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- 24 Feb 2015
- Video
Rock 100 Summit
- 23 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School
network has continued to serve her innumerable ways. “My co-founder was also an HBS alumnus but ten years out, so most of his peers were already executives when we started Armored Things. That was a big...
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- 2013
- White Paper
Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story
By: Sherine Jayawickrama and Alnoor Ebrahim
This report examines the governance model and reform process of an international nongovernmental organization (INGO), ActionAid International (AAI). It describes the evolution of AAI's governance model and draws key lessons for peer INGOs. The paper is based on a...
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Keywords:
Governance;
NGO;
Accountability;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Non-Governmental Organizations
Jayawickrama, Sherine, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story." White Paper Series, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, June 2013.
- Research Summary
Self-Management & Self-Organizing Systems
Self-management serves as a foundational theme for much of my research; many of my interests were forged while working to enable self-management in organizational settings. Self-managing systems rely heavily on interpersonal relationships, peer regulation and...
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- 20 Sep 2014
- News
Making Big Data Think Bigger
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021
By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons
We ask how childhood environment shapes political behavior. We measure young voters’ participation and party affiliation in nationally comprehensive voter files and reconstruct their childhood location histories based on their parents’ addresses. We compare outcomes of...
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Brown, Jacob R., Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen, and Vincent Pons. "The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31759, October 2023.
- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
Technology Venture Immersion. Much of the broader HBS experience is based upon the conversations you’ll have with peers. Whether classroom discussions or project collaboration, you end up getting to know this group of 30 View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
frequently don’t have peers to bounce ideas off of.” Thompson adds, “Participants have found colleagues who intimately understand their work and whose opinions they value.” To...
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University Collaborations
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
proactive about asking questions to best understand company norms and the optimal ways of getting work done. You won’t be looking over the shoulder of your manager or sitting next to your View Details
- 04 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis
- 27 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake
political beliefs. The strategy was to measure the “extent to which a voter whose family moves to a new neighborhood during their childhood adopts a political behavior similar...
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by Ben Rand
- August 15, 2022
- Article
Preparing Sales for a Changing Economy: Part 2: Getting More from Your Training Spending
A previous article discussed changing business development requirements and some implications. This article discusses three areas that are fundamental to getting ROI from training initiatives and how engagement between Sales and L&D professionals, completed by smart...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Preparing Sales for a Changing Economy: Part 2: Getting More from Your Training Spending." TrainingIndustry.com (August 15, 2022).
- October 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group
By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
Richard Wingfield considers whether to continue a cooperative agreement with industry peers in the deep-sea parcel tanker shipping industry. What are the economic and strategic implications of ending the agreement? What are the legal implications of continuing? Where...
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Keywords:
Lawfulness;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Alliances;
Cooperation;
Ship Transportation;
Shipping Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Lara Adamsons. "Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group." Harvard Business School Case 310-043, October 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
from publishing weekly to biweekly. Knight Ridder, the Wall Street darling that owned the Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press, is no more, having been swallowed and largely written off by a peer...
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- 05 Mar 2014
- News
When Your Boss Is Too Nice
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
Is it difficult to learn finance through the case method? This was definitely one of my concerns before I got to HBS, but it quickly diminished. You’ll be amazed at how willing your View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
that adjustments grow more stringent and accurate in the months leading up to default and better predict lender default recovery rates. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52018 View Details
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Dina Gerdeman