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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators. But instead of laying off legacy hardware staff and hiring new talent, the CEO wants to View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
focus more narrowly on specific initiatives and projects. They usually rely on their managers (or in many cases, BTLs) for a cross-enterprise view. Developing these types of leaders is more important than ever, specifically for employee... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Business & Environment Business & Environment July 2015 Article BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger As concerns about pollution and climate change have become more central in... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
pieces, the company is now faced with a new innovation that crosses these boundaries and offers the opportunity to significantly improve the yield and performance of the manufacturing process. While the technical solution is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service offering to include Executive Positioning, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2022
- Article
When Does Moral Engagement Risk Triggering a Hypocrite Penalty?
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
Society suffers when people stay silent on moral issues. Yet people who engage morally may appear hypocritical if they behave imperfectly themselves. Research reveals that hypocrites can—but do not always—trigger a “hypocrisy penalty,” whereby they are evaluated... View Details
Jordan, Jillian J., and Roseanna Sommers. "When Does Moral Engagement Risk Triggering a Hypocrite Penalty?" Art. 101404. Special Issue on Honesty and Deception edited by Maurice E. Schweitzer, Emma Levine. Current Opinion in Psychology 47 (October 2022).
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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HBS offers a rich portfolio of opportunities for MBA students to tailor their social enterprise engagement, including academics, careers, community, and paths for social entrepreneurship. Academics First-year students take courses that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
October 2023, news broke that filming of the book would begin in fall 2024, backed by Anonymous Content, the US production company behind Spotlight and The Revenant, and Korea’s Anthology Studios. Deeply personal and highly autobiographical, View Details
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Africa - Global
Kigali, and Nairobi In May 2025, the ARC concluded the Creating Emerging Markets and FIELD Global Capstone project by engaging with four visionary African business leaders across Accra, Kigali, and Nairobi. These conversations offered a... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(1) Information Technology (65) Information Types (1) Information (52) Infrastructure (55) Initial Public Offering (3) Innovation Leadership (22) Innovation Strategy (47)... View Details
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About - Business & Environment
About Inspiring innovation at the intersection of business and the environment. Mission The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business leaders to address climate change and other environmental... View Details
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Executive Education - Health Care
Executive Education Executive Education Expanding Thought Leadership in Health Care With virtual and in-person classrooms comprised of health care-executives from around the globe and led by world-renowned faculty, HBS offers a rich and... View Details
- May 2017
- Other Article
Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis
By: Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty and Scott Jelinsky
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The association of differing genotypes with disease-related phenotypic traits offers great potential to both help identify new therapeutic targets and support stratification of patients who would gain the greatest benefit from specific drug classes.... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Genome-wide Association Study; Logistic Regression; Open Innovation; PLINK; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Hill, Andrew, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty, and Scott Jelinsky. "Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis." GigaScience 6, no. 5 (May 2017).
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to Harvard University. The... View Details
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Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Public Ownership
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Investor Activism and Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 3 (June 2009): 362–375.
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Latin America - Global
students who were in São Paulo participating in the FIELD Global Immersion Capstone. Drawing on her extensive research and policy experience, Professor Alfaro offered valuable insights into the shifting dynamics of global trade, the... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Climate Action Plan . The School’s influence on sustainability and climate change extends well beyond campus boundaries. Faculty research related to environmental issues comprises nearly 1,000 cases and teaching materials currently available for use. The Business and... View Details