Decision Support - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

decisions, but eventually, many students face the decision of either going back to their previous role that sponsors their tuition or pivoting to a riskier role. This decision becomes more complex when they... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Keeping that View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

individual cow health and behavior, empowering farmers and providing peace of mind as they make better high-value livestock management decisions on breeding, disease, and feed programs. EnergAI - Aron Sass (MBA 2025), Balint Varga -... View Details

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Africa - Global Activities 2020

huge impact on my decision to return to Ghana immediately after HBS,” Kyei says. “Tuyee and I are excited that we’ve been able to help build this powerful coalition with Koby and accelerate the company’s growth. That would not have... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

voters were inaccurate in so many areas. After the election, I wrote an opinion piece for the Boston Globe about what I had learned and what I thought it meant. The column focused on the moment when large numbers of my undecided voters made the View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

29 Apr 2016
News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

collectively, to the company’s goals. “When it comes to decision making and communication, HBS taught me that, while there is never a ‘right answer,’ effective leaders must always 1) have an opinion; 2) View Details

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Departments | Employment

variety of disciplines (education, economics, information science, journalism, librarianship, management, statistics, etc.) focused on supporting Harvard Business School (HBS)’s mission by enabling the creation and exchange of ideas,... View Details

03 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)

despite having these same qualities, aren’t in school due to circumstances out of their control. I am grateful to represent my family and friends at HBS. I view it as my responsibility to imbibe learnings in business school and teach them to my loved ones. As a leader,... View Details

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

embarrassing—it can hurt your career. Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart DiscriminationPoor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2019
News

A Wide Screen Approach

a tipping point, where we said, ‘Nobody else has really done that,’ and he said, ‘Well, why don’t we?’” Five years later, the decision has transformed the WWE. In 2008, some 20 percent of the company’s revenue came from media; in 2019,... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Value Added

advantage in the host country." The soft-spoken Gupta, a native of India and a 25-year veteran of McKinsey, reveals that the firm supports a research agenda worthy of the top tiers of academia, allocating some $200 million per year to... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

Career Coach

Rena Clark

foundation to support students and young alumni as they explore their career options and make informed decisions about their futures. Work Experience: Laurel Oak Capital Partners (PE Independent Sponsor... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

incentives based on valuation ratios, split announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Jillian Dorans

effective leader. Once I made the decision to pursue my MBA, HBS was the obvious choice. I found the resources, philosophy, and people unmatched by any other institution. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consulting

01 Jun 1998
News

José Royo

José Royo leaves footprints nearly everywhere he goes. A native of Spain, Royo was studying for his Ph.D. in East Asian studies at Harvard when he applied for a support job in information technology at the Business School in 1990. With... View Details

Keywords: Eileen McCluskey; photograph by Webb Chappell

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

John, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “They assume the Bachelor can only like one type of woman.” “When you like one lake, people infer that you hate cities” It turns out those fretful competitors... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death decisions he and his wife faced,... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a... View Details