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- 08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories
why do relatively few women ride e-scooters? Why are women underrepresented among Baker Scholars at HBS? I challenge gender stereotypes – do women prefer being homemakers to careers? Why should men in the UK receive two weeks of parental... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
economically stressed areas where property values remain low, preferring instead to wait until someone else has taken the first-mover risk and values have begun to rise. These structurally disadvantaged areas—like West Baltimore Street,... View Details
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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
reduces the ethanol until the preferred level of alcohol remains, and finally that product is reconditioned with carbonation. These techniques were repopularized during Prohibition, when 0.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) became the... View Details
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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
focus, always try to find the "right" answer. Organizations often prefer a "good enough" answer, providing it can be implemented effectively. Future leaders need to better understand the nuances of how to get things done and what they can... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
feel valued? The discussion will lead to considerations about the variation in individual reward preferences and how managers could embrace this diversity to foster an inclusive environment while driving performance. Digital Innovation... View Details
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Current working papers
Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
Barasz’s new paper, “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News,” which recently appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, documents this peculiar preference for worse-case scenarios in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Nov 2016
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Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 20 Jun 2016
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When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
Both widgets could be described by five attributes: price, size, shape, function, and quality. (Participants received no information about what the widgets actually were.) Source: The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others’ View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Century Marked
business education in general." Pictured above: one of the association's early gatherings in Swampscott, Massachusetts, in June 1922—when a three-piece suit was presumably preferred beachwear. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
for leaders who want to make wise decisions, rather than simply beat the other party. Which would you prefer? Most people choose Option A—the benefits of the tradeoff are quite clear. Yet the U.S. government, yielding to what psychologists term omissions bias, the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 06 Jan 2020
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Home Grown
owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. “Generally, the owners’ options are to try to succeed the ownership across another generation of family,” says Bauerly. “That’s often the View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 27 Jan 2016
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A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
“If you are more of a risk taker, all things being equal, you are going to be more likely to engage in misconduct,” Minor says. "If you are more of a risk taker, all things being equal, you are going to be more likely to engage in misconduct" In Risk View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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Educational Records Name Change | MBA
Educational Records Name Change Alumni Name Update You may update your Preferred and Legal Names with the MBA Registrar's Office by logging in to the HBS Alumni Portal and completing our Name Update Request Form . Please note that you... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA
Frequently Asked Questions MD / MBA If I am interested in pursuing the MD/MBA Program, when do I apply? When should I take the GMAT or GRE? Is one test preferred over the other? Is there a target test score? Do I need to have prior... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
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Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
work prestige. And in Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men, we discover, with regret, that VC prefers to give money to men—and good looking men at that. But sometimes business glory goes to those... View Details