As organizations large and small face the twin challenges of increasingly strained budgets and burned out workforces, what can managers do to keep employees engaged—without breaking the bank? In this ...

Why do some companies continue to thrive for decades and others die after an initial run of success? Much like an airplane accident, company failure is generally the consequence of cascading effects ...

This study establishes a plausible causal link between tax-planning-induced illiquidity and credit risks in lending markets. Exploiting an exogenous tax shock imposed by the Internal Revenue Service ...

BOSTON—August 16, 2022—In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced ...

Although scholars largely assume that workplace microaggressions negatively impact the work relationship between the target and the perpetrator, relational deterioration is not the only observable ...

BOSTON— The Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, Inc., under the leadership of Foundation President Robert K. Kraft (MBA 1965), has pledged $20 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) to create ...

How to Build a Life: Why an Early Start Is the ‘Quintessence of Life’By: Arthur C. Brooks ...

BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) announced today that Rupal Gadhia (MBA 2004) will be the next managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. In her role, Gadhia will partner with a ...

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