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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
segments and relevant metrics and incentives. Additionally, when market lifecycles are shorter, you must reconstruct sales models more often, and this must be done while the ship is under full sail in an ocean where you don't control the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
credit constraints, and I find no imbalance in observable characteristics between treatment and control groups. These findings strongly suggest social safety nets have spillover benefits on the supply of firms. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
experiences across their careers. We sought to understand what kinds of harassment they experienced and how it affected them, as well as what organizational features were associated with more or less sexual misconduct. This brief report... View Details
- Profile
Mireya Iglesias Ayala
a masterful literary work, ensures that our experiences in the dynamic sections and moments of introspection contribute to our evolution as future leaders. Just as readers immerse themselves in the plot with curiosity, our journey at HBS... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based examples brought to life by industry-leading companies, including Ace Ticket, The New York Times, Penguin Random House, Amgen,... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
students. Following extensive experimentation, HBS launched the academic year with new hybrid classrooms that could seat up to 25 students in person and the rest remote, optimizing the experience for both groups through the addition of... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
"subjective sense of power," when someone believes they have control over others, and actual power, when someone has formal authority over how resources are allocated or how decisions are made. The two often go hand in hand, but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
often pushes us in the wrong direction toward something that is fundamentally familiar and comfortable. Difference is not that. You need curiosity and courage to understand something differently and to learn from it. In addition, sometimes what feeds that instinct is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
worked in consulting between Dubai and Paris where I helped utilities and infrastructure funds on their energy transition. I got to experience the evolution of Europe towards clean energy. After a few years, I decided it was time for a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
rather than burying them in fine print, makes them less likely to be broken; 4) Should we make our algorithms discrimination aware? To ensure fairness, designers need to track how race or gender affects the user experience and set... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
more experience with credit cards and thus could use the trade-off information productively. With more data to inform their decisions, these customers went on to spend 19 percent more each month and defect 34 percent less during the first... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business Change and Adaptation BIO The environment needs fixing — but by whom? At the onset of the COVID pandemic, a narrative emerged that, as we would pass through the experience of it “everything would change,” this without much... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
his important pieces came out of some experiments with unusual tools; he wasn't trying to do a piece of work, he was just trying out the unfamiliar tools, and something interesting happened. Another, a potter, showed me how he would... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
remain after controlling for a large number of observable factors, including the experience of the writer, the agent, and the identity of the studio. “These are big differences, “ says Luo. “It shows that... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Accenture). He became a partner in 1976, specializing in the development of financial control and operating systems in retail and banking industries. In 1985, Gates began to develop commercial and residential real estate. His first... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
24 papers in Colorado was structured to keep control in local hands? We set up the Colorado News Conservancy as a public benefit corporation. We earmarked a majority of shares to be eventually fully locally owned. The Conservancy is... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
carefully, relying heavily on his own deep knowledge and cumulative experience of the past. This seemed very powerful to me and served as a kind of miner's headlamp for a young scholar. A third aspect of Al's legacy is that he was an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne