Genome-wide Association Study - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. In their recent book, The Venture Capital Cycle,... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

occurs within a particular social category line (e.g., recipients are all Americans) or across social category lines (e.g., recipients are American and French). Studies 1 and 2 predicted and found that individuals tended to maximize such... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

the strategy shifted, and they happened to be on the favored side of that strategy” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her research colleagues call this "unearned status gain," which can cause problems for those... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

Internet channel to a retail store channel should produce different effects than adding a retail store to the Internet channel. To test our theory, we analyze a unique data set from a high-end retailer using matching methods. Unlike previous research, which has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2015
News

Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

initiative’s faculty chair, who is also the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for culture and community. “One of our main goals is to ground discussions about gender in rigorous research so... View Details

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered a phenomenon that is probably... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

(e.g., prestige, money), but women anticipated more negative outcomes (e.g., conflict, tradeoffs). In these studies, women associated high-level positions with conflict, which explained the relationship between gender and the desirability... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

affect it? A: The kind of technology transfer my coauthors Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and I study in our paper occurs when a parent of a multinational company provides information about industrial products or processes to an... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement

program. “I studied biology for my undergraduate degree and also worked as a researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,” stated Erika. “However, I’ve always been interested in the provider side of health, and even thought about... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Short Takes

Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2012
News

Corruption 101

could affect many people. The case, "Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania," was written by the student (using a pseudonym) under the supervision of HBS associate professor Karthik Ramanna. In a nutshell, the case goes like this:... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

of the program. Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts served as the associate director. Students studied under the case method system, in which they solved problems identified in hundreds of real business situations. One... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Vision: Sound Science

threads in Simons’s career. He grew up in a musical family, studied piano and trumpet, and chose a joint music and neuroscience major at Harvard College to investigate the physiologic basis of music therapy. “That turned out to be a space... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

auditing standards in China, while Associate Professor Huang Yasheng closed the first session with a detailed briefing of his ongoing study of foreign-invested enterprises on the mainland. The afternoon... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

Profile

Nikki Skovran

says. In the classroom, she appreciated the way the case study method challenged students. “I like the way the professors push back — I equate it to a friendly cross-examination.” Outside the classroom, Nikki has enriched her business... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship

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Yaping Wang

After completing bachelor's and master's degrees that positioned her for a life of research biology, Yaping Wang decided to study .deliciousness. "I discovered that my passion is less about research and more about applications and... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Healthcare/Biotech; Retail/Hospitality

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. Professor F. Warren McFarlan, senior associate dean and director of the HBS Asia-Pacific Initiative, credited the School's Asia-Pacific Research Center, led by... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. And ontology's associated phenomenological methodology (explained in [2] below) provides... View Details