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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics and photonics. He is credited with developing the field of phonon optics—the manipulation of monoenergetic acoustic beams at terahertz frequencies. He is... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Facility-Level Misconduct” with Gerardo Perez Cavazos. V.G. Narayanan : Winner of the David Solomons Prize for Best Paper Published in Management Accounting Research in 2018 for “The Performance Effect of Feedback in a Context of Negative Incentives: Evidence from a... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

School. Emails reveal the quality of work Choudhury and his colleagues conducted a field experiment involving 130 human resource administrators at BRAC, the world’s largest nongovernmental organization, which is based in Bangladesh. The... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

C. Roland Christensen was one of the founders of the field of business strategy and the world’s leading authority on case method teaching. Legacy Harvard Business School Professor C. Roland (Chris) Christensen was one of the founders of... View Details

16 Mar 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. In my role, I work on our strategy and social investment teams. I’ve helped develop our impact management and field building strategies and contribute to firm-wide fundraising... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

academics from different fields frame research questions in a way that will lead to an integrative theory of change. Such a theory would clarify the trade-offs between different approaches to change and would aid in defining choices and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

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Davida Bynum

system in our classroom. Throughout the year, we learned about the science and technology of astronauts, robotic engineering, and mission control specialists which culminated into a final “mission” and week-long field trip at NASA’s Space... View Details

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations with the panel and our field... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

01 Feb 2011
First Look

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Markov chain, we are able to combine these two models to characterize the putts-to-go for the field from any distance on the green for the PGA TOUR. The results of this Markov model match both the empirical expectation and variance of... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

change behavior? And usually it is a collaborative process. So for example, in myeloma, we had to start by attracting scientists to the field at the MMRF. If we had to do grant funding and get them in, but then we didn't understand the... View Details

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Events - Business History

Duke University May 9 09 May 2019 Conference Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism This two-day workshop brought together scholars in the fields of history, economics, and management to explore the unconventional... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

13 Nov 2023
Blog Post

HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025)

dream of stepping onto the field without their cleats, I was reminded that I should never approach a day without full dedication to my team. Those cleats became symbolic of my responsibility to always be prepared and they represented a... View Details

20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

Amazon and other online retailers. Raffaelli is a field researcher by training. His study on independent bookselling includes more than 200 interviews and focus groups with bookstore owners, publishers, and prominent authors; View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

industry, in this field that requires this kind of detailed explanation, is it inherent to the complexity of the organizations? Why is it, what is it about startup life? I think the fundamental issue there is that there's just a very high... View Details

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Eduardo Avalos

would run through the grape fields, ride the tractors, and eat strawberries from the fields in which they were grown. Having grown up in a city, I developed a fond love for the countryside, for the beauty of farming communities, and for... View Details

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

loan officers were more judicious about issuing loans when their bonus incentives were tied to whether the loans performed well. More surprisingly, they found that incentives actually have the power to distort loan officers' perceptions of how a loan will perform. An... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

gender gaps in punishments include: A. G. Edwards & Sons, SunTrust Investment Services, Allstate Financial Services, and Morgan Stanley. While having more diversity in upper management could be one way to level the playing field in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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