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- 01 May 2020
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5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is originally from Charlotte, NC and...
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- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
When evaluating whether to invest in a new idea, senior executives often rely on experts. But these advisers often favor ideas that are easy to execute over tough-to-pull-off but potentially groundbreaking plans. The risk for companies: Brilliant innovations might wind...
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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity
Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board...
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- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds...
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Dina Gerdeman
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February 22, 2010
The doctors have been pleasantly surprised that I have responded to therapy better than they would have imagined. I have been greatly blessed through the miracle of medical science. I also attribute doing better to the faith and prayers... View Details
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industry description, annual revenues, number of employees, and year established. Each annual file consists of a snapshot of InfoGroup's data as of the last day of each year, creating a time series of data. Access via WRDS platform -...
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- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
team cohesion, and how promoting these managers affected companies. Managers calling on other team members during earnings calls over the span of a year were 4.9 percent more likely to be promoted than managers who didn’t call on other...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
including two economic recessions. Smaller cities and rural areas were excluded because of missing data for at least one year during this time period. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Greenstein and Cao parsed both the...
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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,...
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- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for...
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by Glen Justice
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 21 Jun 2022
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Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology...
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- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
experiment in three sites in which we paid off high-interest moneylender debt of individuals. Most borrowers returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various academic institutions. It is currently taught at the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020)
Christine Keung (MBA 2020) shares how scholarships enabled her to explore, grow, and earn an education that far exceeded her childhood imagination—taking her from Wellesley College to the US Department of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung...
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- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced fund managers loaded View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
organization with no sense of priorities or impact from process improvements. Consequently, much effort does not show up in tangible results. Companies need a formal process for using strategic objectives to set priorities for where...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2020
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Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
John Foley was irritated with his local gym. He was constantly getting elbowed out of his favorite spin classes as other cyclists snapped up spots in sessions led by the most popular instructors. Foley’s frustration inspired him in 2012...
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by Dina Gerdeman