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- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
minimal viable product (MVP) for our mental health startup idea, and to achieve that, I decided to level up my technical skills through an intensive coding program for three main reasons: 1. Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
more prone to rush a bit and not be as meticulous,” Toffel says. The level of inspector scrutiny also depended on whatever had been found at the prior inspection that day. In short, finding more violations... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years."—Robin Ely But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS
in general. Firstly, my job will not be the thing that fulfills me in all aspects of my life. I want to have a balance between my work, my friends, my family, and my hobbies. This is what started to get my... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
effect of boundary spanning contact on boundary spanners' negative attitudes toward their own jobs and organization (e.g., job attractiveness and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock options do. Indexed or... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
higher income, where there might be more of an incentive due to higher returns. Only about half of those censured for abuses, however, were fired. And half of those found a job at another firm within the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
designed to introduce students to a wide variety of choices faced by founders, including whether to quit a big-company job to found a new venture, whether to found with a best friend, how to split the equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
advantage? That's what drives profitability and, frankly, what makes it fun. Advice for current MBAs Choose your first job carefully. Pick a place that will maximize your learning. Find an organization that is so good at what it does that... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
Study Results Author:Robert Simons Abstract This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design variables: span of control and span... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
checks and balances to keep them accountable, including detailed financial reporting, private companies have no such thing. Because of that, the SEC currently allows only accredited investors—meaning those who can attest to a certain... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
that come up at different stages for entrepreneurs, so one of the great pleasures of my job is that people come to me with the thing that's confronting them right now and we get to work through that. I also... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 12, 2008
selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2020
- Blog Post
Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience
fine tune my career goals and sharpen my tools for recruiting. One of the highlights of my HBS experience is that I got a job on campus working as a Product Manager for the Student Association Products... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within hospitals, we first examine the relationship between a hospital's level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
destination in advance. Whether you're designing a new product, running a business in volatile conditions, operating a process that might encounter unforeseen inputs, or just trying to figure out what to do with your life, the journey... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin