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  • 29 Jan 2014
  • News

Joe Biden’s Latest Challenge: Closing the Workplace “Skills Gap”

  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

What if we had a Secretary of the Future?

  • 09 Jun 2016
  • Video

Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work

  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Elizabeth Long Lingo
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Mortgage Prepayment, Race, and Monetary Policy

By: Kristopher Gerardi, Paul Willen and David Hao Zhang
Over the period 2005 to 2015, Black borrowers paid more than 40 basis points higher mortgage interest rates than Non-Hispanic white borrowers. We show that the main reason is that Non-Hispanic white borrowers are much more likely to exploit periods of falling interest... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Consumer Behavior; Race; Ethnicity; Equality and Inequality; Policy; United States
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    Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-line Social Network

    This paper proposes that networks can act as covers which allow actors to participate in markets while maintaining a plausible excuse that they are not. Such covers are most valuable to actors in long-term relationships, as those who are already... View Details
    • Program

    Driving Digital Strategy

    Summary Technology, like a relentless force of nature, is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. It poses a threat to those who resist and fail to adapt. But it also presents unparalleled opportunities to those audacious enough to... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt

    By: Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda and Vincent Yao
    Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor market outcomes. We exploit the plausibly random debt discharge due to the inability of National Collegiate,... View Details
    Keywords: Student Debt; Private Student Loans; Legal Settlement; Mobility; Debt Collection; Debt Relief; Borrowing and Debt; Personal Finance; Outcome or Result; United States
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    • 02 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    A Summer Internship in General Management

    Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 01 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies

    Keywords: by Erin M. Reid & Michael W. Toffel
    • Oct 2020
    • Conference Presentation

    Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending

    By: Emily Diana, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
    We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of securities lending in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of identical copies of some scarce resource... View Details
    Keywords: Differential Privacy; Mechanism Design; Finance; Mathematical Methods
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    • July 2020 (Revised March 2021)
    • Case

    Board Diversity at Amazon (A)

    By: Aiyesha Dey and Anu Atluru
    The case revolves around the decisions that the board of directors of ecommerce giant Amazon would need to make in response to the controversial letter that activist shareholder CtW investment group sent to Amazon’s shareholders, urging them to vote in favor of a... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Boards; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Race; United States
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    • 2019
    • Chapter

    Origins and Development of Global Business

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. Emerging out of the industrialized Western economies, global firms created and co-created markets and ecosystems through their... View Details
    Keywords: Global Business; Multinational; Globalization; Business History; Strategy; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
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    • 05 Jul 2023
    • HBS Case

    What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

    Organizations rarely reinvent themselves in a perfectly straight line. More often than not, reinvention is like riding a roller-coaster, with the highest of highs and lowest of lows. This is true even at the best organizations, despite... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • April 2021
    • Case

    Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

    By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
    The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

    In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 04 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

    Recruiters reviewing hundreds of resumes for highly coveted roles in private equity and venture capital will often see candidates with backgrounds in banking and investing. This training and experience provides candidates with excellent skills to bring to the role.... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital
    • November 2024
    • Article

    Leadership and Plumbing

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    “Leadership” is a growth industry. Amazon lists over 60,000 books on the topic. Most focus on emotional intelligence, charisma, avoiding narcissism (usually someone else’s problem, according to these authors, not their problem) and other personality traits. But as... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development
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    • Article

    Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance

    By: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
    Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries... View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Legal Liability; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; India
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    • March 2012
    • Article

    The New Science of Viral Ads

    By: Thales Teixeira
    It's the holy grail of digital marketing: the viral ad, a pitch that large numbers of viewers decide to share with family and friends. Several techniques derived from new technology can help advertisers attain this. In our research, two colleagues and I use... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Information Technology; Research; System; Marketing; Emotions; Television Entertainment
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Employee Selection as a Control System

    By: Dennis Campbell
    Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Decision Making; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Management Systems; Financial Services Industry
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