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Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,...
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- 09 Aug 2022
- News
A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
After more than two decades in consulting, Jurgen Weiss joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2020 as a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit. He currently teaches the first year BGIE core course...
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- April 2000
- Background Note
e-Consulting
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong, Thomas E. Agan and Scot H. Landry
Provides an overview of the history and development of the e-consulting industry, as well as the issues facing it.
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Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, Thomas E. Agan, and Scot H. Landry. "e-Consulting." Harvard Business School Background Note 800-312, April 2000.
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
- 30 Mar 2015
- Video
Patricia Nettleship - Making A Difference
George C. Lodge
Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Publications August 2013 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage By: Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé Abstract—We View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- September 1998 (Revised September 2001)
- Case
IBM's Reinventing Education (A)
Describes IBM's national innovation strategy to transform K-12 public education through new solutions developed by IBM engineers and consultants using information technology. Examples are: data warehousing in Broward County, FL schools, tracking software for the...
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Social Enterprise;
Innovation Strategy;
Information Technology;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Information Technology Industry;
Education Industry;
San Jose;
Philadelphia;
Ohio;
Florida
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "IBM's Reinventing Education (A)." Harvard Business School Case 399-008, September 1998. (Revised September 2001.)
- 01 Jun 2011
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Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss
- March 2020
- Article
Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?
By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more aggressively to accommodate...
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Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam. "Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?" Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 3 (March 2020): 602–628.
- November 1985 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
R&R
Outlines alternative mechanisms for getting into business. Shows the means by which an experienced entrepreneur can gain control over the necessary resources in order to lower the fixed costs of business entry. Provides a mechanism for discussing the role of...
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- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
twenty-first century—race. As contributors to this volume, we were asked to focus on the relationship between race and mentoring. What do we learn about this important developmental relationship by examining the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral
deep rigorous study. Applicants are evaluated on their academic records, letters of recommendation, research and work experience, statement of purpose, and potential to conduct...
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By: Srikant M. Datar
Datar's research interests are in the cost management and management control areas. He
has published his research on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based
competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives and
...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Faculty & Advisors Faculty Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. MS/MBA Program Faculty Co-Chair for MBA Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Ethel Zimmerman Winer Professor of Public...
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- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
among the world's largest private companies. It represents hundreds of athletes and other celebrities, and reportedly is commercially involved in an average of 10 major sports View Details
- March 2021 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Applied: Using Behavioral Science to Debias Hiring
By: Ashley Whillans and Jeff Polzer
The UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) needed to hire a new associate and were trying to increase the diversity of their job candidates. This decision was based on academic research showing that recruiters and managers often fell into common traps like...
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Hiring;
Bias;
Behavioral Science;
Selection and Staffing;
Diversity;
Prejudice and Bias;
Information Technology;
Recruitment
Whillans, Ashley, and Jeff Polzer. "Applied: Using Behavioral Science to Debias Hiring." Harvard Business School Case 921-046, March 2021. (Revised September 2021.) (https://www.beapplied.com/.)
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
that self-help peer groups encouraged greater savings, there was another question to answer: Why? Were members motivated by public goal setting? Regular feedback? Shame at not meeting targets? The researchers suspected increased...
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by Kim Girard