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- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
We want to be the catalyzing force that empowers folks to work on their own behalf, for their colleagues or the constituents they serve, and the institution. There continues to be much interest and excitement about the work that our... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
her community. New Priorities, New Skills Forced layoffs often cause women to reevaluate their priorities, and severance pay can ease the financial burden, allowing them time to figure out what they want to do. But even without such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hypothesis. On one hand, larger compensation differentials are accepted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
needed to ponder on how to revise the company's compensation system to better motivate its staff in a deregulated market and communicate all these changes to the unionized labor force. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C., by Assistant Secretary of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
business but also as a determinant of wealth and poverty, they will find a way back to becoming leading participants in the debates over the fundamental question of what makes an economy grow. 2. Innovation. Business historians have long... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
two interesting reasons. First, equity investors were protected because corporate bylaws included provisions to protect the rights of small shareholders. For instance, corporate bylaws could limit the voting power of large shareholders, limit family View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
years were spent in Brazil where his parents owned and operated a grocery store that they started from a garage and built into a successful small business. After twenty years, the business was forced to close and Westphal’s parents had to... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
significant role. An experiment compared a condition where participants sequentially predicted the colored outcomes of a virtual roulette wheel spin with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes were presented all at once. In a third... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) University of Toronto Press Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity, as she traces 2,000 years of female leadership,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give casewriting workshop participants practice writing those sections. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
each agent is free to participate in the game directly. In this paper we introduce a study of mediators for games with incomplete information and apply it to the context of position auctions, a central topic in electronic commerce. VCG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
intertwined with expert analysis, Gordon illustrates why it is so difficult to act as an engaged health care consumer in the United States, and pulls back the curtain to expose the forces that hold the system in place. Lift Off: The Story... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
foolish if they're not participating in these perceived changes. Getting Down To Business Palepu: How can we begin to fix some of these problems? Hall: On the issue of executive compensation, "clawback"—forcing executives to pay... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
of active duty later, he joined the Marine Reserves while he pursued his MBA at Soldiers Field, then volunteered for duty with a reconnaissance battalion that was activated to fight in Iraq. Taylor’s platoon was the first of his Marine task View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
experiment, children chose how to assign a good or bad prize to themselves and another participant by either unilaterally deciding who would get each prize or by using a fair procedure-flipping a coin in private. Older children were much... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne