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  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 2017
  • Article

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Talent; Diaspora; Agglomeration; Diasporas; Industry Clusters; Talent and Talent Management; Immigration
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  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

The HBS Summer Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows,... View Details
  • May 2017
  • Article

Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity

By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas
We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using U.S. patent and census data to examine the relationship between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant... View Details
Keywords: Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Experience and Expertise; Wages; United States
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  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? As an intern at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), I am spending the... View Details
  • 28 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic Compensation

Keywords: by Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce & Francesca Gino

    Robert Simons

    Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Discrimination, Rejection, and Job Search

    By: Anne Boring, Katherine Coffman, Dylan Glover and María José González-Fuentes
    We investigate how candidates’ willingness to apply responds to (potential) discrimination and rejection using a simulated labor market. Past work has shown that “blinding” job applications reduces discrimination and increases the rate at which women are hired. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Job Search; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Demographics
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      Jill J. Avery

      Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
      • 10 Sep 2024
      • Blog Post

      Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

      process. To build my management skills and set myself on a path toward executive-level positions, I applied to business school in my final year of undergrad. I was accepted to other business schools right away but was told by Harvard... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 10 Sep 2024
      • Blog Post

      Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

      determinants of success. It was a function that provided the opportunity to be involved in the whole marketing process. To build my management skills and set myself on a path toward executive-level positions, I applied to business school... View Details
      • September 8, 2009
      • Article

      The New Governance Paradigm

      By: Nathaniel Foote and Michael Beer
      Boards members of failed banks in 2008 or of the many companies like Enron who were caught up in scandals are by and large honorable, well intentioned, and competent people. So what went wrong and what can be done about it. This article argues that the problem lies in... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Competency and Skills; Banks and Banking; Failure; Goals and Objectives; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crime and Corruption
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      • 25 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

      Women make up more than half of the labor force in the United States and earn almost 60 percent of advanced degrees, yet they bring home less pay and fill fewer seats in the C-suite than men, particularly in male-dominated professions like finance and technology. This... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • Web

      Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni

      might be, and your unique skill set. The best way to convince employers that you will add value is to show them that you've done it before. Alumni Resume Book Our Alumni Resume Book connects you with organizations looking for talent.... View Details
      • 13 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

      applying for job opportunities, particularly more advanced, higher-paying positions, because they’re concerned they aren’t qualified enough, whereas men don’t seem to worry about their skills matching the specific job requirements as... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • Program

      Managing Health Care Delivery

      your organization's performance Identify and address gaps in your health care delivery organization Evaluate and create flexible strategies for ensuring more effective care Respond to new market forces, payment models, and consumer... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy Gordon Jones , President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Building the workforce is critical to scaling climate ventures, to valuation, and to public uptake of climate technologies both existing and new. The current View Details
      • Program

      Family Office Wealth Management—Virtual

      reflect the family's priorities and principles Find solutions to your wealth management challenges Develop an action plan for initiating an intergenerational transfer Implement best practices for separating operating assets and family office assets Make key hires or... View Details
      • 25 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

      Persistence. Teamwork. Grit and grace in victory and defeat. Intercollegiate varsity sports may build such skills that employers prize—and that later propel former players into management roles faster than their classmates, suggests a... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 08 Aug 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

      A racial salary gap has persisted in the US for more than 50 years among minority groups, with Black people currently earning 30 to 35 percent less than Whites. Now new research shows that in addition to receiving smaller paychecks, Black... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding