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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
first agree on the outlines of a new Mexico so they can unite against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has controlled the country for the last 68 years. Only then will there be a strong enough social consensus to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
economic thought and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49787 Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
European economy. Firm-level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are significantly positive, on average, controlling for country and industry fixed effects, as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
employed in a study of the market for federal judicial law clerks conducted in 1998-2000, we have broadly surveyed both federal appellate judges and law students about their experiences of the new market for law clerks. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
What has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? Going through the HBS experience with my daughter has been the best part of the journey. She was one year old when I started RC year. It has been fulfilling witnessing her blossom into a... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame that challenge inside your... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to ownership structures that allow for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four audit firm, and have a higher percentage of independent directors. Controlling for these effects, we find that firms with abnormally low anticorruption efforts have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
is changing at an astounding pace in this region. Although tempting, the US response should be less focused on addressing the "current" state of affairs and more attuned to the various potential trajectories of change. For example, instead of trying to View Details
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog
group discussions and one-on-one conversations. These interactions are meant to help inform you about others’ experiences and what they learned from them – and in turn to help you think more deeply about what you want out of your life and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
help you take active steps toward achieving your dream life. Former Wall Street investor, adviser, and author Tiffany Kent infuses specific investment advice with her personal story to show you how to take control of your finances and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
field experiment in which we send encouraging text messages to students. Our initial results show that these simple text messages reduce the proportion of students that stop attending by 36% and lead to a 7% increase in average attendance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Blumkin also developed special expertise and a solid reputation in experience marketing. That, and the networking skills she had also learned at HBS, ultimately earned her a position on the roster of Super Bowl XLVIII. "My husband and I... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
using systems thinking and complexity theory to help us understand the challenges at the ecosystem level. There's also growing attention to using randomized control trials in the social sector, which we tend... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the assignment of evaluators and proposals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
this wealth-based discriminatory behavior using a laboratory study. Our experiment shows that individuals are more willing to illegally help peers when those peers drive standard rather than luxury cars and that envy and empathy mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
discussed earlier in this column, of George Ackerlof and Dan Ariely? What do you think? Original Article H.L. Mencken once said, "For every problem there is a solution that is simple, direct and wrong." This brings to mind View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
alike are increasingly relying on whistleblowers to prevent and investigate fraud, the professors realized, there is little understanding about the real risks faced by an employee who steps forward. Dey and Heese set out to study the View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) is the executive director of the School's new Asia-Pacific Research Office in Hong Kong. A native of Hong Kong, Yeh has almost twenty years of experience in investment banking, primarily in Asia. What are some... View Details