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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
genocide, in which Hutus, the largest ethnic group, systematically slaughtered a million Tutsis in 100 days under an extremist Hutu government. This led to the displacement of millions of Rwandans, both Hutu and Tutsi, before Tutsi rebels...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Web-based technologies. Recent HBS research has focused on a number of companies led by these pioneering senior executives. The profiles that follow shed some light on the challenges they face and reveal the...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and entrepreneurial spirit admired by...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of childhood poverty in America. Madrick examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
in ways that can be fixed with centralized mechanisms has led to a deeper understanding of some of the tasks a marketplace needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
the company, from light bulbs to medical systems to financial services. It was a very valuable time for me because I gained hands-on experience applying 'quality' principles to the environmental health and safety arena. I worked with...
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- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
2014' Significant negotiation-related achievements from the career of Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy literature. Cornell...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53887 2018 Handbook of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
publishing business results exceeded our expectations for the fifth consecutive year, as four of HBP’s five market groups continued to deliver top-line growth. This growth was led by the Corporate Learning group, driven by strong demand...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
its ties to the Soviet Union. Later that summer, a government plan to again dramatically increase the price of food and other basic commodities sparked large, violent protests in Warsaw and its suburbs. The unrest led to the formation of...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
The army had become his household, Washington's "family" his own. He had no other home. The one missing ingredient remained the very thing that had led him to join the army in the first place: glory in battle. He wanted more than a desk...
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- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
analysis. First, classifying each issue by itself as integrative or distributive (or mixed) has led some to erroneously conclude that "purely distributive" issues cannot admit joint gain beyond the fact of agreement. Second,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
founding conditions—branching policy, modernization, and political culture—influenced banks' development of capabilities to manage dispersed branches, and these capabilities subsequently led to variation in banks' propensity to engage in...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
commercial-scale power generation lies in the United Kingdom, which has led the way in developing industry standards for ocean power. Indeed, Smith anticipates working on a number of projects in the UK that will allow the company to...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
initiative will feature songs that “echo the need for change but offer up the approach of love and unity as means to creating a better world.” DeShay also recently led a successful effort in his hometown of Bastrop, Texas, to remove...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of such historical accounts but observing that they can (1) bring to light complex realities and subtleties that parsimonious analytic models may neglect; (2) suggest overlooked, non-obvious aspects of the process that merit deeper, more...
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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
in leading his 2,000-person organization. This case will be relevant for those interested in what it takes to lead for sustained innovation, particularly of knowledge workers like engineers. It also sheds light on how to develop leaders...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Shannon O'Donnell, a research associate at Harvard Business School. "At the workshop, Paul asked each member of the group to talk about a part of the music that was particularly meaningful and the challenges involved in coordinating the playing of it," Austin...
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