end of life care - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future

Most importantly, I did not feel pressure to alter my career goals to be able to repay my student loans. Don’t get me wrong. Attending HBS requires a substantial financial commitment, and it is a decision to be made only after careful... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without controversy. While... View Details

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

prudent care and self-denying life he slowly added to his well-earned wealth. . . . He was unto the very last a man of rare and simplest modesty.” [5] Emanuel Lehman, who died... View Details

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

send a signal that, not only do you care about the time workers spend on productive tasks,” Whillans says, “but also that you care about the quality of their View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

08 Mar 2022
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Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

women’s self-perception and performance." Ultimately, women end up holding back during discussions about topics considered to be masculine even when they are the most knowledgeable group members, not only diminishing their own performance... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

of our founding members; Bart Rubenstein (MBA 1979); Raul Companioni (MBA 1980); Bob Anderson (MBA 1982); Jim Savage (MBA 1977); Paul Williamson (MBA 1983); and Phil Kanner, life partner View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

Negativity spreads faster than positivity online, and news organizations at both ends of the political spectrum are leveraging this tendency on Twitter, according to a new study. To test whether the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Koehn discovered, Walker had lived an entrepreneurial life that was dramatic and deeply complex on many levels. "I think much of Walker's business model and her animating vision is a product View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

sometimes through their own sacrifices. So here I am, proud of where I come from and proud of where I am going. Abi Chen, Class of 2023 I grew up in the restaurant industry. To... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of US government bond returns. 2014 Working Paper Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis By: Bo Becker... View Details

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

alums, I think that we've been on a path often for status or success or achievement. And we never really step back and look at whether those things are correlating with our happiness. So there are a lot of sessions this weekend at reunion... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

individuals responsible for the actual purchase decision do not want to absorb the career risk of overpaying. In our personal lives, if we overpay for a product, we suffer some marginal consequence. In business, it can literally View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

employers’ past transgressions. Generational factors and burnout Leaders must realize that their workers are their greatest assets in their quest to achieve institutional goals. Instead of paying lip service to View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Chris Aguemon

think growing up, I always thought leadership was foremost about taking charge of a situation and that the strongest should lead. The reality is that leadership is foremost about service to others alongside a willingness to continue to... View Details

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

marriage market, this study provides timely and compelling empirical evidence of the unintended consequences on later life outcomes of sex selection in India. Download working... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Drop Everything, Read This

Hadley Vlahos, a hospice nurse. The book offers a poignant glimpse into her encounters with individuals nearing the end of their lives and the families accompanying them. Vlahos’s experiences are compelling... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

these two additional measurements, they may end up with trousers that fit them better. For retailers, the goal is to devise measures that capture the variability in people’s preferences well enough, while minimizing the number View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

10 May 2019
Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

least temporarily) having them on hand during your finals or when you are looking for your internship or post-MBA job is very helpful. My mom was a key part of my success at HBS – I would have never done well in my finals and job search... View Details

Portrait Project

Katie Rowe

quickly readmitted—“grrr.” The hospital is over capacity, so our postoperative patient spends a night in the post-procedure unit and becomes delirious—“grrr.” A family agonizes over decisions about their father’s care because no one is... View Details

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