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- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
take leaders by surprise. Drawing on his extensive experience building high-performance organizations, Bier has created 20 foundational rituals that make your organization as frictionless as possible, allowing you to scale faster and more... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS
imagine staying posted in one seat while different professors come in and out. Two weeks in, I “got it.” Today, when friends visit campus, I take them to the Section C classroom – my home on campus – the place we laugh, learn, and feel... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way
We've all experienced them, days when we are easily distracted from important work, can't think clearly, and make poor decisions. "I can't get out of my own way today," we say. One antidote might be to break the cycle, step back and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. At the time of the case, Ti-Tech must decide which of four orders to accept, with capacity making it impossible to accept all four. Each order... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in our own best interests. This is as true of health decisions as it is of economic ones. An array of biases, limits on cognition, and motivations lead people... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
core of the traditional bookmakers' business model. The case examines two aspects of the industry: (1) What specific choices did Betfair make to become the dominant betting exchange, winning the competitive battle over Flutter.com? (2) At... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
acquisition is more likely to take place when there is a common venture capital investor linking the acquirer and the target. Finally, we show that long-run post-acquisition abnormal returns are higher for the acquiring firms when the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
rise of German universal banking, and placing students in the decision-making role made them reconsider the myths that often surround historical figures. “What you are doing is writing the Constitution—specifically Article 1, Section 8,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
high-level positions as less desirable yet equally attainable. In Studies 5–7, when faced with the possibility of receiving a promotion at their current place of employment or obtaining a high-power position after graduating from school,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
to rate these securities to the best of their abilities, and Wall Street kept telling them to rate more. They had a sense they were doing something wrong, but they were trying to improve their models as quickly as they could. I don't think they were deliberately... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
so-called impact funds, or funds that hope to create positive social or environmental impact. In Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds, the authors describe anchors as “generally the first investor to View Details
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Press / Media
By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- Blog
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
Bill Gates' How to Avoid a Climate Disaster to Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith. But even grounded books such as The Disposable City by Mario Alejandro Ariza make the challenges seem... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zoe Otedola
thought, walking into an interview at my dream firm. With only five black partners among the 10,000 employees, I did the math. Half a percent. The partners who look like me don’t even represent a whole percent. “Do it for them,” I murmured, as my hand shot up in... View Details
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
graduation, I’ll be moving to Seattle and starting as a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, but no matter where I head off to next, I will always be extremely proud to tout the fact that no, I was never supposed to make it to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
While conceding that songwriters and poets can make a strong case for "I love you," economists know that the three little words that really make the world go around are "supply and demand." This familiar... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 May 2024
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts
had a stint at an autonomous vehicle infrastructure startup. An MBA, he said, was an opportunity to learn a new problem-solving language. “I’ve thought about each step of my life as learning a new language—a dialect and a set of words that allow me to talk to people... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Paul A. Gompers : Winner of the 2020 Journal of Financial Economics First Place Jensen Prize for “How Do Venture Capitalists View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, she wonders whether the company is the right place for her. Should she meet with the CEO to share her experience, or continue to conceal her sexual orientation while... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
into a bigger social conversation and still make it relevant to the brand?” Forgetting that on the Web, consumers control your brand With traditional marketing, brand managers took time to carefully craft messages View Details