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The Impact of Penalties for Wrong Answers on the Gender Gap in Test Scores

By: Katherine B. Coffman and David Klinowski
Multiple-choice exams play a critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these exams deters guessing from women more than men, disadvantaging female test-takers. We consider data from a... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Standardized Testing; Gender; Higher Education; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Video

Tariro Goronga

  • June 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

The Role of Real Estate in Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church, Oxford

By: David Chambers, Elroy Dimson, Arthur I Segel and Eva Steiner
The case centers on Christ Church's Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College's endowment in real estate. Approximately 1/3 of the total $690 million endowment was allocated towards real estate, much higher than... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Endowment Management; Endowments; United Kingdom; Oxford; Portfolio Allocation; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Property; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 9 Feb 2006
  • Other Presentation

Libya at the Dawn of a New Era: Improving Competitiveness in a New Era

By: Michael E. Porter
Libya at the Dawn of a New Era: Improving Competitiveness in a New Era View Details
Keywords: Economics; Libya
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  • 2017
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The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Jishnu Das, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam and Abhijit Banerjee
Health care providers without formal medical qualifications provide more than 70% of all primary care in rural India. Training these informal providers may be one way to improve the quality of care where few alternatives exist. We report on a randomized controlled... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; India; Business Training; RCT; Health Care and Treatment; Training; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; India
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

over half a million low-income consumers across East Africa. The experience inspired Kasia to pursue a graduate education that would allow her to advance her career within the social sector. “I wanted two things from HBS: a more rounded... View Details
  • November 1992
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Executive Succession and Organization Outcomes in Turbulent Environments: An Organizational Learning Approach

By: Michael Tushman, B. Virany and E. Romanelli
Keywords: Outcome or Result; Organizations; Learning; Management
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Alumni Initiatives in Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Alumni Initiatives in Impact Investing Multiple Alumni Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer... View Details
  • March 2009
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Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

By: A. C. Edmondson and I. Nembhard
Keywords: Product; Research and Development; Learning; Projects; Groups and Teams; Problems and Challenges
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  • 2006
  • Teaching Note

Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District, Teaching Note

By: James E. Austin, Allen Grossman and Jennifer Suesse
Keywords: Education; Management; City; California
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  • December 2019
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Invest in Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning

By: Guofang Huang, Hong Luo and Jing Xia
Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the demand for individual items. This paper develops a model of dynamic pricing for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Pricing; Idiosyncratic Products; Item-specific Demand; Demand Uncertainty; Active Seller Learning; The Value Of Information; Price; Information; Value; Learning
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  • 08 Feb 2016
  • News

Alumni in Mexico City Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Alejandro Ramirez Magana (MBA 2001) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Mexico City Regional Event, February 8, 2016 Alejandro Ramirez Magana (MBA 2001) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Mexico City Regional Event, February 8, 2016 Alumni and friends of Harvard... View Details
  • 1 Aug 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Firm Performance, Top Management and Minority Hiring: African‐American Coaches in the NFL, 1970‐2007

By: Andrew Hill and David Thomas
Studies of minority hiring have found that low-status firms are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management, which differs in the level of 1) uncertainty regarding the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Recruitment; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Ethnicity; Sports Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 01 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja & Brian Wendell
  • July 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Teaching Note

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry (TN)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
Teaching Note to 706043. View Details
Keywords: Markets; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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    Emily Truelove

    Emily Truelove is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA program. She also teaches in executive education programs, including Leadership for Senior Executives,... View Details

    • March – April 2002
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    The Local and Variegated Nature of Learning in Organizations: A Group-Level Perspective

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    Keywords: Learning; Organizations; Perspective; Local Range
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    Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

    while building platforms to educate leaders and catalyze action on this complex and expanding set of issues. Play Video duration: 3:02 Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global... View Details
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    Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

    Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details