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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wife, Heather, a sixth-grade teacher. The pair live in Seattle with their infant son, Collin. “But before that, I want to work at many different nonprofits — to sample what it's like and to see how well they apply resources to their... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Information, and Financial Education Programs Author:Annamaria Lusardi Abstract Individuals are increasingly in charge of their own financial security after retirement. But how well-equipped are individuals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
and leadership, there are different approaches that can be taken in seeking improvement. One has to adopt a strategy for improvement that fits the specific needs of the organization at that point in its life. Slow, steady improvement is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
experiments with college and graduate students, which are detailed in the paper, Gino and Margolis set out to induce individuals to focus on either promotion or prevention via a series of situational cues. They then studied whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
regard to recruiting and hiring women: "I believe foreign-owned companies have less gender discrimination and put more focus on people's individual qualities regardless of gender," he said. "Domestic companies have more of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has focused on individual contributions to OSS, but this working... View Details
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
in different groups at the bank, students have a better sense of how they could contribute as a new employee or intern. Individual relationships go a long way in the recruiting process. This is not to say... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
We begin a new academic year at Harvard Business School in the midst of a fascinating and compelling time in the history of business. In keeping with the mission of the School — to educate leaders who will make a difference in the world —... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by examining new estimates of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
readily available. Providers would charge the same price to any patient for addressing a given medical condition, regardless of the patient's group affiliation. Providers could and would set different prices from their competitors, but... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
number of times that each team member has worked with every other member of the team) has a significant and positive effect on performance but that conventional measures of the experience of individual team members (e.g., years at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Business School career path." Most (61 percent) responded that they intend to pursue careers involving very different goals and structures. According to one alumna, "I want flexibility. No more than 9 hours a day. [I want] work... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
company sponsorship of individual students. And Executive Education programs often draw a higher percentage of foreign participants than the MBA Program. In my PMD class, two-thirds of the students came from abroad. So it’s clear that... View Details
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Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting
will guide companies in creating anti-racist cultures within their organizations. STRATEGIES FOR BEING ACTIVELY ANTI-RACIST Manso-Brown’s anti-racism workshops offer three key elements for creating a roadmap that helps individuals learn... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
when investors will disregard stock research entirely? And if they did, what other forms of analysis would they likely find more reliable? A: This would be a great outcome indeed, but probably for different reasons than intended by the... View Details