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- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a...
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by Joseph Fuller
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
provide high-quality, relevant education and training in interpersonal skills to students who may not have planned to go to college,” says Bichara. “We want to prepare them to understand and play an important role in the 21st-century...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
decision-making to negotiation. HBX Live is a virtual HBS classroom experience bringing together participants from around the world. Bridges, a three-day capstone course introduced in 2015, gives graduating MBA students an opportunity to reflect on their time at the...
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- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
with these messy, complicated sets of challenges. My focus for participants will be on questions such as: What is the role of activists in transforming organizations? What is the game plan for getting your View Details
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
Developing a personalized "self-awareness" plan of action to use after graduation. Such a plan should include, but not be limited to, reflections on your footprint and...
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
the work, not to mention the volume, is staggering. Just a few of the actions taken by the agency this past summer include: Licensed a new vaccine, ACAM2000, to protect against smallpox. Warned consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested...
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- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Propose an action plan for a startup platform, Picabuu, to address a network property of your choice Module Review and Capstone 7 hrs Module 4 Transforming into a Platform Firm Explain the benefits of...
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- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
Competition and plans to expand to other African nations. Karan Khimji: Eliminating carbon dioxide from the air Karan Khimji felt compelled to play his part in mitigating climate change after seeing the effects first-hand in Oman....
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
education in local communities? To switch to renewable power? All of these actions might improve social welfare, and some of them might improve profitability, but they are very different, and the business case for each of them is...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
believed that these holdout creditors created "collective action problems" and presented a major obstacle to successful sovereign debt restructurings. On the other hand, other observers argued that activist investors actually...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods....
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
With travel restrictions and physical distancing recommendations in place, organizations planning to hire full-time employees or interns in the coming year are reviewing their recruiting processes and seeking to innovate. For some,...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
contrast to planning and planners, "What managers manage is largely invisible—processes and handoffs between functions...typically without data." Trevor Rose says that there is "less interest in implementing strategy. It's...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing...
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- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Limor Moshkovich
few years ago. I asked them how they arrived at their current positions and was able to relate their career paths to my own." Reflection and action HBS, Limor notes, "puts a lot of emphasis on exposing us to the world, to the...
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