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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
support for Trump, the candidate who scores lower on competence in our survey. But two groups respond to the treatment with a large (between 5 and 7 percentage points) increase in their support for Donald Trump: those living in rural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
decide whether to let employees go. In light of Barry-Wehmiller’s people practices and strategy, what should he do? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-010 Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
it. Speak up, right? Make your voice heard on social media, write a letter to the editor, to your congressperson, and support candidates and causes that align with your values as well. So again, every time you spend your money, you're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
FiveThirtyEight have partnered with us on South Asian American issues. When Kamala Harris was selected as the Democratic candidate for vice president, we saw so much nonsense analysis. This is the first year when I was fundraising in... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
process of creating two new boards of directors for these companies. As part of this process, the team reviews the roles and responsibilities of a board, defines what capabilities the new boards need, and reduces a preliminary list of View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
substantially shifts how the company views individuals. Within this framework, Mary Caroline Tillman, the case protagonist, is faced with an evaluation decision between two candidates who have different competencies, past experience, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
headquarters. In these cases, the unit manager may be more informed than headquarters about which candidates would best match local conditions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
the Army conducting this process in an ideal manner? The case examines the Special Forces training in light of the types of missions soldiers are expected to execute and asks students to consider whether the Special Forces recruitment and training process identifies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
of us who were draft eligible. So we finished in January 1969. In April of 1969, I entered Navy officer candidate school in Newport, Rhode Island. In May, I was invited to walk to receive my diploma amid all the pomp and circumstance that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
British astronaut, along with over 10,000 other hopefuls. As I remember, the winning candidate was supposed to train for a year in the USSR before going up in a Soyuz craft. I didn't get selected. But as it happened, the break-up of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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School's enduring commitment to making its education accessible to a broad cross-section of applicants without regard to financial status. The burden of substantial education debt can be a significant deterrent for promising MBA View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? This paper sets out to help small businesses decide whether it makes sense to offer discount vouchers. Research was conducted by Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman, Business Economics PhD View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
same time, you’ll have a nominating committee that really tries to look at what skills, experiences do we need on the board and try to kind of oversee and manage the board’s evolution over time by identifying the right kinds of candidates... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
provide to you so that these experiences will sum up to nailing the job perfectly? And when I have to decide whether I'm going to hire Target to get this job done, or IKEA to get the job done, the way I decide who to hire depends on these experiences that these two... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
candidates into development. However, several questions related to the integration of Aurora into Vertex were still unresolved, the most pressing being Aurora's major collaboration with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). Were venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
selected was the only candidate considered. Far too few companies conduct reference checks; far too many rely on gut reactions when judging qualifications and cultural fit. Hardly anyone considers whether View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
countries still relevant? Should emerging market nations be given a greater role in the governance structure? Most importantly, was Jim Yong Kim, a U.S. national, the right choice to lead the bank, in preference to highly qualified View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
suppliers? Which potential customers will be most responsive to a particular marketing campaign? Which job candidates should I employ? Machine learning, data science, big data, and predictive analytics all use statistical techniques to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
counterparts, Hamilton was an unlikely candidate for success on Broadway. The trio needed to decide which of two popular routes was best to bring their new musical to Broadway: either take the production straight to Broadway in a “cold... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb Abstract—Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority-by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne