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Shimon Attie Night Watch (Victor with Freedom Tower), Hudson River 2018 | About

Watch displayed silent close-up video portraits of twelve new New Yorkers whose lives have been saved by recently being granted political asylum in the US. Most of the individuals are from the international LGBTQI communities or were... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Character Studies: The Class of 2001 Graduates

year’s 844 graduates appear destined to influence the world of business — and the world at large — as they make their mark in the decades ahead. From this group, the Bulletin had the difficult task of selecting six individuals to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

09 Apr 2024
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To Serve and Protect the Markets

entities and individuals that interact with those markets, to make sure they’re complying with federal securities laws. Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Matthew Wyble

it has been really rewarding.” At HBS, Matt’s sense of individual ambition has also undergone a rewarding transformation. “In our classes, it’s not about who can get the answer quickly, it’s about who can move the group’s understanding... View Details

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Book publishing industry

'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Prior to BookScan, the only source for market data for some individual titles was Best Seller lists compiled by publications such as the New York... View Details

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

information and advising services to employees to supplement other sources Offer health plan structures that provide good value and encourage saving for long-term health needs Create collaborative vehicles with other employers to offer group insurance coverage to... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

in fact we believe consumers are generally ill-informed about products, there's a utility cost to the individual of not receiving ads,” says Anand. “Imagine a world where there's no advertising — essentially we'd be making some very... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

02 Feb 2017
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Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

the goals of her organization and her leadership role. “As CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes, we support about 350 individuals with intellectual disabilities in the community. “The basis of the organization is that... View Details

10 Apr 2013
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Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

model fits the practice of teleradiology. The article, titled "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services," was written by Huckman; Jonathan R. Clark (HBS PhDHP '10), Pennsylvania... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

01 Dec 2003
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Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

Summing Up What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund? In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column generated from View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Sep 2015
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Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

One economic problem is search costs—the time, money, and effort spent on researching which dog to adopt. Another is information asymmetry—in which one person involved in an economic transaction has more information than the other. “The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues associated with it. Â As the article... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

05 May 2003
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Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

positioning brands, directing marketing messages, and improving products and services may be leading away from vast surveys or focus group inquiries of consumers' conscious reactions. Instead, they may increasingly be replaced with interviews of small numbers of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

whether individuals could make a difference in laggard companies. She said one effective strategy for individuals is to back initiatives inside the company—everything from guest speakers to building... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

private investment lifecycle. Individual accounts are required to access. Strict data download limit. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds,... View Details

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Betas | Baker Library

Help Center Betas How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities,... View Details

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Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates

skills. In addition to offering a substantial benefits package that includes generous healthcare options and paid vacation for most full- and part-time Research Associates (RA), Harvard Business School (HBS) is home to a community of enthusiastic, motivated View Details

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1.1 HBS Community Values - MBA

supportive learning environment where individuals can have open discussion, reflect on their thinking, and learn from one another. Together with HBS’s Honor Code, our Community Values are intended to create an environment of trust,... View Details

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