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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
capital encourages business development." They gave a ranking of close to 6 before the crisis and 1.3 in 2014. To make things worse, credit rating agencies imposed filters that automatically downgraded ratings of Greek corporations...
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by George Serafeim
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
that it was OK for workers to bring concerns to their supervisors. In addition, Carroll mandated that Anglo executives fly to Rustenburg and meet with every one of some 30,000 miners, encouraging them, sometimes through translators, to...
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- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
paper, The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring .) For Future Study Next, the researchers plan to study whether government crackdowns on unethical testing shops encourage competitors to clean up...
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- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
And since then, we’ve had alumni reach out, offering to make introductions or advise us. It’s been super fun.” Wood says the competition offers so many benefits for founders and encourages fellow entrepreneurs to give it a go. “If you...
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Margie Kelley
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
There is not just one “thing” that makes us moms wonderful. It’s the everyday things we often do without thought. The extraordinary things we do on ordinary days that register with our children and register with others. I want to share this list of all the ways I can...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s...
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
defaults, and tools that tap our desire to help others-it's possible to design simple, inexpensive programs that encourage good health decisions and long-term behavior change. Publisher's link:
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Anna Secino
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
important to me as a kid, even if I now consider myself somewhere between an agnostic and a believer. The cultural values of trying to heal and do good in the world have stayed with me.” Singer’s father had always stressed the importance of fulfilling one’s potential,...
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- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
stifle innovation by worrying too much about short-term returns and thwarting management initiatives that require an outlay of investment. “Boards can encourage innovation, but they can kill innovation as well,” he says. If they are to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
increase—but so did music sales. If in fact the research is correct, the strategic implications for the music industry are profound. Instead of conducting a high-profile campaign against pirates, should the industry instead target "samplers" to View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
'How will it change? How will it improve in the future?'" The role of IT in this model is essential, said Upton, but the primary managerial effort, which starts at the top of the company, is in managing the standards that you allow to be in play in your firm....
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by Kenneth Liss
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
to motivate and encourage its students to join the fight by bringing more of these challenges to the forefront in the classroom and making careers in these spaces more accessible and practical. As students, the greatest opportunity for us...
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- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
Climate Change: It's Happening Now in July, said reinsurers paid 45 percent of the insured losses from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, and they are expected to pay up to 40 percent of the insured losses for Superstorm Sandy. He View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
and vice-president at MIT, recognized the challenges of pushing new technologies through the red tape of the military. With Harvard President James Bryant Conant and MIT President Karl Taylor Compton, Bush encouraged the pursuit of...
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
course encourages students to consider fundamental characteristics of international trade and financial system: effects of trade, capital flows, why cycles in international capital flows recur, and how sovereign debt and domestic debt...
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- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
in that promotion committee in order to be even considered? I would encourage managers to think about the extent to which what they’re preaching is in alignment with what they’re actually valuing in the workplace—and to what extent it’s...
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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
to motivate and encourage its students to join the fight by bringing more of these challenges to the forefront in the classroom and making careers in these spaces more accessible and practical. As students, the greatest opportunity for us...
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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
IASB is working closely with the FASB to converge the U.S. and IAS standards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has even considered letting foreign companies list on U.S. exchanges using IAS. Q: What position do you encourage the...
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