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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
deaths in a world designed by and built for men. For example, women are 47% more likely to sustain severe injuries in car crashes, even when using seat belts. This is because car safety testing is done with 50th-percentile male test...
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1.5 Attendance - MBA
several reasons a student may be excused from class. Excused Absences have no impact on a grade when used in moderation. Reasons for excused absences are: Birth or adoption of a student’s child. Court summons or jury duty that cannot be postponed. View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Bernardo Bertoldi, and Roberto QuagliaHarvard Business School Case 812-128 After the death of Umberto Agnelli in 2004, the Agnelli family, led by John Elkann, needs to decide whether to keep Fiat CEO Giuseppe Morchio. The Fiat Group is in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
changing elements of our social interaction in unprecedented ways that may well lead to irrevocable social changes. Already, the follow-on effects of the virus are enough to ensure there will be no normal to return to, as this incomplete list indicates: Excess...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
matter of how they view the technology in a vacuum, but it's how they view it in relation to themselves.” The pursuit of vehicle automation isn’t just a technological or financial quest by automakers, it’s an urgent public safety issue. Worldwide, traffic accidents are...
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- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
school, for example, I had been asked to research insurance coverage for a raft of lawsuits being brought against Johns-Manville Corporation for injuries and deaths from exposure to asbestos. At the time, Johns-Manville was the leading...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2023
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Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
it. Those emotions are deep-seated from an evolutionary standpoint. “From a survival perspective, we are risk-averse,” she says. “Just as we are interested in other people thinking well of us. Long ago, rejection by the group could, in fact, lead to View Details
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by Michael Blanding
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Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and...
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- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
they'll get happiness. In other words, get the goal, happiness comes for free. That's exactly wrong. Get the happiness and you get the success. You get enough success. Now that's scary for a lot of people, right? Because you know one of the greatest fear, the View Details
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by HBS Staff
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Group and went on to become managing director, vice chairman of the investment banking operations committee, and chairman of the strategy committee. He later worked for Salomon Smith Barney, founded Dawntreader Ventures, and then became CEO of Wit Capital. At the time...
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- 09 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict
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by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through...
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- 15 Feb 2022
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When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
second curve will look a little different; changing how one thinks is critical to seeing and seizing it. Brooks offers a roadmap with a few suggestions: Practice a death meditation to neutralize fear of decline. Brooks says this one...
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by Avery Forman
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
family—fell to celebrated entertainment lawyer John Branca, who was re-hired by Jackson just two weeks prior to his death after on-and-off engagements with the entertainer since the mid-1980s. Soon after Jackson’s death, Branca’s closest...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who...
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Current Research
By: Leslie K. John
Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.
Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
to own all types of firearms are implicitly condoning the death of innocent people through lax gun laws. Candidates who promise to do "everything possible" to enact a specific policy are neglecting the tradeoffs inherent in all...
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
78.6 yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9 deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care....
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon
at his car, completely shearing off its front. The sudden fury of the events had him expecting death or at the very least severe pain; only a few inches separated him from both. In the split second of stillness that followed the impact,...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
key to their success allows us to understand what legacy brands should be doing differently. Participants left the session with an understanding of the challenges facing legacy brands and what to do about it. The Venture Capital "Big Bang" and Its Aftermath: View Details