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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be common across developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
accent coaching for non-English speakers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Lakra and I talk about the light bulb moment behind her startup, the economic value of being understood, and the unique powers of immigrants. Courtesy Anada Lakra... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
friends and family members to end discrimination. I graduated from Harvard feeling privileged for having received an incredible education. But unlike most of my classmates, I wasn't a full citizen of this country. Just for being gay, I... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
transactions, products, and customers. Anderson, after graduation in 1995, worked at McKinsey where he got the idea for using time equations to estimate how the capacity demands by a transaction vary based on all the contingencies that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
congratulating me from friends on the East Coast.” Kiran Gandhi, musician, entrepreneur: “I was buying some bananas from a 7/11 in Seoul, South Korea, when the email appeared in my inbox. I was with a dear friend of mine, Elliott Davis, who View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
environment they operated in." 14 Enrollment in his Manufacturing course, Doriot cautioned, entailed a "particular and superior form of responsibilities as businessmen, as citizens," and he urged graduates to "carry on with... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
musician, entrepreneur: “I was buying some bananas from a 7/11 in Seoul, South Korea, when the email appeared in my inbox. I was with a dear friend of mine, Elliott Davis, who graduated from HBS in 2016. He gave me a huge hug and hearty... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
halt. In the summer of 1994 alone, more than 30,000 Cubans fled to the United States via boats and makeshift rafts. Faced with these economic realities, Fidel Castro’s government began some private sector experimentation, including... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
in New Orleans. And it creates an opportunity for someone like Bolden, who doesn't have the education, who hasn't been given the economic opportunities, to still be innovative and to let talent be the great leveler. And that's music. So... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Education.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Bill Kirby is a historian who examines contemporary China's business, economic and political development in an international context. In addition to many books and... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711452-PDF-ENG BlackRock Solutions Kenneth A. Froot and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-082 The BlackRock Solutions case examines the different functions and economics of a global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
to pursue economics and East Asian studies, which was, she says, "a natural combination considering my background and Asia's burgeoning economic growth." Contemplating a career in law, Ma decided to first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank you. Robert Kaplan My... View Details
Keywords: by Staff