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Commencement 2015 Address | About
into the air and did a somersault. Without skipping a beat, he told the class “zero gravity never gets old.” You see, he was speaking to us live from the International Space Station. Only at Harvard Business School can you have a class...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced during each phase of her career and how she managed them. Lagarde started her career in 1981 as a lawyer at the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
international competition. That was a sign that the US was not doing well in businesses that have to compete internationally. The data also showed what many had known—that wages started stagnating well over a decade ago. The participation...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
ambitious, alumni-led space program gets off the ground An Alumni Club for the Cosmos But sending a rocket into space and landing it back on Earth wasn’t just an important internal milestone for Blue Origin or a memorable life experience...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
aren't likely to slow anytime soon. The number of robots will double this year from 2016 and rise at least three-fold by 2025, researchers estimate, citing figures including those from the International Federation of Robotics. And US...
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- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
H-1B visa, the ticket to temporary employment for skilled immigrants that can lead to the coveted “green card” providing permanent residency. Along with college admissions of international students and and new hires by non-profit...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
loved her job and did not want to make the sacrifices a promotion would entail, she was overcome by a sense of contentment. Balancing inside and outside pressures when choosing a career is a monumental task, but the first step is acknowledging those View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
itself, but also the respondent’s internal response to the event. “It was like they often couldn’t talk about the event without talking about how it made them feel and what it made them think,” Amabile says. “We found that people were...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015
Amgen, not least because it contravened Amgen's mission. Internal debate was exacerbated by the presence of considerable uncertainty over the regulatory requirements for BS development and how difficult it would be to develop a BS. Some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
honor achievements for the benefit of mankind. Longevity: The prizes have been awarded since 1901. Urde and Greyser note that the international prizes made a big impression from the beginning because they were established during a time of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
"Instead of an outside regulation, an internal governance on salary structure, which is based on a value that 'Every employee should go home with a smile on his face' will create win-win situations for employees and...
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- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
will be in determining how to make that work," Battilana says. "The investment world needs to figure out financing solutions that will fit these models." Thinking Locally The data also showed a rise in the number of international...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
means loyalty to people from the same village, but extends outward in principle to emphasize trusted personal relationships in every aspect of society. In a paper published in the December 2011 Journal of International Business Studies,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
divided the corresponding sample of 100 manufacturers into innovators and imitators, identifying a company as an innovator if it had been selected for or received the coveted Compasso d'Oro, a prestigious international prize awarded to...
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- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
consulting, architecture, engineering, research, and, increasingly, computer software development and technology systems integration firms. We also seek an international mix of participants. About half come from the US and the other half...
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- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
career development. “Organizations should have ERGs by affinity groups, specifically Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, women, and LGBTQ. Depending on the nature of the organization, there may be other groups as well such as a group for those with View Details
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All Industries
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
“That can cause people to set their internal GPS to something that doesn't necessarily align with their values—and I don't think that that tradeoff has to be there. I think that people can engage in more daring recruitment efforts and...
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- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS
hands dirty on a really granular project – were all elements of entrepreneurship. The issue was that I had become accustomed to a specific archetype of an entrepreneur and that archetype looked nothing like me. I didn’t want to be building the next huge View Details