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- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
Scalability Matters The data showed that the finance industry rewarded talented workers to a far greater extent than did other industries. Bankers who had gone to top engineering schools made vastly more money than those who had gone to... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
that means is that despite the enormous costs—both financial and political—of setting up these exchanges, fewer than 10 percent of uninsured people in the US have so far been insured as a result. “This is not like Field of Dreams, where... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
strategy for supporting the war effort earned him the rank of Brigadier General. He was an outlier who believed deeply in innovation, disciplined analysis and future focus. He refused to use HBS’s vaunted case method, preferring to lecture his classes on View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
if I made several mistakes, then others who had far less access to well-informed guidance, and whose parents had not attended college, had to be navigating even more tenuously. That has to be part of the reason that minorities were so... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
1996, these research centers have enabled HBS to strengthen ties with local alumni, businesses, and universities; the result is a far deeper understanding of each area’s managerial issues and strategies and a View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil rights reforms provided a break... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM education and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
social-purpose enterprises," Nelson said recently. "Led by faculty chair Professor Jim Austin, the Initiative's research, course development, and publications have had a significant impact on many of our students, not to mention educational institutions View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
emeritus Sam Hayes: “The October 19 crash also calls into question the de facto rules and regulations that we’ve been working with for the last fifty years or so and how far we have come from the assumptions underlying the reform... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR
Sustainability Club. HBS has an opportunity to equip current students, as well as our alumni and business leaders everywhere, with the knowledge and skills to anticipate and address climate change. We are starting to seize this opportunity, but our work is View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We depend upon them View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
be such a big information tradeoff,” she says. For the NIH, the benefits of more expertise at the judging tables are likely to far outweigh potential bias. “Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH,” by Danielle Li, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
instance. "Preparation, caution, care, and attention to detail are usually the best approach to everyday challenges," writes Badaracco. "What usually matters are careful, thoughtful, small, practical efforts by people working far from the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
company's mission on behalf of customers. They should be given full responsibility for performance, quality, achievement of goals, and compliance with company standards. To realize this change, organizational structures need to change. Dramatically. For starters,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details
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Paul Luning
acting on their interests here. They have huge aspirations that reach far beyond the profit motive." Paul's subsequent experiences have confirmed his first impressions. "Social enterprise matters at HBS," he says.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
PRIDE at HBS: Forty Years of Progress
was around in 1981. Amid discrimination and fear, queer people stood up and built a community at HBS. There is still so much left to fix globally (and even a little bit here at Harvard) when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights, but the progress that has been achieved so View Details
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I’ve learned this simple lesson too many times to ignore it this far into life: Stepping back fro... Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer in Community Development Michael Alan Williams 30 Nov 2017 I’ve known for a while that I want to be a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
hepatitis B from $20 to $1. “Close to consumers, they understand the local market and health-delivery infrastructure,” write Daar and Singer. “They have the potential to invent and develop drugs at far lower cost than northern biotechs... View Details