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22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

National Institutes of Health that spurred more women to become scientists and discouraged biases among men in the field, Koning says. While male inventors far outnumber women inventors, biomedical patents secured by women rose from 6... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Fast Answer

Companies: date of original initial public offering

Issue Type. Enter a timeframe for the Issue Date, and for Issue Type check off IPO. To search by Company: Type the company name or ticker into the main search bar along the top of the page and click on the company to load the overview page. Scroll down the main... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

sections we have the benefit of getting to know two different groups of students and partners pretty well, which has been an added bonus. Are there many couples at HBS? There are lots of married, engaged, and long-term couples at HBS - View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a politicide. Seeking to ensure that communism could never again take root in the archipelago, he constructed a New Order to reverse... View Details

24 Jan 2011
HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

clearer sense of what it takes to build a particular culture and value system and how to recruit, train, and reward employees in nonmonetary ways. "It's all of those very specific things that build a customer-centric culture in an organization," Deshpandé... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

backlash from sectors exposed to increasing foreign competition. Here, too, pressure has been rising but so far there is "no significant intensification of trade or investment restrictions" (WTO/OECD/ UNCTAD, 2010). Another set... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

environment where there’s what my colleague Amy Edmondson would call psychological safety—an environment where people feel free to speak up with new ideas even if those ideas may be far out. They have to feel free to call out mistakes and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

professional accounting firm, conduct an audit of the records pertinent to this dispute and to mail the results to the employee. (This would be far less expensive than going to court.) Having this information would diminish the employee's... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

is far more valuable in decisions regarding people " However, intuition lags reality. "Use it to consider if the new idea makes sense, but don't give it more weight than it deserves." B. Graham equated judgment with a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

not a meaningful, let alone actionable, comparison. Similarly, although the cost of serving a customer who is purchasing clothing from a Wal-Mart store is likely far below the same cost for an Armani store, Armani would probably not... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

bought the rest of the stock and changed the name to Boston Concessions Group. From the beginning, O'Donnell's vision of the company's future went far beyond the traditional parameters. "The way I looked at it," he says, "we were in the... View Details

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

guests they have interviewed. “The workload is very high so you don’t get exposure to other career opportunities. The path is a very siloed trajectory. That’s how we think about exposure,” says Faraz. “There is far more to medicine than... View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

documented as far back as the Egyptian dynasties. While the World Bank estimates that international bribery exceeds $1.5 trillion annually, the larger and more subtle effects of corruption on economies and populations is incalculable.... View Details

Research Summary

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana

In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tesserae. The Tethys mosaic originally was submerged in water, created for a pool in an Antioch bath building. Visitors surely admired its central image of the sea goddess Tethys, a fitting subject for a bath not far from the... View Details

Research Summary

Overview

Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

ability to rapidly and more deeply analyze huge databases. Understanding the potential and then deciding when the time is right to seize these transformative applications will be neither routine nor boring for the CEO or CIO. Grid computing, standardization of... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

20 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

The response we’ve gotten so far has been overwhelming. But we still need more volunteers to help. Every little bit helps. If you’re reading this and want to help, please sign up at livelyhood.io. We are also working to identify key... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

Credit: pixelfit SUMMING UP How Will Digital Currencies Be Regulated? Blockchain technology has a brighter future than most digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, judging from responses to this month’s column. It’s also clear that a discussion of... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

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