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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
rank or status. Although some may not immediately associate Harvard Business School as an exemplar of humility, everything we do is rooted in that quality. In our classrooms, we encourage students to talk more than the faculty. Our...
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- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
We've been encouraging readers to share feedback and observations about Working Knowledge articles by email, resulting in a slew of thoughtful responses. Here are a few comments from June, published with permission: Re: "Extroverts, Your...
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by Danielle Kost
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
people back to Bentonville headquarters for recognition; and executive merchandising contests that create incentives for executives to spend more time in the stores. All of this reflects basic company values and culture. In other very large organizations, anything that...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
up discouraging the use of stock options, the potential for fraud, and grotesquely outsized gains, will not be reduced. Any compensation system that is based on performance has the potential to encourage cheating. Only ethical management,...
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by William Sahlman
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Globe newspaper started Boston.com, the start-up founders had to calm the waters to ensure the newspaper's execs that the Web site wouldn't be stealing stories or ad revenue, said Lisa Desisto, Boston.com's CEO. Desisto said her group worked a "grass roots...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
encouraged me to apply for a Digital Engagement Fellowship at City Hall, and boy am I grateful she did. This summer, I have been continually wowed by the creative energy that permeates this office, as well as the tireless drive of the...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
brought on Srikant Datar as my faculty supervisor. Srikant was amazing. He met with me frequently, made connections on my behalf, encouraged me, and gave difficult feedback where necessary. Since graduation, we’ve kept in touch and plan...
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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
subject theme. Advertisers encouraged repeated purchases by capitalizing on the desire of customers to collect a complete series. Coffee, tea, and tobacco companies, for example, produced groups of trade cards with specific themes such as...
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
the new Trump administration appears set to intervene extensively with corporate decision making? Responsibility Panel Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS, explains his belief that the Indian government should not mandate corporate...
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- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
challenges can only go so far, Zaikos admits. So Intrinsic also encourages self agency by asking students to set their own schedules one day a week. “We know that, at two-year colleges, the students who tend to be more successful are the...
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- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
from a local public school, and each adult volunteer was assigned a team of about 7 kids. These groups were tasked with starting and running a company while the adult volunteers would act as consultants to help out when needed, mostly guiding and View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
acknowledged his job involves competing against the promise of autonomous electric cars. “The government needs control.” Panelist Harriet Tregoning, former director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Economic Resilience, suggested...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
of time the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has spent trying to write the regulations around it. The SEC wants to encourage individuals to make investment decisions, but they don’t want to open the door for scammers. At the same...
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- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Encouraging Employees To Receive Flu Shots The CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, annual flu-associated deaths in the United States ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000. In...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
van Wyk said, "It is also the case that ... [the truly successful leader] ... has the courage to hold close even the fiercest critics." Gad Gasaatura suggested the use of the "name optional approach" to encourage...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
essentials for economic development have long been, in Galbraith's words: "savings over current consumption to purchase capital; a progressive technology to embody or make use of the capital; a political and social system that allows and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
and appeal to MBA students. Tailor your presentation to MBA level students and focus on how opportunities at your company build on the MBA level learnings and skillsets. We also encourage recruiting retailers work to get to know the...
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Diversity | Employment
offers a twelve-month management experience complemented by a professional development program. In addition, the University encourages applications from individuals from all backgrounds who are committed to addressing the...
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