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How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments’ responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we...
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Formulating technology commercialization strategies
Even if young organizations succeed in acquiring the specialized talent necessary to further develop a recently-discovered technology, they may face an uncertain path in commercializing the original invention. Initial conceptions of what might constitute a useful... View Details
- March–April 2022
- Article
School Choice in Chile
By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre
Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000...
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Early Childhood Education;
Secondary Education;
Middle School Education;
Family and Family Relationships;
Welfare;
Chile
Correa, Jose, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein, and Felipe Subiabre. "School Choice in Chile." Operations Research 70, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 1066–1087.
- 27 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake
people they grow up around,” the study states. The depth of the data gave researchers a unique opportunity to compare political outcomes between siblings from the same family—specifically, when one sibling...
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by Ben Rand
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
the women's community within HBS. Wong Family Fellowship The Wong Family Fellowship was established through the generosity of siblings Brian Wong (MBA 2011) and Alan Wong (MBA 2013) in honor of their respective 10th and 5th Reunions. This...
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First-Generation Students - MBA
first gen experience. Students who have only one parent who completed a four-year degree. Students who are the second sibling in their immediate family to attend college. Support Services Harvard Business School offers a variety of...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
"paper" board, existing only on paper, or acts as a "rubber stamp," validating whatever decisions the owner makes. During the Sibling Partnership stage, where two or more siblings have...
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- Portrait Project
Nagi Otgonshar
Another blackout. Another dark evening in Khovd – a small town in western Mongolia. I am eight years old. I whine and complain when I burn my hair on the flame of a candle while doing my homework. Next morning, I cry again while I am forced to walk along with my View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
and back again to a local Radio Shack to buy parts for a succession of gadgets: homemade robots, hovercrafts, a solar-powered cooker, and devices to keep his siblings out of his room.” That passion continued to grow throughout Bezos’...
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Eligibility - New Venture Competition
Care (HSPH) Innovative Problem Solving & Design Thinking in Healthcare (HSPH) Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning (HGSE) Power and Influence for Positive Impact (HBS/HKS) Private Capital for Public Purpose: Impact Investing and Its View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
children can begin to learn about the business and develop relationships with their siblings and cousins. Figure 1: Basic Governance Structures of the Family Business System Family assembly activities include learning about the business...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
walked here with his mother, who hid in a cave somewhere on the mountain with her mother and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The...
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- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. “Consumers don't...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Megan Maloney
only is the park incredible, but the people are even better! As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a famous singer. Then when my sibling told me I couldn’t sing (as all siblings...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded his father as president of Zions...
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Ernesto Sterling
classroom. The conversation was interactive, engaging, and full of energy. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I was six years old, my dad came from work one day and told me and my siblings that he had a surprise for us. He told...
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- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
assumption—common among family members—that they already know what the other party wants, likes, and needs. Second, the long history of a family can also institutionalize roles for family members that are rather intractable, making it difficult, for example, for...
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by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
it is important to consider the context and development life cycle of an idea when collecting data or running an experiment—what have we really learned from this experience. —Amy Lieb (MBA 2001) Back to top “Carter Racing” Siblings BJ and...
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- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
emphasized the quality of choice. When coming out, some folks choose to come out to their families first. However, as the oldest sibling of five and the first to go to college from my family, I felt a responsibility to be a role model to...
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- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
system united. Sibling systems have the hardest time working out who should have what leadership role and power. “The one-leader model still dominates everywhere and at all stages” With those few exceptions, the one-leader model still...
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