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16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

Managers almost universally say they want to see passion in their employees. Yet sometimes, they can’t spot it when it’s right in front of them. Extroverted employees are more likely to be considered passionate compared to more... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Health Policy (Management) - Doctoral

(Management) Olivia Zhao Health Policy (Management) “ No other institution but HBS could have given me the same level of access to resources that span business, health policy, and medicine. ” A Jay Holmgren 2021 Graduate, Health Policy... View Details

28 Sep 2009
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Improving Accountability at the World Bank

House of Representatives on September 10, 2009. The subject of the hearing: "The World Bank's Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes." [Webcast] "The challenges of... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

03 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

Keywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

was from mothers who suffered guilt, self-doubt, and disapproval from others. They found our preliminary results to be welcome news.” After the preliminary findings were publicized, McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro of Kingston University in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2024
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Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

career choice at 3.5 percent. Among all the Ivy League graduates: 21 percent held at least one finance job after graduation. 8 percent made it to the C-suite, the highest level of management at most companies. 14 percent pursued science,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
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Buro Happold

By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman

Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each... View Details

Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Programs

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The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

position is strong enough. To curb this possibility, the principal-owner optimally reduces the degree of autonomy granted to the manager. Hence higher levels of managerial autonomy are more likely for intermediate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2023
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‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

emerging market. A study of 59 million US consumers Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS, collaborated on the research with Darren Aiello, Jason Kotter, and Mark J. Johnson of Brigham Young University; Scott R. Baker of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

26 Jul 2023
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STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

For mid-career STEM professionals looking to advance their skills and careers, certificate programs at elite universities can offer a fast track. And for universities, such programs are an important and growing revenue stream—and a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Oct 2007
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Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

allowing me to better understand the process by which business education emerged and how it has evolved over the last hundred years. Q: In a podcast for Princeton University Press, you said business leaders are among the least trusted... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

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Curriculum - Case Method Project

particular focus on a populist movement to grant universal white male suffrage in 1840s Rhode Island. The case raises questions about the nature of voting rights and whether citizens have a right to overthrow a government that they... View Details

03 Oct 2022
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Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

of university around the same time held jobs that have the same seniority level that also belonged to the same industry as the entrepreneurs before they started their VC-backed companies. Leapfrogging on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

Working Papers Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison Authors: Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith, and Mengxin Zhao Abstract Purpose—This paper provides a systematic comparison of the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2010
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It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

co-wrote with Lynn Pyun of MIT and B.Y. Cheon of Hanshin University and the Korea Labor Institute. Focusing on South Korea, the team interviewed scores of multinational and local executives to find out whether a firm could raise its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status | About

Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status All of our programs grant different levels of degrees or certifications and some, but not all, grant alumni status. We have created this guide for what each program confers and the benefits... View Details

15 May 2024
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A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

may be bridling widespread acceptance of automation, says Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and one of the authors of the piece forthcoming in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. “We find... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto

08 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

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