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- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of income to real-world poor people in the context of dictator games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the company," Graham said. And two years later, when Meyer transferred ownership of the paper, his son-in-law received two-thirds and his daughter one-third of the shares. "My father believed that no man should ever have to work for his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
and strategy with an emphasis on environmental management, Reinhardt recently shared his expertise with HBS alumni during reunion weekend. His talk, titled "Down to Earth: Applying Basic Business Principles to Environmental... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
in a variety of roles, including marketing, strategy, or channel management among others, before transferring to one of our 90 subsidiaries and 15 regional headquarters to further develop their careers with Samsung. What recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
particular, patient data can be shared relatively easily between providers within a given practice, and some of the errors that result from illegible penmanship might be avoided. "We rely on physicians' penmanship in making some pretty... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
could be welcome. Moreover, if shareholders are the recipients of all this value, then this would just be a transfer from tax authorities to shareholders. Unfortunately, the evidence is more mixed on the degree to which shareholders... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
that transforms shared spaces into hyper-personalized environments. BEAM Nathan Dass (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025) We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni, twelve HBS professors, and a distinguished group of Asian business and government officials focused on the June 30 transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China and the expected impact on business in the region. Optional... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small "excuse" counters this reluctance. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
the world, PennApps, takes place. Fang was an undergrad who participated in and eventually helped to organize the hackathon, seeing firsthand how participants shared information with one another—whether it was a superstar developer... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
of investment greatly matters. Accordingly, prior studies find that cash holdings enable firms to increase product market share at the expense of their rivals. Recently, however, U.S. multinational firms have received a lot of attention... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters
questions. Although many of these fields are optional when posting a job, filling them out can minimize questions from students. Be honest about salary levels/grades, and timelines for interviews and decision making It may feel like you’re View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
search for adventure. These places gave a flavor of that.” There were more corporate transfers (to fresh vegetables, then fresh fruit) until 1983, when he landed what he saw as his dream role as Castle & Cooke’s international controller... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
Mbanusi (MBA 2021) and Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021), who came to business school from nonprofit and chemical engineering backgrounds respectively, prove that experience outside of investing can also be highly transferable and valuable to the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
Sweating It Out in Philly; Whiskey Flights in Portland
joined the Philly studio that night.” Freeman enjoyed the chance to talk with fellow alumni and show them what she’s been building. “We shared a lot about what makes you pursue an idea, what makes it worthy and what the biggest challenges... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
of family-owned and-managed firms. It may sound a simplistic conclusion that there has never been "one best way" of achieving business success. However, this historical experience stands as a powerful corrective to over-simplistic management fads and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
TDC's shares to force compulsory redemption under Denmark law. However, a pension fund that held 5.5% of the outstanding stock has rejected the offer. Should Nordic Telephone lower its 90% acceptance threshold and purchase TDC without a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
the empirical facts we observe. Our results illustrate how financial innovation can mitigate investor behavioral biases. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53859 Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant Inventors: View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
technology so I learn something It's like playing pool You hit the green ball with the white ball, and the point is to place the white ball to get the next shot. So I take that job in order to learn skills for my next project." The assumption that skills View Details