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Diversity & Equity - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work, Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg explore why these inequalities persist and recommend best practices to help organizations achieve parity and improve...
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- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
their sabbaticals, all three of the founders ended up leaving the firm voluntarily (and happily.) Summit persisted and has thrived, countering the belief that all turnover - especially among founders - is detrimental to company...
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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
he doesn't fall in the bottom of his group is likely to worsen his productivity, while an employee who simply learns that he isn't in the top of his group is not likely to change his work habits at all. Persistence is effective. Employees...
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by Staff
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
and distancing from others. In April, 78 percent of women followed these rules, versus 72 percent of men. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/1PcxIp3RzSYTVXmU5wIc][/div] These gender differences persisted even after researchers controlled...
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- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
Business Lending, gaps persist in certain areas of the small-business market, and regulatory overhang continues to create pressures on small business credit. Government Steps To Loosen Credit Three landmark pieces of legislation passed...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
address. As a persistent voice against the dangers of keeping silent, as a man who has seen up close the ghastliest specters facing mankind, McNamara brings to mind the self-appointed mission of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner: “I have...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
publishing industry today ships books to stores and waits for customers to purchase them. James Patterson represents the age of brands, in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand’s most...
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- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Book: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2217627 Working Papers Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
in part because the population is aging. A key question for policymakers centers on whether local labor markets can adjust or whether a population drop tied to robots will lead to persistent levels of unemployment and growing regional...
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- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Hybrid Locomotive project. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907048 Leasing Computers at Persistent Learning Harvard Business School Case 108-014 Newly public View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
explained why question-asking led to speed-dating success. We also find that, despite the persistent and beneficial effects of asking questions, people do not anticipate that question-asking increases interpersonal liking. Publisher's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
Criticisms of CEO pay have two related themes: It is too high, and it not closely related to company performance. These problems persist for complex reasons even as directors worry about them. The most significant reason is that board...
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by Jay W. Lorsch
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand's most enticing qualities. The third age, embodied by the book clubs, is that of interactive marketing, where a company uses individual...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
drives innovation. Persist — most people give up too soon. Love many things, so you’ll want to master them or make them better.). After Thomke’s class, Randal performed to an overflow crowd of HBS students and staff. It was just another...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
those focused on innovation, and those focused on new venture startup. Since Cantillon's time, many arguments have persisted about the risk-bearing aspect of entrepreneurship. Many studies of entrepreneurs (including autobiographies) tend...
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- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
find significant evidence for the idea that barriers to entry induce persistence in lobbying. The existence of these costs is further confirmed in studying how firms responded to a particular policy change: the expiration of legislation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position. This result holds true regardless of the strength of Linux's demand-side learning....
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- 23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity measurement,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008
charity" only on days that they visit their place of worship; on other days of the week, religiosity has no effect. Notably, the result persists after controlling for a host of factors that may influence bidding, but disappears when...
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Martha Lagace