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- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
You're Better Than Your Job Search by Marc Cenedella (MBA '98) and Matthew Rothenberg (Downtown Bookworks) This guidebook provides easy-to-understand best practices and tools to help keep a job search on track. Covering such topics as...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
HBP margin contributions, and eventually including HBX as well—serve as the primary source of research funding. These funds also provide crucial support for innovation at Harvard Business School (HBS)....
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- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
In response to the widening coronavirus outbreak in China and globally, HBS alumni are launching efforts intent on supporting the crisis relief efforts to Wuhan and other parts of China. One alumni group, calling itself the Wuhan Task Force, aims to rapidly View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
believed that directors had just two primary responsibilities: ensuring the organization was led by an effective CEO and generally representing shareholders’ interests. The CEO was a filter between the organization and the board. In many...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Business Review What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—Companies typically compensate their sales force by using some combination of salary, commission, and bonuses, but executives are often unsure...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University in 2001. His primary research interests are in workforce diversity (including, but not limited to racioethnicity, sex, age, experience, religion, and culture) and employee input...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
Health, Carolyn Celebucki, and Gregory N. Connolly, both of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, point out, prior studies provide only indirect evidence that magazine advertising targets youth markets. First, since most...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral mechanisms and identify appropriate approaches for behavior change (awareness, incentives, nudges), and evaluate and adapt approaches based on new behavioral insights. We View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
virtual roundtable discussion, accessible online with registration, to enhance their knowledge in the industry and keep them connected to each other and to HBS. As part of the club’s mission to provide members “with access to resources...
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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
passion. It’s just my passion is the technology, not the problem. That’s a great way of doing things. Many really good businesses have been built up on that. The other way, that’s more familiar to me, is saying, I have a problem and I need to fix it. I don’t really...
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Angela R. Hicks Bowman
becoming a real business, simultaneously opening in four new markets and in need of more veteran leadership. Over time, Angie’s List instituted a basic business model that charged members a nominal annual fee that provided access to the...
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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
and Charles C. HuangHarvard Business School Case 311-093 This note reviews the social media firms in health care that help providers and consumers to interact and their nascent business models Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as...
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- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
transparency for shareholders and other stakeholders. The primary argument is that, without high standards of personal integrity posed from within, Section 404 will be of limited value. As John Louk put it, "I personally believe that...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
School all the more. Finally, I’d like to pay tribute to Monty Milner (MBA 1965), outgoing president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Monty has served HBS in so many ways throughout the years, but his work on the board is especially impressive. He has...
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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
your non-tangible assets to show appreciation, which might be as mundane as providing staff with recreational opportunities to relieve stress. Showing that you care can sometimes make a critical difference...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best companies were doing to make...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Medical Devices, the regional finalists were: Boston: iSpecimen (Mike Pierce, MBA ’01, interim COO) is building a network that connects clinical laboratories and hospital electronic medical record systems at leading institutions. The system will View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
research/manufacturing and more). The course will feature workshops with practitioners and domain experts providing guidance and exploring how to successfully navigate critical tasks when launching a life sciences venture. These tasks...
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