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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
have studied the issue in multiple industries, including the equally competitive fields of sports and investment banking. After examining the careers of more than 1,000 Wall Street analysts, for instance, they found that analysts who were... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
Law of Business Organization Authors:William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman, and Guhan Subramanian Publication:2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2007 Abstract In Commentary and Cases on the Law of Business Organization, this outstanding author team brings clarity and insight... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School assistant professor John Beshears. The piece is based on a View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
what made you interested in applying? I had no formal business background so I always assumed I was not the right candidate for HBS. When I discovered the 2+2 Program and learned that HBS was committed to engaging students in diverse disciplines who wanted to apply... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
them—and that’s what she was looking for. “We wanted to create a new field that’s grounded in quantitative, predictive science, and the only way to get there is to think broadly and boldly,” she says. Scientists at Stanford University are... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
himself had detected a groundswell of impending postwar entrepreneurialism among his fellow GIs, based on conversations with them during his service in the Pacific. Back at Soldiers Field in 1946, Mace, with the backing of Dean David, set... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
proud of the turbulence of our own making and the actions we took out of despair. This book sets out to change that. Belsky draws on his experiences building Behance, selling it, and then working as an investor and advisor to distill... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
2009, Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn has developed keen insight into the exigent nature of such challenges. Her experiences there prompted her to study how teaching communication and negotiation skills at critical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
With the creation of Hawes Hall and the renovation of Aldrich Hall, all classrooms are now wired with state-of-the-art technology. Walking through HBS today, visitors experience a school that has been transformed. Spangler Center, home... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
largest number of Harvard-Radcliffe Program women accepted into the second year of the MBA. And so I went on to the second year of the MBA, not quite knowing what to do, and certainly the placement office didn't know what to do with us. HRPBA & HBS View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
healthy competition to increase patient value. Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment (523) What are the most effective forms of sales force compensation? Findings provided by Doug... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Robert S. Kaplan, Katelyn Brinegar, Nicole Bassoff, H. Benjamin Harvey, James A. Brink, and Anand Prabhakar Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50229 Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
service relationships is neither well understood, nor consistently factored into service design. In this paper, two laboratory experiments and one field experiment, conducted in financial service contexts,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Hummy Song
disciplinary area of management -- in my case, operations management. It trains students to become an expert in both fields and supports us in doing research at the intersection of the two. In fact, students take two sets of qualifying... View Details
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About Us | Information Technology
About Us Meet the Team Contact Us Global Expertise The Multimedia Development team has extensive experience with the case method and deep expertise in the use of pioneering, interactive learning technologies to enhance teaching and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
of the microfinance industry and the challenges of investing in this new field of the emerging markets. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307078 Organic Growth at Wal-Mart Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri Abstract—We present findings from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as canvassers in an elections-related View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne