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- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Photo via Vanity Fair Photo via Vanity Fair Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent feature in Vanity Fair details... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
direction for future research in those countries. In a sense, this data pulls open the black box of boards of directors, shining some sunlight on what happens inside. View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
modesty for all concerned: the rating agencies, the banks, asset managers. And certainly the masters of the debt universe and the Ph.D.’s with their black boxes turned out to be fallible. You can look at... View Details
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
"black box." Peering Into The Black Box In a new working paper written with Adam M. Kleinbaum (HBS DBA'08) of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, titled Inside the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
government agencies and Life magazine, taking intimate photos of regular people, such as families in the segregated South, and celebrities such as boxing great Muhammad Ali alike. “Art is not meant to be in your personal space,” Dean told... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
of an African-American woman by artist Whitfield Lovell. Weathered boxing gloves dangle from the panels. Further along are two pieces by the British photographer David Stewart. Selected from his “Fogeys” series, the first shows a rotund,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
The Equity Network began with a single LinkedIn post. Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Kristina Hu In the summer of 2020, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), then an incoming HBS student, was sitting in her San Francisco home watching the Black... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
business. This includes both those targeting careers in asset management and those interested in learning how to manage effectively their personal wealth, current and future. This course aims at de-mystifying the world of investing as a View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
when she moved to Chicago for a job at Northwestern, the fact that she was the only working mother in her neighborhood led her and her four-year-old son to be stigmatized. Race And Gender Cuddy went on to describe ways in which the rules of mothering are different for... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
wanted to dive into the black box of the firm to ask about management practices, the governance of the business, workplace culture, and more so that I can learn how the collection and intersection of these... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books. In a career that spans more than thirty years, Cuneo has completed seven successful turnarounds at consumer-product companies such as Clairol, Black & Decker, and Remington. He joined Marvel in 1999, just after it emerged... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
are looking forward to when there is a play produced about her creative life!” HBSA of Nigeria Celebrates Star Leaders at Black Tie Gala Close to 300 guests, including many HBS and Harvard alumni as well as top business leaders, converged... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
committing to "the righting of past wrongs." "Africa is extremely poor," Donovan said. "And in South Africa there has been discrimination against blacks — who were left without skills and without an ownership in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
—Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995) Let’s separate the “black box” from the “client interface.” The black box seems at present to be an index fund allocation algorithm. Nothing special here—the robo-interface is... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
beliefs. However, introducing some specificity and clarity to the standards of assessment (Experiment 1) or to the trait’s definition (Experiments 2 and 3) reduces or eliminates this bias in judgment. We find stronger support for a cognitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
misvaluation as explanations for this relation, we analyze the association between our measure of external financing and sell-side analysts' forecasts. Consistent with the misvaluation explanation, our measure of external financing is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to the Middle Ages by Brian Buxton covers the Middle Ages in a new way: quickly, in simple language, and with stories, profiles, interpretations, maps, paintings, and images that make it easy for the layperson to follow. Buxton provides a clear View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically View Details