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Erin Shirtz
Erin Shirtz is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research broadly examines organizational culture, social identity, and inequality by exploring the sources and experiences of social inequality in the workplace. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Erin worked as an...
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can indeed be nurtured with the right incentives. Gross studied the question in the context of winner-take-all logo...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to a recent paper coauthored by...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the various committees come from...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
When HBS launched the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, the American economy was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Washington was in gridlock, and the nation was caught in the hype of a presidential election. Against this backdrop, Dean Nitin Nohria and...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national election in 2007 and a...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales (known as Section 363 sales) is...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Claudine Madras Gartenberg The idea of corporate purpose—a responsibility that goes beyond dollars and cents—can seem like little more than platitudes tucked into a mission statement. But new research shows that with the help of...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of...
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Erin Peterson
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Patrick Boor Dexter Southfield SchoolBrookline, MA FL Heather Boos Frank H Peterson Academies of TechnologyJacksonville, FL Subjects:AP Government FL Angela Boothe Lake Brantley High SchoolAltamonte Springs, FL Subjects:AP US History CA...
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Partners - Case Method Project
High SchoolOrlando, FL Subjects:US History, AP US Government, AP Macroeconomics FL 34 of 37 Kate Tancrell Palm Harbor University High SchoolPalm Harbor, FL FL 35 of 37 Gary Techentien Frank H Peterson Academies of TechnologyJacksonville,...
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Ayelet Israeli: Finalist for the 2024 Erin Anderson Award for Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor from the American Marketing Association Foundation. Das Narayandas: Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Case Writer Competition Award...
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- 12 Nov 2018
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Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
change it for anything. ERIN SHUBA / USS Gerald R. Ford, US Navy ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Blacksburg, VA REASON FOR SERVING: I always felt a strong desire to serve, but was always a little nervous about the idea. Cheesy as it sounds, I love...
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