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- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and... View Details
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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Tethys Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview The Tethys Mos aic Morgan Hall, Harvard Business School Founded in 300 BCE, the Syrian city Antioch-on-the-Orontes (in modern Turkey) was a major center and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
planning and operations roles at Blue Apron, Peloton, and Burrow. Ash is also an investment partner at The MBA Fund, an early-stage fund that backs student and alumni founders from Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania. I have View Details
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
found that multitasking falls into two broad categories: work and personal. Work-related multitasking occurs more often in the morning as commuters head to the office, and personal-related multitasking occurs more often as commuters head... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
reported that, “ my entire team has reported registering for virtual conferences but not really feeling they could fully set aside time to engage fully as they would if they traveled to a conference.” William Cottringer added, “I have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
basically to impress her. So I learned how to sing. I learned how to play music and martial arts and many of those things basically just to make sure that she was attracted to me and she found me to be a worthy match. She's a very... View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
commitment given their prior expectations. 3. Inexperienced solicitors tend to blink at the last moment and ask for dramatically less than they were instructed. Sending a team of two (expensive in terms of time) is one way to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
executive—or perhaps founding her own company. “To do so, I knew I needed to hone my managerial and leadership skills,” she says. Harvard’s new joint MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences degree felt like the perfect fit. “I really liked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
M. Perkins, and Mark Weick Publication: Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (spring 2012) Abstract Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second‐largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
exchange for taking on the risk of young companies in uncertain environments, venture capitalists receive board level oversight privileges, which range from approval of budgets and advice on product development to the right to replace the management View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
managers; interns sending written questions that senior managers would later answer; and intern group research project meetings in which interns would gather online for 30 minutes to work together without managers present. Contact with managers is key The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
developers and 27 percent wanted sales leads, 13 percent were looking for growth marketers and 7 percent wanted front-end developers/UX/designers. Sure, it’s fine to look for a generalist [or augmenting your team with an outsourced dev... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
information. Having another person complete the enrollment process on your behalf is a violation of our policies. Any accounts found to be in violation may be subject to removal from the program without a refund. What should I do if I... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were wait-listed.) Wasserman also discusses... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
don’t think about pay on a day-to-day basis. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity. People are least creative when they’re fighting the clock “on a treadmill,” having a fragmented day that doesn’t allow them to concentrate on a single important problem. In our research, we... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
and content on DocSend’s platform, which is used daily by organizations across a variety of sales contexts. The result is empirical data and a good starting point for examining core aspects of any content marketing initiative. The authors View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Russia to build a textile business. "Half the workers in this country are employed in small businesses. We need to make sure they have the tools to grow their companies, create stable jobs, and move our economy forward." Mills serves as the 23rd administrator of the... View Details
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Ahmed Alimi
business model diamond - value proposition, route-to-market, technology & operations model, and cash flow formula – all in just five days." Though Ahmed dropped off the team after the Bootcamp, it provided the seed for a new... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
average than they typically see in a year, the research shows. COVID likely caused that lethal spike, but government officials didn’t link these unexplained deaths with the disease, according to a team of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding