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21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

His research probes the ways race and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. Damon Phillips: Hiring people with criminal records benefits companies and society We should more explicitly support people with... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

general competencies into company- and job-specific expertise, develop relationships, and make a contribution to organizational performance in relatively short order. Once they begin to make a contribution to organizational performance (perhaps in a limited way at... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

records some of the industrial feats performed by United States Steel Corporation and the steel industry, operating under the American system of free private enterprise, in the greatest war of all time—a war fought with weapons and... View Details

22 May 2018
Blog Post

How to Engage a Search Firm

percentage of available positions are filled in this manner. Here are some ways you can break through the barrier. If a firm has contacted you in the past, begin with them—they at least know about you. It is always a good idea to have a View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

campus. Record of Placement Harvard Business School doctoral students graduate and join many of the world’s leading business schools and universities. Recent HBS graduates have received job offers from institutions such as, Berkeley,... View Details

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

How Will the Age of Big Data Affect Management? How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

opportunity to cheat. But unbeknownst to the participants, the researchers were able to record the outcome of each coin toss and thus could tell who lied about the results. Two weeks later the researchers asked the participants to recall... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

of workplaces every year. The endeavor required the team to seek “special sworn status” from the US government to view confidential records of workplace injuries. Already safe workplaces became even safer The team concluded that:... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Portrait Project

David Chan

lifetime, average winter temperatures in my hometown have warmed 5°F, and snowstorms are now anything but certain. Since 2001, 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have occurred. Having studied atmospheric science in college, it always... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know about the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020. 2. The program does have application prerequisites To gain admission to the program, students must: Hold an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, with a View Details

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Research - Health Care

UAE for fibroids or adenomyosis were captured from electronic health record timestamps and... May 2024 Article Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms By: Caroline Marra... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER records... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

lending process driven solely by data. Working for Amazon in Seattle at the time, he went to some data-scientist friends armed with 1.2 million Small Business Association (SBA) loan records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Mar 2016
HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

system by repeatedly downloading their own papers, so that others would see the high download count and assume that these particular papers were very popular. SSRN maintains detailed historical records of every paper download and is able... View Details