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- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
listen, realizing that the boy was releasing the small stones at consistent intervals. The young man had a terrific gift for precision and a keen focus, revealing capabilities that reached beyond his disabilities. The encounter...
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Jennifer Myers
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in Eastern and Central Europe, has suffered significant declines in its financial performance, is at risk of defaulting on its debt, and is under pressure from its largest shareholders to give them control of the board and to restructure...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
Associates, Robert Waldron turned a company that was in decline in 2008 into a profitable $190-million business 10 years later by developing online learning tools as well as print workbooks for schools. In 2017, the company gifted the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
99. Yes, that’s true. Richard Gere picked up a case of Pellegrino from us, Barbara Bush purchased gift wrap, and Vanna White bought some toothpaste, believe it or not. Elizabeth Taylor even wore some very stylish reading glasses that she...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
inflection point today, and we must seize the opportunities before us that are central to our mission. Let me give you an example. In the coming years, the leaders of major enterprises will need a truly global perspective. Events such as...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors discuss four types of highly successful “business builder” personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain, each...
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Investors Society Report - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
the HBS Fund to foster innovation while also strengthening core programs and priorities. This report, produced specially for members, highlights examples of activities that you helped make possible. $33.5M Total gifts from Investors...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
highly-diversified food service company into what became a highly-focused Dunkin Donuts. I will always be grateful to Professor Salmon for his training and wisdom in those HBS years and in the time and counsel he provided me in subsequent years. He was truly a View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
signaled by public market shifts. Becoming the Boss Author:Linda A. Hill Periodical:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 1 (January 2007) Abstract Even for the most gifted individuals, the process of becoming a leader is an arduous, albeit...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
$1 million annually in cash and in-kind gifts and helping the organization to expand nationally. City Year in turn played a central role in helping Timberland develop and implement its strategy for community service and a high-engagement...
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by James Austin
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
drives to acquire and to bond are in tension with each other because the first is competitive and the second cooperative. A major part of management is to keep these two drives in healthy balance, for example by giving rewards for both...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
drives to acquire and to bond are in tension with each other because the first is competitive and the second cooperative. A major part of management is to keep these two drives in healthy balance, for example by giving rewards for both...
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- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
what I had. Hanna: And a lot of people may not know what that was like, would you mind talking about that a little bit, just to give us a sense of it? Switz: Absolutely. I think many people don't know what a psychotic break looks like and...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
into the vision for an Allston campus, which had been put on hold during the financial crisis. Then the magnificent gift from John Paulson (MBA 1980) allowed the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ move to Allston to become a...
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- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
forgotten figures to light, and how her finance career prepared her for assembling an art exhibition. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Denise, can you just tell me about the process by which you began thinking about a career in art history? You worked in finance for 25 years. I...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Investments' Charitable Gift Fund (A) Harvard Business School Case 309-002 Deborah Pege, an attorney at Fidelity Investments, needs to decide whether Fidelity should attempt to patent business processes involved with its new charitable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
2018 Redwood City, Stanford Business Books The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
strategic priorities. This article explains core links between selling initiatives and basic drivers of enterprise value, and it provides suggestions about how best to communicate strategy to busy people in the field. May 2015 Management Science When 3+1>4: View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from mistakes can give managers an instinct for better navigating through the minefield the next time around. To illustrate how powerfully managers' prior experiences can shape the skills that they bring to a new assignment, let us...
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by Michael Raynor