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02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

Effects of Over-Prescribing Goals Setting," was authored by Lisa D. Ordóñez, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona; Maurice E. Schweitzer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Adam D. Galinsky, Kellogg School of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

be rejected." The results are enough to spook anyone who has ever sent off a résumé or college application: not only were the studies' subjects unable to counteract this correspondence bias, they remained susceptible to it even when... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

Bruce Davies, Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: Singer Sewing Machines in Foreign Markets, 1854–1920 (New York: Arno Press, 1976). Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

increasing danger of highlight glare at night. Land entered Harvard College in 1926. After the fall semester, he took a leave of absence to live in New York City. Over the course of the next three years, in the reading room of the New... View Details

07 Jun 2021
Blog Post

The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

society at large. I pursued my undergraduate degree at a small liberal arts college, Ohio Wesleyan University, where I double majored in Economics and Politics & Government. Ohio Wesleyan was a great college fit for me. I received... View Details

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

now for whom music has always been a free commodity. The more that we talk to college students and teenagers about why they buy vinyl, the common thread is that having vinyl in your dorm room or your house says something about you and who... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

01 Sep 2010
News

Now Starring: Single Dad

WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Meagan Hill

Meagan Hill enrolled in Harvard College with the intention of going on to medical school. But through her work at Harvard Student Agencies — a conglomerate of nine businesses that offer students hands-on business experience — she... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1976 Earns BA, Economics, Dartmouth College 1976 Joins New York Bank for Savings 1980 Earns MBA 1980 Joins S.C. Johnson & Son 1982 Joins the Vanguard... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

resulting working paper, Conversational Receptiveness: Improving Engagement with Opposing Views, was written in collaboration with Michael Yeomans, assistant professor at Imperial College Business School in London; Julia Minson, associate... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS

about the 2+2 program at HBS. I really could not bring myself to believe that they would ever accept me into such a program, nor could I ever imagine I could afford it. I was an English major in undergrad and had not settled on business as a career path until later in... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

hall from John, has studied the ways in which organizations hide information from consumers-sometimes duplicitously. In a previous paper about U.S. News & World Report college rankings of MBA programs, for example, he found a strong... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

porridge) and fried rice for lunch instead of a ham and cheese sandwich. It took me until college to find a larger community of folks with the similar experience of being pulled in two opposite directions: not Chinese enough and yet not... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial Publicity Challenge of Color Breaking Down Barriers Dream Realities Route of the Exhibition Research Links Credits Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard View Details

23 May 2018
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Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1961 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1984 Earns BA, Art History, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1985 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Research Associate 1988 Earns MBA 1988 Joins Fidelity,... View Details