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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
directors should ask the critical questions and debate whether it has sufficient visibility into the CEO's leadership style, interpersonal skills, and norm-setting/role-modeling behaviors. This debate will allow the board to assess its...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
do you actually provide virtual reality simulations that you can now start to see practical application of academic learning? And so these are things that, in my opinion, catalyzes more competency-based, because it View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
immediately or in the short term what’s possible for other people that look like them in the organization, you will lose folks. One, because the development cycle takes a while. It’s not like people are immediately upskilled every six...
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- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
to tip. She believes consumer education and trust, as well as frictionless tipping options, will drive those numbers higher. When Kahawa launched tipping capability for customers who purchase directly from the company website, in the...
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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
wanted to know the secret of success for GE—one of the few multinationals to have success in both China and India. To listen to this interview with professor Tarun Khanna, click on the triangular Play button...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders
By: W. Scott Frame, Ruidi Huang, Erica Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Liu, Erik J. Mayer and Adi Sunderam
We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are significantly underrepresented among loan officers. Minority...
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Household Finance;
Demographic Economics;
Financial Institutions;
Diversity;
Prejudice and Bias;
Mortgages;
Personal Finance
Frame, W. Scott, Ruidi Huang, Erica Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Liu, Erik J. Mayer, and Adi Sunderam. "The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- 05 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Leverage the Power of Alumni Networks in Recruiting
talent pipeline will inevitably expand. Additionally, leveraging employees to spread awareness of opportunities at your firm can be an effective way to recruit students. Last year, our office conducted a...
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- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
giving structured feedback more often instead of just on the fly. It’s easy to get so busy with the day-to-day that you forget that making the time for formal, weekly feedback is useful. It will only help...
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Entrepreneurship
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From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational...
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Networks;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business Processes;
Adoption;
Customization and Personalization
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices." Academy of Management Journal 57, no. 2 (April 2014): 541–562.
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
me and what is most important to me. It may sound straight-forward, but I think it’s really important to have clear direction on what you want to do and how the HBS experience will help you get there. Then make sure that your application...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Xiaosheng Mu and Alexander Peysakhovich
Human information processing is often modeled as costless Bayesian inference.
However, research in psychology shows that attention is a computationally costly and potentially limited resource. We study a Bayesian individual for whom computing posterior beliefs is...
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Kominers, Scott Duke, Xiaosheng Mu, and Alexander Peysakhovich. "Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference." Working Paper, February 2016.
- September 2012
- Article
The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence
By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are...
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Headquarters;
Subsidiaries;
Multinational Corporations;
Organization Design;
Administrative Heritage;
International Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Organizational Design;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Size;
Business Headquarters;
Global Strategy
Collis, David J., David Young, and Michael Goold. "The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence." Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012): 260–275.
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
self-compassion, authenticity, and, ultimately, self-actualization. How do True North Groups help people develop as leaders? An important part of self-awareness is accepting yourself—your weaknesses as well...
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by Bill George
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The Role of Financial and Information Intermediaries in the Capital Markets
Hutton's research investigates the role of financial analysts and short sellers in the pricing of equity securities. Recently, Hutton examines (with Patricia Dechow and Richard Sloan) the role of sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts in the pricing of common equity...
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- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
only be responding to innovations in the private sector,” she said. “Why is it that we assume that all the innovation will come from the private sector? Why can’t a city have an innovation lab?” Stefan Knupfer, a senior partner and leader...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
'I’ll bring it down to 3 percent,' but without any proof, the customer will say, 'why don’t you try it out on someone else first,'” Lal says. For that reason, instead of just selling connected products to...
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- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
alongside recovery and recycling of minerals out of these existing waste streams, presenting opportunities for those willing to take a long-term view View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
informed trading decisions about various firms. (Nonetheless, he was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy in May 2011.) Soltes also hopes that the study will shed light on the fact that executives at...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
technocrats, I found plenty of talent and resolve to do things better. But the status quo has many allies, and the culture of management is inherently conservative. Liberia is making enormous progress, but...
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