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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
McGinn Abstract—Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It had an enormously... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
best because God, President Roosevelt, and I would never, ever forgive you.” Affectionately called “the body snatcher” by FDR because his CEO meetings proved so very effective, Weinberg rapidly accumulated an extraordinary advantage for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group, one of America's largest mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
recently in terms of public perception. We need to restore confidence through effective and proactive communications, through openness and candor, and through accuracy and conservatism in financial reporting. What are some of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Blog
HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
just scratching the surface of what we can do there. In the past, only the more senior people from an organization could come to ExecEd programs on campus. But they may want everyone in the organization to understand what their CEO and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
to succeed in this more complex world, and to increase our scale and reach to bring our mission to even more people, requires a relentless dedication to innovation." John Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977), CEO of the Hess Corporation and chair of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
nervy things some CEOs and dictators do once in power." Others were more nuanced in their conclusions. For example, Ajay Kumar Gupta wondered whether the research linking jobs to changes in hormonal balance relates only to those who... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work closely with our View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
instant availability of funds invested in liquid assets overseas, thereby limiting firms’ ability to rapidly and/or aggressively respond to competitive market conditions. More specifically, we show that the effects of cash holdings on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leaders of our largest financial institutions worldwide struggling to justify decisions that have placed their organizations in jeopardy. I was reminded, too, of the CEO of a well-known retail organization who, I believe, would be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Working PapersLetting Misconduct Slide: The Acceptability of Gradual Erosion in Others' Unethical Behavior (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Previously titled "Slippery Slopes and Misconduct: The Effect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
disastrous effects of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Another class participant pointed to an example of high-value data use documented in the Data.gov case study: In Virginia where there were problems with a bidding process,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
now a SVP of Greenlight.com, which recently merged with CarsDirect.com. “It moved quickly from class project to religious quest,” adds Nussey, the former CEO of e-business consulting firm iXL and current president and View Details