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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong." We've seen how stress can alter behavior. It's jarring for managers to see normally calm, high-functioning employees show signs of confusion and burnout. View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
collaboration and co-authoring across institutions, providing strong evidence for the benefits of breaking down the boundaries between institutions and enabling teams of individuals from both sides in public-private partnerships to work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new technologies declines sufficiently with the current level of adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
trained to fill the role of the natural mother. Villages also run K-12 schools, vocational facilities, and medical centers in many countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Kash Rangan first heard about SOS-KDI from Martin... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
Technology Innovations in Education, Managing Human Capital, and an independent project through the Social Innovation Lab. She was also able to examine the economic forces around teachers unions through her group paper in the Role of... View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
worldviews and ways of operating are directly informed by the circumstances of our lives. Many employers have facilitated implicit bias tests that help team members understand the deeply entrenched nature of our interpersonal... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
goals. Focusing on potential trade in Brazilian soybeans, the case asks students to re-evaluate the role of agricultural cooperatives in the global trading system and to assess what sort of model Beidahuang can create to capitalize on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility, and exchange rate movements in emerging markets. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
reduce risk, though the effectiveness depends upon the role of capital structure in volatility. To address this question, we build a statistical model of equity volatility that accounts for leverage. Our approach blends Merton’s insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
toward less profitable R&D firms. The latter is key to generating higher cash ratios at IPO, necessary for the secular increase, whereas the former mechanism amplifies this effect. The data confirm the prominent role played by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
resources, or finance. By exploring the emergence and evolution of these positions, the authors examine the ways in which power at the apex of complex organizations is structured through roles and relationships, in response to diverse... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Should it refuse to treat the patient further because he was bad for business, even though his life depended on future treatment? (The hospital's legal team advised refusing treatment; the doctor, who was often the recipient of the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
I came. I interned two more summers, and I just knew I’d work there full-time. However, my second summer I brushed shoulders with P&G’s brand team and started to realize I enjoyed customer clinics much more. I wanted more influence on... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
to also play an active role in addressing them. We are calling on our sponsors and other buy-side firms to evaluate their hiring and retention practices for the investing team, to be thoughtful as they bring on board members and senior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann
seeking a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent more than a decade on... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
relationships, roles and responsibilities, spans of control, departmental arrangements, teams and task forces, accountability and reporting mechanisms, compensation and resource allocation systems, and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
government group, which reports to the prime minister, after the tragic scope of the pandemic had become clear. Her job—not that different from the role of a VC—is to build and lead a team to identify... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick-and you finally reach your intended goals. In this book, I explore inconsistent decisions played out in a wide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne