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Aldrich Hall | About
Aldrich Hall Aldrich Hall was made possible through a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and is named in honor of his father-in-law, Nelson W. Aldrich. When it opened in 1953, Aldrich Hall provided much-needed classroom space on the HBS...
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- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified...
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- 03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare...
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- 15 Aug 2022
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University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS—explores the many ways the three countries have made their mark in higher education over the past two centuries. Here are five excerpts from...
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- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
replacing one toxic worker, which is almost double the figure a company gains from hiring a “superstar.” A superstar in the top 1 percent of performers adds $5,303 in increased performance to a company’s profit, Minor’s paper Toxic...
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by Roberta Holland
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Thomas Graeber , Kevin Mohan , Kym Nelson , Julian J. Zlatev Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Livia Alfonsi , Max H. Bazerman , Alex Chan , Jillian Jordan Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Alison Wood Brooks Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a...
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Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course wins. Of course, when both...
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by Deepak Malhotra
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Dillon House | About
in government. During World War I, Dillon served on the War Industries Board, which coordinated the purchase of war supplies. Dillon’s gift to...
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Greenhill House | About
1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A. Hanna Company and consulted with the US government on industrial initiatives in post-World View Details
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McCulloch Hall | About
McCulloch Hall McCulloch Hall is one of seven buildings named for notable secretaries of the United States Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker. McCulloch Hall is named for Hugh McCulloch. McCulloch Hall is an MBA student...
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
administered over its trade began to diminish. After the end of the First Opium War in 1842 and subsequent Treaty of Nanking, additional ports were open including the newly formed British colony of hong Kong. By 1843, the Canton trade...
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- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace...
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Teele Hall | About
to receive MBAs (1960). Teele, who received the second doctoral degree awarded by HBS in 1933, spent two years in business before joining the HBS faculty in 1935 as an assistant professor of marketing. He became a full professor in 1944. During World View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History
Moss thinks; his own opinions are hidden behind a scholarly calm and the quiet joy he takes at playing devil’s advocate. This is a question of what the historical record—here, the case, filled with exhibits on View Details
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April White
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods and, with it, the need for eye-catching, widespread advertising. Capitalizing View Details
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
power has on the psychology of those in power: It makes them overconfident and susceptible to hubris, and it makes them more self-centered and insensitive to others,” Battilana says. And if a CEO can’t or won’t cultivate humility and...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
their ground-breaking book Boys in the Barracks. Presented from the perspective of soldiers who are preparing for war during peace time, Boys in the Barracks shares the mundane, the exhilarating and the humorous aspects of life in the...
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