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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

consumers can take to better protect their financial portfolios. How to Be Bold: Unlocking the Science and Strategy of Everyday Courage Professor Ranjay Gulati No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info In uncertain times,... View Details

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49412 Forthcoming Management Science Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Consumer... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Mar 2011
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Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

still be stymied if they try to consider every single laptop on the market. (In the article, Norton and Ariely cite a study by social psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper, who showed that grocery store shoppers who were offered... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

in-person learning. We know the experience we offer in on-campus programs—where participants get away from their work/home environment, reside together in living groups, share meals and social activities, and have intensely fruitful... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

remarks to a plenary session, Dean Clark highlighted a number of ways in which the School is growing and changing to meet new challenges both at home and abroad. Among them, he cited initiatives dealing with corporate governance, life View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self-assessed skills, and attitudes toward risk. Moreover, we find that regulation plays a critical role, particularly for those individuals who become... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support... View Details

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2010
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superior performance and competitive advantage at the individual, organizational, and social levels and 2) empowers the three virtue phenomena of morality, ethics, and legality. We also demonstrate that applying cost-benefit analysis to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
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Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(UCSF) School of Medicine, and Core Faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude, and an MD with... View Details

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

content, mobile is less important than advertised, one day of the week isn’t better than others, and case studies are most preferred. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54512 forthcoming Organization Science... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

November–December 2023
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Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets

By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo

Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"... View Details

Keywords: Freelancers; Gig Workers; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Analytics and Data Science

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Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

By: Georgios Serafeim

Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management; Sustainability; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Fund; Investment Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Activist Shareholder; Engagement; Environment; Climate Change; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Employee Engagement; Global Warming; Investment; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Expectations

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem Strategy, Marketing January 2026 J 3.0 Alex Chan Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Gerald Chertavian Field Course: Investing for Impact Entrepreneurial Management, General Management, Finance... View Details