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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
happiness by tweaking minor behaviors and dealing with emotional impulses to accentuate their positive impact. Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age by Erik Schaeffer and David Sovie... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
held. Firms in all countries in the sample tend to have concentrated ownership at the time they go public. Decreases in ownership concentration are more likely for firms in countries with stronger protections for minority shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
time to avoid the unfolding civil conflict. Clashes between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority ran from 1983 to 2009, closing down areas of the country for extended periods of time and costing an estimated 100,000 lives. By... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
novel experimental design. In line with predictions, we find that information on the popularity of policy choices is beneficial when a minority of voters is biased but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Faculty & Staff Demographics Total Female US Minority Faculty 343 30% 33% Staff 1,524 64% 29% More Key Faculty & Staff Metrics Commencement Harvard Business School celebrated... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
filing proposals for companies to add women and minorities to boards. Those proposals never got a majority vote, but they did spark the conversation. And that conversation, as you know, picked up as there was more social activism, more... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
transition to black majority rule. The account in this working paper carefully describes—but does not analyze nor draw lessons from—these challenging negotiations. Forthcoming papers will provide analysis and derive general insights from Kissinger’s negotiations to end... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty penalty. Only a minority of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
Abstract Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
back to in-person learning after the COVID pandemic. Total enrollment remained flat in fiscal 2024 at nearly 42,000, as the percentage of women increased from the prior year while enrollment of international and minority participants... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
individuals you can respect and learn from. Maybe they don't look like you, but if they share your values, it can work. Women and minorities often have additional complexities to deal with, but you can get through them if you are working... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
people he knows, but can he persuade Congress to act? If he’s a good communicator and good negotiator and good creator of shared value, he’ll figure out something that works for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for Senate Minority Leader Chuck... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
deal with Cuba.” In reality, the policy changes entailed reinstating some minor restrictions on US travel, but in effect, it sent the message to potential American visitors that Cuba was once again closed. Two months later, reports began... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
decile of time, Ptrend < .0001) compared with qualitatively stable levels in the other hospitals; this reduction was driven largely by decreases in the minor severity (Ptrend < .0001), compensated (Ptrend < .0001), and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
management believes the relationships between these key financial and nonfinancial metrics to be. Most companies have a great deal of work to do in this area. A 2008 KPMG CSR survey found that "Only a minority 16 percent of G250 companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace