Maggio is Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of business administration in the Finance Unit and a faculty research fellow at the National... View Details

21 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

offer the short-term loans to consumers. And it’s no wonder: Consumers using the payment method often spend more than they would with a credit card, according to new research by Harvard Business School professors Marco Di Maggio and Emily Williams, and HBS doctoral... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

more of workers—and an equivalent commitment to re-skilling and compensation. In the case, Kerr cites Walmart’s investments in wages and training for employees of $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion in 2015 and 2016—part of a move that boosted starting pay for frontline... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Finance - Faculty & Research

distinct beliefs. These groups rely on different information when forming expectations, often hold opposing views – with a 47% correlation in return expectations – and their disagreement is associated with elevated trading volume. This... View Details

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