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15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

examine the selection of students going into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with a propensity to take a job in finance and positively correlated with a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

mahogany. Also recorded is evidence of hardships and damage suffered from floods, windstorms, and fire. These corporate documents capture a way of life in company towns and villages—from construction and running of railroads and wharves to daily scenes in company-built... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

possible level of education is a defining characteristic, embedded in Confucian principles. A few days before the Namsan walk, Korea’s national college entrance exam took place—the test that, in the minds of most, will define their... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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About - Global

faculty. 1946 International enrollment in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) skyrockets, and the School brings in South African business leader Harvey Bishop to direct the program. 1942 Professor of International Relations, J. Anton de Haas, goes to Colombia to... View Details

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Europe - Global

also been active as a Foreign Associate with the law firm Shearman & Sterling in New York in Banking and Finance and as an Advisor to the President of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Vincent speaks five European languages... View Details

Portrait Project

Nayely Martinez

family’s mantra, a daily reminder that each action influences the next choice available to you. Growing up in a hard-working, predominantly immigrant community in east LA, that mantra seeps through my community’s bones, through generations of migrant farmworkers,... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Adams Caldwell High School Caldwell, ID Subjects: American Government VA Hope Adams George Washington High School (VA) Danville, VA WI Nick Adams East High School Madison, WI OR Tara Adams Reedsport Community Charter School Reedsport, OR PA Jeff Addis Shipley School... View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

Kirby 06 Jun 2025 CBS News Experts Offer Advice to New College Grads on Entering the Workforce in the Age of AI Re: Joseph Fuller More Faculty News HBS Working Knowledge 01 Nov 2024 Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for... View Details

24 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program

with their peers. College seniors need to apply through the 2+2 program application with the expectation that they will be offered deferred admission, i.e. an offer of admission to a future class conditional on acquiring 2-4 years of... View Details

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

Companies vying to fill entry-level roles should take a page from AT&T and American Express and offer aggressive advancement opportunities to workers without college degrees to help expand the talent pool, says a new report. According... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

26 Sep 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance

Keywords: by Celia Moore, S. Wiley Wakeman & Francesca Gino

March 2022
Case

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley

In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details

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FAQs - Doctoral

available to attend enrichment activities and events during non-research work hours. May I live off-campus? No. All participants will live together in the designated Harvard College House. Instead of the meals offered at the dining hall,... View Details

Profile

Mark Giragosian

College and Northwestern University, including internships in consulting and investment banking. Upon retiring from the Joffrey, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley. “I wanted to have another career, not just another job. I looked for... View Details

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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Letter from Elton Mayo to Wallace B. Donham, November 8, 1939. Wallace B. Donham Office Files, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library |... View Details

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

forecasts as an input into the government budgeting-making process would probably reduce official forecast errors for budget deficits. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51324 College Tuition, Public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital... View Details

04 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

study in their paper, the researchers devised a scenario in which 163 college students participated in a T-shirt folding contest. The students were divided into fifty-six groups, all tasked with folding as many T-shirts as possible in ten... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

April 2012
Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano

Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States