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- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
the circle of life and the little control I have over my parents’ happiness. In all these moments, I am proud of who I am. Rick Lacerda (he/him/his), Class of 2023 I spent my whole childhood preparing for coming out. I suppressed my... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Lifelong Financial Security for “Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities” ( The Review of Financial Studies , 2022) with Shan Ge and Johnny Tang. Benjamin C. Esty : Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Finance,... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
objectives. Highlights Making Tough Choices Performing the X-Test Using Control Systems Interactively Show Hide Details Modules Managing the Tensions of Strategy Execution Aligning Job Design to Strategy... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
making more explicit business arguments for IT in the context of senior leadership meetings, and inviting the CEO and partners into important, risk trade-off decisions. An important lesson Barton learns over the course of the novel, after rashly seizing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
stifling differentiation, provide a stable platform to build on and offer new ways of differentiating, either by cost, structure, product, or service. Just as literacy stimulated innovation, so do open systems and grids. Outsourcing the... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services
compute cluster as well as details for doing so effectively. Guidelines for Choosing Resources The HBSGrid's collection of compute nodes and servers are all coordinated by the software system Load Sharing Facility, otherwise known as LSF... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Serguei Netessine. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Honorable Mention for the Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and the Danaher case helps me... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
ActionAid face this challenge. They have complex theories of change, complex operational strategies, and limited control over their environments. Ebrahim suggests that "it is more important for them to have learning View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
underrepresented communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, executives worked to continue these efforts, despite supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and erratic consumer spending. Beyond the moral imperatives of confronting View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
Gallani, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. How much those systems spur employees, however, may depend on how fair employees perceive them to be. “We have a tendency to attribute... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details
- December 2010
- Case
Financing Higher Education in Australia
By: David A. Moss and Stephanie Lo
Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Higher Education; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Education Industry; Australia
Moss, David A., and Stephanie Lo. "Financing Higher Education in Australia." Harvard Business School Case 711-047, December 2010.
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: Free and open source... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
voiced about the term competitiveness more broadly already more than 15 years ago (Krugman, 1994). As an alternative, the note outlines a growth approach in which exports are a diagnostic instrument and the associated policies focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
number of instances in which leader behaviors could have affected employees' feelings of autonomy in the work. For example, people whose team leaders are always hovering around to closely monitor their progress are more likely to feel that they have little View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
attend college at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and I enjoyed the mix of the liberal arts, inquiry-based learning, and specialized accounting & information systems instruction. What were you doing before grad school and what led... View Details
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
young sons died in a fire that swept through their apartment on the hotel's top floor. Even after receiving the news, he insisted on staying at his post to help direct a response to the ongoing attack. (The battle for control at the Taj... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the... View Details