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- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
offering nationwide negotiation and representation services to professional athletes. "I didn't have a lifelong desire to be an entrepreneur," said Paula E. Groves (HBS MBA '91), founding partner of Axxon Capital, a venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
judgment on issues of scientific and econometric uncertainty. As a result, the basis for dispute judgment and the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn the attention of critics and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
pushed in everything from the co-working spaces of technology startups to high fashion runways—namely, that diversity and equal representation are not only good business, but issues that really matter,” Holmes said. Holmes posed a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, in the working paper, “The Impact of Minority... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
to increased representation of women in the top percentiles of achievement. Stereotypes and Belief Updating By: Coffman, Katherine B., Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni Abstract— We explore how beliefs respond to noisy information about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Representations Author:Heidi K. Gardner Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming) Abstract Why are some teams more effective than others in using their members' knowledge? This paper identifies shared... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
roughly equal representation from both airlines? Parker’s choice will send important signals to employees about the extent to which the transaction will be viewed as a merger of equals or as a takeover by US Airways. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
(humans, mannequins) and dog form (real dogs, toy dogs). We used multivariate pattern analysis of BOLD responses to uncover the representational similarity space for each area in the core face network. Here, we show that only responses in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
categories: representation, consistency, and non-suppression. Representation refers to the fact that if customers are given input into a product choice, they expect it to count as much as—if not more than—the company’s own input. In one... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
business leaders. Martha Lagace: Why should companies learn more about the benefits of strategy maps? What could companies be doing better than they are now? Robert S. Kaplan: A strategy map provides a visual representation of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
men,” Koning says. That phenomenon, known as “sampling bias,” is likely less a result of active discrimination against women, Koning says, than it is a lack of representation in the sample of people giving feedback. Nevertheless, it could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
recipients with educational goals (74 percent vs. 47.5 percent). The entrepreneurial venture had a higher representation of recipients with continuing medical education goals (31.7 percent vs. 26 percent) and catered to medical devices... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Working PapersThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Abstract Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
its accounting practices with a focus on the key risks and opportunities facing the company. The case requires students to put themselves in the shoes of Marc Cohodes to understand the business model and accounting numbers and to identify if the financial performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
involves two key premises: Luxury is intrinsically linked to self-interest, and exposure to luxury can activate related mental representations affecting cognition and decision-making. HBS professor Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou show that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
citizenship is not enough. Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from those who are aggressive for what is wrong.” We the people had the audacity to reject taxation without representation from across the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
substantially more Swedish companies on the list than US companies. The comparability caveat is that Sweden may be more egalitarian than most countries. Globally, Sweden has the fourth-largest female representation in the corporate boards... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel