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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
later, he had completed his active-duty service commitment and was out. "I left the Navy on a Friday and started at HBS the next week," says McGee. "I didn't know what a balance sheet was. I didn't know what an income statement was. All I... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
other words, according to our readers, our level of patience depends—on the nature of the task; on whether we are focused completely on just one task; on personal circumstances such as anxiety, fatigue, or available time; and on our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and private schools in India have been... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Need-based Application Fee Waiver | MBA
an application and complete the waiver request form inside. This must be submitted two weeks before the application deadline to allow for processing. You do not need to finish your full application by this time - just the waiver request... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
Leadership in Public and Private Organizations. You can view the complete lineup at www.alumni.hbs.edu/glf2006. For evening social events, the local HBS planning committee has lined up after-hours access to the Library of Congress, the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort
Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. I was incredibly excited when I learned about Peek Weekend, which offers an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
cause, Hughes worked tirelessly to enhance campus life for his fellow students. As president of his section, for example, he helped communicate to the administration the special needs of the first-ever January cohort (those students View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
cancer will survive from it. In some cases, they will be completely cured. And in other cases, they’ll be able to manage it as more of a chronic disease. “Things are moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and I think we have every reason to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
hesitation, he said, leader. His comment struck a chord with me as true. I am definitely a person who sees a problem and says, ‘let’s solve it.’” Nick had just completed the publication of Lenses of Leadership when she was offered the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
head CT order, time from head CT order to head CT scheduled, time from head CT scheduled to head CT completed, and time from head CT completed to head CT preliminary report), each process was the bottleneck 30%, <1%, 27%, and 42% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
the underlying conditions for either governments or markets. The one thing that I think will be most dramatic, though, is the ability of the Internet to sneak information around the governments who would be most likely to try to stop its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
English and German contain information on the crises of 1873 and 1893. Firms mentioned frequently include the Kansas & Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Wisconsin Central Railroads, and a number of Oregon firms. Deutsch Bank, Siemens &... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
question—it’s clear.” Simply put, inefficiencies in the development of precision medicine can best be addressed by a business-analysis approach. With the mapping of the human genome completed 15 years ago, the sci-fi concept of using a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
belief that her own ability in math is lower.” Women discount positive feedback about their abilities In an experiment for Coffman’s working paper Stereotypes and Belief Updating, participants completed a timed test of cognitive ability... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
community––it interacts with citizens on a daily basis and is completely accountable to the people it represents,” he says. Wattle Range is a region in southern South Australia made up of 13 towns, with a population of 11,677. The region... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
impact of rankings on application decisions. When explicit rankings of colleges are published in U.S. News, a one-rank improvement leads to a 1-percentage-point increase in the number of applications to that college. Second, we show that the response to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
MD/MBA | MBA
encouraged to enter and complete a medical residency, or other kind of postgraduate clinical training, upon graduation from the joint degree program. MD/MBA graduates are expected to provide the informed... View Details