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  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours. Plus: book excerpt. Most Popular Working Papers 1. Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue This paper attempts to encourage a better... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Plugged In

aesthetics." 2. TARGET THE TASTEMAKERS To reach the cool kids, Camargo and Cadillac partnered with IvyConnect, a members-only social network founded by Philipp Triebel and Beri Meric (both MBA 2010). "Using the power of View Details
Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

influence of social networks for a while. We noticed that every time we met people at conferences, an immediate starting point in conversations was to ask where one went to school. Educational connections... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

confluence. "For managers, working in the social sector can be more exciting than managing a business - your influence as a force for entrepreneurial change can make an impact beyond your organization,"... View Details
  • January 2010 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year?

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. Weinzierl
In response to the economic and financial crisis of 2008–2009, the Federal Reserve greatly expanded the scale and scope of its activities. Though lauded by many experts for its actions, the Fed and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, faced harsh criticism from some public... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Central Banking; Governance Controls; Policy; Crisis Management; Power and Influence; Public Administration Industry; United States
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Tim Day Fitness Room | About

to provide users with an enhanced fitness experience. The open floor plan includes a centrally located staff desk and social area, allowing staff to service the entire area more efficiently and provide increased safety oversight. The... View Details
  • April 2006
  • Case

Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair

By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • March 2010
  • Article

Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Product; Microfinance; Decision Making; Policy; Welfare or Wellbeing; Gender; Power and Influence; Philippines
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Coming Full Circle

in their daily lives as general managers. “Because of the nature of human beings, OB is an area that never becomes obsolete,” he comments. “Organizations are social constructs; I strongly believe effective leadership involves... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • News

The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into disadvantage, among other issues. No... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

defining a social and environmental commitment. The case also highlights the tension and potential synergies between social mission and shareholder value in the context of the crisis of 2008, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Researchers investigate the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond Accommodation

influence on the thousands of blind people it serves every year. Still, he wasn’t likely to take the job just because he happened to be a blind CEO. “Entering the blindness business was never really my objective at this stage in my... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • Profile

Andrew Holmberg

experience was less about investigation and more about integration. In college, Andrew explains, “I majored in both economics and public policy; I’ve always been interested in the intersection of business and social policy, between... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

  Publications September 2014 Social Entrepreneurship and Research Methods Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities By: Lee, Matthew, Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Tafadzwa Samushonga

mother demonstrated how to use that support responsibly,” Tafadzwa explains. “Remaining anchored in our community, she taught me to boldly pursue independence, so that I, too, would become better positioned to help others.” While Tafadzwa’s upbringing View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

of such things as wealth versus income. The survey collected that sort of information so that we could see how different demographics influenced how included people felt on campus, and how much access they felt they had. What aspects of... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

witnessed the tremendous success of SSP-SA in its first two years, she is keenly aware of the potential that the program has to influence the country’s future. Modeled after the Student/Sponsor Partnership in New York City, the SSP-SA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Thought Leader

September 18, 2003) also emerged from HBS? Donald Davidson (MBA ’42), a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former president of the American Philosophical Association, died last August at the age of 86. Davidson deeply View Details
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

while users who are influenced by listings' visual presentation and page position became more likely to click on Google's own Flight Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne