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- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
"black box." Peering Into The Black Box In a new working paper written with Adam M. Kleinbaum (HBS DBA'08) of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, titled Inside the View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
modesty for all concerned: the rating agencies, the banks, asset managers. And certainly the masters of the debt universe and the Ph.D.’s with their black boxes turned out to be fallible. You can look at...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
of an African-American woman by artist Whitfield Lovell. Weathered boxing gloves dangle from the panels. Further along are two pieces by the British photographer David Stewart. Selected from his “Fogeys” series, the first shows a rotund,...
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
on investing and the asset management business. This includes both those targeting careers in asset management and those interested in learning how to manage effectively their personal wealth, current and future. This course aims at de-mystifying the world of investing...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
The Equity Network began with a single LinkedIn post. Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Kristina Hu In the summer of 2020, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), then an incoming HBS student, was sitting in her San Francisco home watching the Black Lives Matter protests across...
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April White
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
racially controversial causes in a way that could turn off an employer. “People want to have like an awesome black worker but they want one who they feel like fits within a certain box and like very much...
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- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
when she moved to Chicago for a job at Northwestern, the fact that she was the only working mother in her neighborhood led her and her four-year-old son to be stigmatized. Race And Gender Cuddy went on to describe ways in which the rules of mothering are different for...
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by Maggie Starvish
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
wanted to dive into the black box of the firm to ask about management practices, the governance of the business, workplace culture, and more so that I can learn how the collection and intersection of these...
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- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books. In a career that spans more than thirty years, Cuneo has completed seven successful turnarounds at consumer-product companies such as Clairol, Black & Decker, and Remington. He joined Marvel in 1999, just after it emerged...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
—Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995) Let’s separate the “black box” from the “client interface.” The black box seems at present to be an index fund allocation algorithm. Nothing special here—the robo-interface is...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
are looking forward to when there is a play produced about her creative life!” HBSA of Nigeria Celebrates Star Leaders at Black Tie Gala Close to 300 guests, including many HBS and Harvard alumni as well as top business leaders, converged...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
committing to "the righting of past wrongs." "Africa is extremely poor," Donovan said. "And in South Africa there has been discrimination against blacks — who were left without skills and without an ownership in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
beliefs. However, introducing some specificity and clarity to the standards of assessment (Experiment 1) or to the trait’s definition (Experiments 2 and 3) reduces or eliminates this bias in judgment. We find stronger support for a cognitive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
misvaluation as explanations for this relation, we analyze the association between our measure of external financing and sell-side analysts' forecasts. Consistent with the misvaluation explanation, our measure of external financing is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
to it." But common sense provided enough information to detect definite patterns. As the paper states, "Inventors with the last names Gupta or Desai are more likely to be Indian than they are to be Anglo-Saxon or Vietnamese." "You can open up a View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
and observations from academics, practitioners, and practical thinkers from around the world, this book demystifies the economic, social, and cultural effects of globalism and globalization and presents a balanced explanation of what is...
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