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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
driven by your peers. Our cases each feature a protagonist who has to make a critical decision – and range from business problems right out of the headlines to a historical overview of China. It’s a platform...
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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
that how much you save is really what matters for how much you have to retire on. It's better to be lucky than unlucky, as far as investment choices go, and choosing the right asset allocation (and...
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by Ann Cullen
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
into these outliers began in the late 2000s, after teaching the Malden Mills case in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Most in the class believed Feuerstein had made a grave mistake; the View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
increasingly create behavior. They learn and improve relentlessly. They make better decisions than humans in an increasing number of contexts. They are unconstrained by moral boundaries. Are these...
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- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
CEOs face difficult choices when deciding to speak out under the company's brand. Credit: fizkes Summing Up: Should Boards Specify Limits on CEO Activism? Opinions about suitable CEO activism—taking public positions View Details
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by James Heskett
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG)....
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Margie Kelley
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
Nextel Partners: Put Option (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for [207-128]
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
stretch. A comic script is really an exercise in strategy because you have to make a lot of very difficult decisions based on economy. An American comic is typically 20 pages, and you don’t want to go above...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
condition); and some had access to the usage of four co-workers (the quintet condition). On average, the results showed that those in the solo condition spent more time on their walk-stations during the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they never leave responsibility for work conditions in the hands of their partners or cede decisions on quality control. Implemented with care, this freedom within a framework sharpens View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
dividends and compounding matter; explains options-trading techniques that will be beneficial no matter what the market does; analyzes real-life examples of investing opportunities; and provides tips on how...
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
World founded 1909 Uprising of the 20,000 female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditions Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New...
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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that...
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by James Heskett
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Teams equipped with vast budgets and elite credentials make decisions without understanding the reality of people who’ll need to make concessions for them. The decisions we...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
advancing those reforms, not just being a passive investor. Massachusetts, for example, is looking at ranked choice voting right now, so for our members in the Boston area it’s a moment when they could engage with their representatives...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
exchange of letters in which the publisher defended Carson’s source material and its decision to issue the book, Velsicol backed away from its warnings. No lawsuits against Silent Spring were filed before or...
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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White speaks to WuDunn about what led to the fragile economic conditions of blue-collar America, what solutions are being developed to address those issues, and...
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