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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins General Foods 1981 Joins McKinsey & Company 1983 Joins E.S....
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- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
people trying to do the perfect golf swing at the same time, all together, 200 times in a row." Like most of his peers, Coach P used a variety of quantifiable metrics for each rower to determine who...
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by Garry Emmons
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
US Pre-1950 Founder 43% Family Business 26% Other CEO 31% US 1950 & After Founder 32% Family Business 14% Other CEO 54% THE 20th CENTURY...
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907:...
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- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
Those years burst at the seams with experiences, lessons, and above all people I will never forget. I believe my time at HBS will be the same—and that excites me more than I can express. CLAIRE OSTERMAN / 1st Radio Battalion, I Marine...
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- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
vision to host a fundraiser that brought the entire community together – students, faculty, alumni, friends, and family. Creating a large-scale event from scratch was no easy feat, and we definitely had hiccups along the way, but the community embraced View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
have-to-do tasks day after day, week after week, many couples carve out special time and space for certain want-to-do moments they enjoy together: They work in the gardens on Saturdays; they share a kiss on weekdays before heading to the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
labeling conventions—representing, in the words of the authors, "an exercise in linguistics, not economics." Like Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concluded that concepts like time and distance depend on one's...
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by Julia Hanna
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on...
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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
Present: The Case of U.S. STEEL, 1930–1960 The U.S. Steel photograph collection, housed in Baker Library’s Special Collections, was brought to life—and the public eye—through an exhibition, catalog, and website that launched in November. At a View Details
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Demonstration Policy | About
amplified sound. Using public safety as their guide, HBS and Harvard administrators and security officers will determine the most appropriate means and time to address policy violations. If it is not...
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Brandon Lovell
Brandon's ambitions grew. "I realized," he says, "that to fulfill my aspirations to be a CEO I'd have to check a lot of boxes, both for optics and to give myself confidence." Given his experience at Year Up, where the...
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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
When given the choice of whom to work with, people will pick one person over another for any number of reasons: the prestige of being associated with a star performer, for example, or the hope that spending time with a strategically...
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by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- August 2009
- Supplement
The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (CW)
By: Willy C. Shih
When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and...
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- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Kominers: For the past six months, we’ve been tilting into a state of overall financial uncertainty. Crypto assets are very volatile, in part because there’s so much uncertainty about which crypto technologies are likely to be the most View Details
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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Jeff Barkas
My grandparents could do everything, until one day, they couldn’t. I was used to the weekends when I would play tennis matches and card games with my grandpa and enjoy my grandma’s famous chicken cutlets. They were so healthy into their...
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