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- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
solve crimes after they occur. They are phenomenal at that, as in the way they tracked down the Lockerbie perpetrators, to cite one case. That's a very different role from preventing terrorist attacks before they occur, which is their top...
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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
from several different Harvard departments, as well as public officials and engineering firms. The criteria are: quality of life, leadership, resources allocation, natural world, and climate and risk. It’s a rare project that can score high in all these categories but...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
that, how to share information efficiently within a company, new ways to share information with suppliers and customers — those elements of the new economy are unstoppable. How job has changed in last five years Dramatic growth. Five...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
development services. The Executive Education Alumni Committee, chaired by Laura Teller (MBA ’84), organized a series of focus-group discussions held on and off campus to identify ways to strengthen the School’s relationship with...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
tour promoting his first book, MouthSounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success, the same fly imitation landed Newman a job as the host of Nickelodeon’s teen talk show Livewire. Since then he has hosted The...
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- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50453 November 2, 2015 Harvard Business Review The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Daniel Weinfurter Abstract—Companies typically spend more on...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Laura Arjona
electrical engineering from the University of Florida. Laura followed suit, obtaining a scholarship to Rice University, where she studied mechanical engineering. "I was always analytical and good at math," she says. "Engineering was not only a good fit,...
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Benjamin Wells
arrive at a way to figure it out." Ben will faces new challenges in his internship with The Parthenon Group, where he will consult on a mix of projects that will include education "and more traditional industries that will...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
with someone until we meet in person. What is your strategy when it comes to making the Internet work for your clients? People think online dating is an efficient way to get to know someone, and it’s not. It’s just an efficient View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
in so many ways in terms of who I am, where I come from, and what I want to do,” Hussein concludes. “My goal is becoming a reality.” — GE Laura Dillon Course Correction Dillon As a veteran sailor (she began competing internationally at...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Author:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
bringing people around to your point of view. It meant thinking in the broadest possible terms about personal and corporate responsibilities. We’ve come a long way since then. We built a remarkable campus, thanks to George F. Baker’s...
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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and education is the best View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
hastening to add that he had no special inside knowledge about the team. Baumgartner’s remarks are in italics. They are followed by my own summary “take-aways” that his comments brought to my mind (but in no way are meant to imply that...
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- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
prying into other people's lives. But online enables "a very delicate way for me to pry into your life without really prying," the researcher says. "Harvard undergrads do it all the time. They know all about each other...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
housing bubble and a new, but untested, financial system,” one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood. If, like me, you’re still trying to understand how we got here and what’s to be done, the...
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- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Abstract What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
independent filmmakers and distributors could find a mutually beneficial way to work together, to make it a win-win collaboration,” says Pullapilly. After some research, Elberse’s students suggested the filmmakers approach Terra Chips as...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue...
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