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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
but increasingly, it seemed to Massie, many big businesses lacked a moral compass. Putting his newly acquired business knowledge to work, Massie developed the Project on Business, Values, and the Economy at Harvard Divinity School. He is...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
the same time, housing of all kinds - for buyers and renters - has become more expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the...
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Garry Emmons
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
but not impede innovations targeted to specific subgroups. Q: What are you working on next? A: I recently joined the Business, Government & International Economy unit at HBS and am in the early stages of developing a research View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
National Geographic Genographic project (Inga Ness), Trendwatcher (Gerald Nanninga), and Wikipedia (Adnan Younis Lodhi and Sameer Kamat). In spite of the advantages of putting customers to work, a number of cautions were raised as well....
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
honored to be a part of such a committed and enthusiastic group of people, all of whom have worked very hard during the year to ensure that thoughtful and actionable committee recommendations were delivered and View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
device, diagnostics, and related supporting tools, technology and services organizations. Students can work on projects alone or in teams within the course. The field course will explore four different...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t...
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- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
not just an idea anymore.” Based in San Francisco, Tea’s sales are projected to hit $25 million in 2011. Sold in some department stores (Nordstrom’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s) and children’s clothing boutiques, Tea has seen...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
included virtual onboarding, sales-pipeline restructuring, performance management, M&A acquisition, managing layoffs and furloughs, rethinking the customer experience, and creating financial projections with an unprecedented number of...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
more credible monitoring regimes to reduce information asymmetries between themselves and their suppliers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343802 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-064...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
Dreams, right? ‘If you build it, they will come.’ You might think flu shot clinics work that way,” says Beshears. “Many employers believe that by just making a clinic available on the premises that people will flock to it because everyone...
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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
elective: International Entrepreneurial Finance. As he explained in a presentation to other HBS professors during the Faculty Research Symposium on May 20, the research project has led him to examine in detail twenty-nine sites that cover...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in...
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Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
the role of founders’ gender on the use of commercial activity.” Past research has looked at the decision of whether to go hybrid with a social venture. In one study, for example, Battilana and Lee discovered that having a parent who View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical procedure is one that costs the...
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Danny Lipsitz
same is true in business. My experience at HBS has only underscored that.” After graduation, Danny remained in New York (“I can’t see myself living anywhere else – I have a lifelong love affair with the city”) where he worked for...
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research Initiatives & Projects MBA Resources Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother living in the projects in Cambridge, Harvard seemed untouchable,” she explained. However, years later, Dozie surprised herself by walking into an Aldrich Hall classroom and into a life-changing experience. She had...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that she also published in the August 2002 Harvard Business Review. For the time-pressure study, Amabile endeavored to “trap creativity in the wild” by surveying employees at seven companies across three industries. She and her researchers identified 22 teams that were...
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