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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
organization, Fouraker was the author of a number of publications and journal articles. A study (with Sidney Siegel) titled Bargaining and Group Decision-Making won the 1959 monograph prize in the social sciences from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
an odd experience for Kramer the journalist: SEC rules prohibited MarketWatch from covering its own much-anticipated debut - or even from running stories by other news media that might mention it - so as not to unfairly promote its stock....
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
it easier for researchers to settle throughout Europe while also improving job security and pension options. In the speech, Moedas also lauded the newly launched European Fund for Strategic Investments, an effort that will mobilize 315 billion euros to expand the work...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
touch with HBS and provides members with a sense of satisfaction. Future goals for both clubs are similar: to offer their members topical industry-related events, to promote club awareness, and to increase membership. "We've received so...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
“That makes it easier to promote events, and the club has a real-time view into event registration. It is very useful for a smaller club like Oregon because it allows nontechnical volunteers to set up and maintain a Web site with little...
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- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
engineering. After an initial grant of $350 from the Student Association, the station paid its operating expenses through advertising. Besides providing business and technical experience, WHBS’s stated goals were to give students information, View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
welfare services leads to an increase in the formation of new companies. (The paper cites a related example: author J. K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter novel while receiving welfare benefits in the United Kingdom.) "Social insurance programs can View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
would, therefore, help to increase economic efficiency simply by improving the flow of economic information. This view, in which government agencies could promote economic stability by providing forecasts, was a far cry from the type of...
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- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry...
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
defense of the free enterprise system against the perceived threats of communism and socialism. The ultimate aim was to secure favorable attitudes from voting citizens and government representatives. Photographs in U.S. Steel corporate literature supported PR efforts...
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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high...
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Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
Utkal University, receiving his degree in 1978. During that time, he also took courses in banking and finance, which enabled him to be promoted to a managerial position. With little room for career growth at the bank where he worked,...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
concert promoters very smartly, and that helped propel her into stardom. They also used the Internet really well, communicating with fans on social media and using YouTube videos and other types of visual media much better and more...
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- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
organizational culture can be established and communicated. For example, an organization may have an environment that encourages casual dress to promote individuality and comfort, it could fund advanced education and training, or it could...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative attractiveness of two...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called agency theory, developed and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
common challenges and outlining real-life solutions. The authors posit that managers are the chief mental health officers of their teams, offering both a science-based framework for taking stock of their own impact on the workplace and strategies for improvement. Areas...
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- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
financially underserved. Chrys and his parents in Aldrich early in the spring semester At the start of their first spring semester at HBS, Shrey and Chrys would meet almost daily after class to chat with HBS alumni and professors, brainstorming ideas and initiatives to...
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