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  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

day it seems in different ways. Facebook becomes an example, good, bad or indifferent, about what people can learn about their responsibility as business leaders. George: I led off the class yesterday asking... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 10 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

conversations in the Zoom chat, course Slack, and small discussion groups were very different by the end of the module. Ensuring that all first-year MPPs are operating from a consistent fact base on race and... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2019
  • News

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

a different Africa, and a transformed Africa, and an Africa that performs better, and that surely rises in every sense of the term. One of the reasons I decided to come to HBS was the strong emphasis on the... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested

Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; trucking; leadership; fintech; career
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021) is working to help launch LivelyHood, a COVID-19 volunteer response effort. LivelyHood is a platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with the elderly and immunocompromised in their local community for... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

and ingenuity was still highly valued. I loved working in an environment that combined these elements, and I wanted to take a deep dive into the chaotic world of startups to see if I could thrive in an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services
  • 15 Feb 2023
  • News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks

long time, but there are still moments when I feel my difference as an American—usually when there’s a presumption about how one does or doesn’t do things. That’s when I ask, but why? How is that helpful to you?” Solving for X: “About 20... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; diversity; leadership; real estate; Real Estate
  • 04 Aug 2020

Diverse Perspectives Series: Women in Tech

Please join us for a panel discussion with HBS women making a difference in the Tech space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role their journeys. View Details
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

God, Government and Outsiders: The Influence of Religious Beliefs on Depositor Behavior in an Emerging Market.

By: Ayesha K. Khan and Tarun Khanna
This paper provides evidence that religious beliefs can have a significant impact on individual financial choices. Using proprietary panel data on the distribution of bank deposits across all commercial banks in Pakistan over a 33-month period, I find that Islamic... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Commercial Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Religion; Banking Industry; Pakistan
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  • 04 Jun 2021

Women in Industry Series: Health Care

Please join Cara Sterling, Director of the Health Care Initiative at HBS, as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the Healthcare space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2024

Take30: Diverse Alumni in Investment Management

Take 30 minutes out of your day to learn about one alum’s journey post-HBS and the difference they are making in the world. Our feature for this episode is Kristov George (MBA 2023), Equity Research Analyst... View Details
  • Article

No Evidence for an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students

By: Georgia Rada Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk and Bernd Weber
Intertemporal choices between a smaller sooner and a larger delayed reward are one of the most important types of decisions humans face in their everyday life. The degree to which individuals discount delayed rewards correlates with impulsiveness. Steep delay... View Details
Keywords: Delay Discounting; Impulsiveness; Intertemporal Choice; Testosterone; Decision Making; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 08 Apr 2011
  • News

Management Matters In Health Care, Too

field. Although they come from very different backgrounds, the three panel members presented a unified view of why management really matters. HBS assistant professor Raffaella Sadun described her groundbreaking research on the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • May 2000 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

Contractual Innovation in the UK Energy Markets: Enron Europe, The Eastern Group, and the Sutton Bridge Project

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Peter Tufano
In December 1996, Enron Europe and The Eastern Group were on the verge of signing an innovative transaction in the utility industry. Eastern was going to buy a long-term option to convert natural gas into electricity from Enron, thereby giving it the economic right to... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Supply and Industry; Corporate Finance; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

away, we're going to end up with a very different world, where we will have more hybrid organizations in terms of people working in the same space or not. Hopefully this book... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January – February 2012
  • Article

How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication

By: Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley and Elizabeth M. Gerber
Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Media; Information; Groups and Teams; Projects; Management Style; Power and Influence; Motivation and Incentives; Technology
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  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

professor of international business at the Ming Hsin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, per-capita income varies from $380 to $5,000 annually in different regions.... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Training managers in the developing world

teaches at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. “With the right kind of support from the World Bank, USAID, US corporations, and philanthropists, they will make a huge difference for Africa.” America, who has visited 25... View Details