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21 May 2019
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Meet The Female Physicist Who Sifts Through Corporate Babble For Trades To Beat The Street

11 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

16 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Chad Syverson, Chicago Booth School of Business

2017
Working Paper

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux

In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details

Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design

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27 Apr 2017
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Claudine Gartenberg, NYU Stern School of Business

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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

share. — John Heard on life in Canton in the early 1840s, from his diary, 1891 46 Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities Westerners working at Augustine Heard & Co. and other trading firms formed... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

broad view of business as business.” As a result, Donham in the early 1930s renewed and elaborated his previous calls for business schools to aid in transforming management into a profession — not a mere... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

28 Apr 2015
Blog Post

3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School

to propel innovation forward. They are needed to communicate with technical employees to provide mentorship. They are needed to run highly technical companies and ensure... View Details

08 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School Virtual Tour This exhibition explores representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, View Details

August 2014
Article

Friends in High Places

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy

We demonstrate that personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that control for... View Details

Keywords: Vote Trading; Networks; Legislation; Logrolling; Earmarks; Voting; Government Legislation; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States

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24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

entire CS50 class is built around lengthy coding assignments each week. These assignments were the crux of the course and the highlight. You can't learn to code without solving real problems. How is CS50 different from your typical... View Details

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

make money enough to get away as quickly as possible, and that he had no doubt that I could do better here.” 6 “For all of [the trading companies] which became well established . . . the principle of... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their ... Re: Susan Myers (MBA 1978); Richard Myers (MBA 1984); By: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

1936-1937. The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography: Body By the 1920s, with the rise of national magazines and improved technical reproduction of photographs,... View Details

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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance Growing uncertainty in global financial markets and trade policy is causing disruption globally, with low-income people... INITIATIVES focus on... View Details

07 May 2014
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Hopscotch Acquires Online School Supplies Retailer SkoolShop

Keywords: Retail Trade

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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Morgan and George F. Baker. 1 U.S. Steel Corporation Finance Committee, featuring George F. Baker (third from left) and J.P. Morgan (fifth from left), 1926. Baker Family Papers, Baker Library, Harvard... View Details

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