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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio , Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness result in broader... View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
political process.(including Marco’s comment that “political campaign financing is a related issue”). Those proposing remedies implicitly seemed to agree with RCW’s comment that, “Historic thinking seems to be: ‘It will all work itself out for the best somehow. Let... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
certain subset of men—white, middle class professionals—or consider how this might not only limit who progresses but also constrain our very sense of what organizations are and what they can accomplish. This aspect of the "white male power structure" is View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
probably what I’d do, too. But my sister had a different idea for my future. She pushed me to go to college instead—and I listened—which is how I ended up studying accounting at Boston College. But even though I was on a path different from my father’s, there were... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
because of caregiving needs, the costs could be significant. Add in wasted investments in ineffective or underused benefits and this hidden crisis becomes clear, Fuller says. Building a “care culture” Caregiving has long been an invisible... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
Many human vices spring from this reflex. We postpone routine dental checkups because of the cost and inconvenience and the largely invisible long-term gain. In the same way, auditors may hesitate to issue critical audit reports because... View Details
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Seeing Things Others Don’t
genius is arguably the best fund manager of our time.” A contrarian who likes to uncover and then make big bets on emerging trends invisible to everyone else, Heebner said he feels most confident “when everyone else thinks I’m nuts.” His... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes. “These are people who are visible to drive our economy, but who are View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- Portrait Project
Kristen Forecki
Kindness changed my life. As an insecure fifteen-year-old, I felt invisible in the chorus of a summer-theatre program, until an assistant director took me aside to offer thoughtful words of encouragement. When she surprised me by thanking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth... View Details
- Portrait Project
Akash Gupta
wouldn’t be seeing Mom again. I thought that she would eventually come back, not knowing that her inability to pay rent was the result of years spent fighting an invisible battle. Only later did I find out that her steady decline into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
leaders’ public statements repudiating these bills, a charge led by Black business leaders; increased violence against Asian Americans, particularly older women, but also increased visibility for a minority that has long remained View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
at Brooke High School in Boston.” Must read: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez Must eat: “Tucson has so many unique dishes. One is called a Sonoran hot dog. It’s a hot dog wrapped in bacon,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Portrait Project
Shahar Ziv
“I want to beat up everyone who speaks English!” As a 3-year-old freshly transplanted to the US, my frustrations with not knowing the language were palpable. Watching from behind an invisible barrier as others played in the schoolyard... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
regulations, domestic content requirements, anti-dumping rules, and, if necessary, even selective tariffs to protect industries and workers. In other words, something far short of what we generally define as free trade or the invisible... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community
comfortable sharing that they don’t have much disposable income.” Fetter adds, “Socioeconomic status is such a salient and stressful part of many people’s lives, although there’s not a lot of open conversation about the topic. There is an View Details