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- 01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
financial crises. “If beliefs and expectations can be measured in real time,” says Greenwood, “it would be easier to anticipate financial vulnerability and take measures to prevent future crises.” BFFS Project research focuses on five...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Drill In 1981, I was promoted to CIO of a Fortune 500 chemical company, with responsibility for both information systems and the nationwide telecommunications network. My background didn’t include any strength with telecommunications; in...
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- 25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
wife of 41 years, Shamim, and their two married daughters and two grandchildren are devout Shia Muslims who feel fortunate to be living in the United States, where they can practice their religion without restrictions. One of the key tenets of their View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to the underlying belief structure. Kusin uses a broad range of analytic tools enhanced and supplemented by 20 years of data collection, polling, and anecdotes from the highest level of access to deconstruct what actually exists. The...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
of 732. Once they clear the formidable hurdle of admission, some 89 students in the programs receive a level of backing and resources for field research that sets HBS apart, thanks in large measure to alumni generosity. "There's an enormous support View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
in economically important contexts and designing and testing policies aimed at closing them. Her work focuses on the role of beliefs: How do stereotypes bias the beliefs that individuals hold about themselves (and others), and how do...
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- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
you can't do something, you're right. For those seven years for me, I believed I wouldn't find freedom, and I was exactly right. And I believed I wouldn't have children. It wasn't until I started to shift my belief View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Removing Barriers
professionally and personally as I did.” With a strong belief that “funding shouldn’t be a factor” in the decision to attend HBS, Anita points out that it can be prohibitively expensive, especially for international students. “I want to...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
come to an end. It has been replaced by a system of fragmented markets and relatively unstandardized products that has led to intensified competition, a more unstable economy, and greater business uncertainty. This rising uncertainty, I...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Understanding how the brain’s cognitive system relates to social and economic phenomena—including financial markets—was the focus of an April workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction, sponsored by the...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
information, it lacks advantages over the traditional model where the retailer just places orders. “When I started my research, there was a belief that these systems were unambiguously beneficial,” says...
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé
precedence over individual religions. A strong belief in the advantages of open, accepting systems — whether technological or theological — underlies much of Ranadivé's philosophy, particularly when he...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose
in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
call “extreme extrapolation comfort,” which is the belief that if something happens for a little while, it will happen forever. There were times when we should have known we were approaching the subprime debacle, but when, exactly, the...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
overall student experience at HBS.” The students maintained that grade disclosure would lead to decreased cooperation and collaboration and less willingness to take risks in second-year course selection. In his letter to students, Light took note of these objections...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents battled an unresponsive...
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