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impact on day one. Watch Full Series Part 14: Managing Transition All of this time and hard work will hopefully yield the attractive offer you have been seeking. The time has come to inform your current employer of your intentions. Watch... View Details

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Jul 2012
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Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman; Legal Services

26 May 2010
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Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

Keywords: by Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Unver

13 Jan 2020
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Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

acquisitions of public companies and private acquisitions of companies that were already private. In public-to-private deals, employment after acquisition falls by an average of 13 percent relative to similar firms that did not undergo a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

04 Feb 2009
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Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda

June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
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Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details

Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career

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employers to bring it. Brief introduction followed by interactive discussion and Q&A Up to 8 students per timeslot May select 20, 30, or 45-minute timeslots Option for consecutive timeslots (example: 4:00-6:00pm with four 30-minute... View Details

13 Aug 2020
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The U.S. Job Search for International Students

given student’s unique career vision, they are going to utilize different approaches to the job search, and a lot of this revolves around timing. Some companies, typically the large MBA employers – such as large consulting, financial... View Details

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

16 Jul 2020
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Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

and delivery only and the prospects for returning to full employment by June 30 were dim given the constraints imposed by capacity caps. "I have no idea what to do with the PPP loan that I’ve been approved for; I’m not sure I will... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

2012
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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in the economic performance of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Performance; Economics

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06 Jun 2018
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Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

competitor. That, in turn, drags down the firm’s revenue even faster. In contrast, if a company decides to eliminate head count, the employer can control who leaves—presumably letting go less-productive workers. The findings are presented... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Jan 2018
Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

from prior years of employment to direct toward the cost of your MBA. However, if you have debt that cannot be deferred while you are in school, work on paying that off first.It is important to think about any consumer debt you have as... View Details

28 Apr 2021
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Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

The recruiting manager identifies viable candidates, screens them, and coordinates the details of their employment. The RA manager takes over responsibility for onboarding, orientation, training, and supporting the RA. There is a staff member that manages the hires... View Details

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Employment Data All Functions Employment Data All Functions All Functions Select a Function to Access Additional Detail Pages: All Functions All Functions Business Development Consulting Finance General... View Details

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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

In 1883 railroad executives met to establish a system of Standard Time in four time zones in the United States. Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, p. 215. Copyright ©... View Details

05 Jul 2012
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Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

Sons, 1964) Ron McCoy, Ed., The Best of Deming (SPC Press, 1994). Helen Rosethorn, The Employer Brand: Keeping Faith with the Deal (Farnham, UK: Gower, 2009) Leonard A. Schlesinger and Jeffrey Zornitsky, "Job Satisfaction, Service... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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