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04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

to realize benefits," Serafeim says. "You're not just incurring costs by investing in these systems. There are benefits. Besides protecting reputation and morale, it also means that the firm is able to contain and control... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

position, which can be either “above the line” or “below the line.” To be above the line means that you are open and excited about the topic at hand; to be below the line is to be apprehensive or to interpret a situation as having control... View Details

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

that millennials will come to appreciate their predecessors over time, Fred Olande commented, " life is just a circle and we all transit from one level to another ." And there were some worries as well. Mike Flanagan fears that because of the emergence of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

again, 99 percent of the time there was something wrong with it.” 3. Create informal and formal shared context—called ba in Japan—constantly in order to construct new meaning through human interactions. Takeuchi likens the Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

intragenerational differences in shopping behavior to accelerate the decline of store asset productivity even more. Although these trends are felt hardest by category killers, they are by no means the only retailers feeling the pain. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

then to go into business means a great deal," Du Bois wrote. "It is, indeed, a step in social progress worth measuring." 3 Harvard Business School (HBS), the country's first graduate program in business administration, opened its doors in... View Details

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

mean that gender diversity necessarily accounts for much if any of the performance. On the other hand, a number of studies have compared the management styles of women and men. Even though there is a wide overlap on most dimensions among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

members who are living on the East Coast. During most of the 1990s, Gbadegesin was unable to go back to Nigeria because his family was blacklisted due to their involvement with the pro-democracy movement. “There is a cost to being opinionated and standing up for what... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

sometimes misguided, America has been and remains an important force for good in the world as humanity strives to improve into the future. My time serving reinforced my conviction that people should find meaning serving a cause beyond... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

Portrait Project

Ninad Kulkarni

succeeding simply meant failing less often. My ambition was just fear wearing a nice suit. That ends here. I will make mistakes again. I am sure I will fail. But I will value the failures as much as I value the successes. Because failure View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

their own individual philosophy of excellence. Frei and Schulman encouraged students to develop their own personal view of what it means to care, and what happens when they don't. One student put together a storyboard expressing her own... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

socializing or collectivizing the potential costs of exercising their professional judgment. Some risk-taking is needed in any professional activity; it is from such risks that innovation and growth emerge." For client-managers, this View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

04 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

HBS. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/NaY2NjI9Ny4EI4XXDoN7][/div] “There can be important barriers to switching to remote work, even if an employer allows it,” says Luca. Some employees worry that working from home means being passed... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

March 2024
Article

Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity

By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern

Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Communication Technology; Race; Ethnicity; Health Industry

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01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

to success. “Career forward” means keeping a focus on the future and recognizing that being good at your job is often not enough—that you should take every opportunity to boost your connections, take on “difficult” assignments, and work... View Details

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

through referrals stayed constant at about a third, meaning these recruited workers were coming at the expense of direct applicants. “People are still using their personal networks to find jobs, but now the firm is doing much more of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

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