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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the Harvard Business View Details
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Nitin Nohria
- 12 May 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the JD/MBA Experience
through commercial litigation or transactional M&A work. Harvard was my first choice because I had an outstanding undergraduate experience there and because Harvard's JD/MBA program combines both Harvard Law View Details
- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
research organizations and the political press to rethink labor laws for the digital age. “We have old rules about how you act as an employer,” said Ms. Sapone, 29, who started Hello Alfred with a Harvard Business School classmate. “We...
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Luana Bichuetti
Encouraged by her father, an alum of HBS' Owner/President Management Program (OPM), Luana applied and was accepted to three prominent MBA programs. Visiting the HBS campus tilted her choice in HBS' favor. "I was surprised by the...
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- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international business (IB) literature has...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
HBS and other business schools add more tech-germane courses to their MBA offerings. "Tech firms 'have been snapping up economists at a remarkable scale'" Luca and co-author Susan Athey, the economics of technology professor at...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. Not bad company. Could it be that what was previously viewed as an idealistic (or downright unrealistic) MBA career choice had finally moved into the mainstream? Actually, HBS has...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who have given to the HBS Fund for...
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- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
at Harvard Business School, and Kate Barasz, an associate professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, asked participants in a recent study. Interestingly, 20 percent of participants wished for the larger, more serious tear. That’s...
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
to extreme, alternative in a choice set. The term extremeness avoidance has been used to describe the reason underlying this phenomenon. In this research, we argue that extremeness avoidance behavior depends on assortment type, with...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
infrastructure, and insufficient workforce skills. While government must play a role in addressing these issues, Porter and Rivkin believe that business leaders should set the example by making choices that will build America's ability to...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed Employee Free View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
Part Monopoly marathon, part chess championship, “Strategic Brew” is a multimedia simulation that engages students in a fast-paced exercise in strategic decision-making. Working together in teams, students gain practical exposure to the View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data...
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Martha Lagace
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Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Oral History, Business History, and Business Archives in India This one-day conference held at the Harvard Business School India Research Center in Mumbai brought together business historians, business archivists, and business...
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- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Since enrolling in HBS’s joint MBA/Master of Public Policy program with the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in 2017, the only thing Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) hasn’t been able to do...
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