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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
drawn from across participating Harvard schools. Participate in several optional field trips on selected weekends or evenings across the semester; planned destinations include the Arnold Arboretum, the Harvard Art Museum, the Harvard... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
financials, people, risk management, opportunity, and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Sustaining a Successful Enterprise have been extremely helpful as I think about how to innovate in a more traditional field like education.” Bichara, who served as one of the social chairs for his section as well as the Student... View Details
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
the experience of entrepreneurs as they search for a smaller company, acquire it and grow it successfully, and then confront the decision of when to sell the business so that they can realize the benefits of their entrepreneurial venture.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool and saw a 10 percent revenue... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and Statistics A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
a founder of neoclassical thought, Irving Fisher was also an active participant in the field of economic forecasting. Fisher made theoretical contributions to the understanding of economic fluctuations, popularized the use of index... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Gerald Chertavian
founded that helps economically disadvantaged young adults gain skills for professional careers. Chertavian’s inspiration for Year Up stems from his experience as a volunteer in the Big Brother Big Sister program. After earning a degree... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
stories embody what makes HBS such a remarkable community and hint at the potential contributions these talented young people will make as alumni. While we always enjoy talking to these students, we can’t say that selecting them is an easy process, given the dizzying... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
field studies after. We have a strong commitment to ideas as the place where the educational experience begins. In executive education, we might think about increasing the number of programs we offer... View Details
Paul W. Litchfield
substantial expansion and investments. Under his direction, Goodyear began to experiment in the development of airplane parts and fighter aircraft, becoming one of the ten largest producers in this field... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
and their impact on organizational climate, which predicts successful outcomes. We addressed this gap with a field experiment suggested by Toyota's problem-solving process. We tested three related process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
major technological waves. We saw it with the rise of computing, and we’re already seeing signs of it with AI. Recent trends show that women are less likely to experiment with or adopt these tools. That’s deeply concerning, because this... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
a battery startup, and this experience along with the conversations I had with HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD), convinced me to pursue an internship at a battery startup. Exploring the Startup Space Finding a startup role,... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
over a little screen. (Usage varies according to the type of smartphone: iPhone users spend an average of one hour and 15 minutes with their phones each day, with only 22 percent of that time devoted to talking.) The Lab Experiment Bos... View Details