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26 Jun 2019

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington, D.C.

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Supporting the Troops

(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

2009
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Preferences

By: S. McClure and Jason Riis

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias

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13 Apr 2012
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A Military Cornerstone

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

30 Jun 2010
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Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

The passing on June 28 of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia at 92, after a 51-year career in the Senate, triggered an outpouring of remembrances, positive and negative, of his long service on Capitol Hill. Serving in a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer

C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

2003
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Using Difference to Make a Difference

By: D. Meyerson and R. Ely

Keywords: Diversity; Power and Influence

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26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

straightjacket, even basic initiatives struggled to get traction. In an effort to boost tourism—a major contributor to the country’s economy—Samaras introduced a law that would allow hotels to shuttle passengers to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

April 2011
Teaching Note

Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (TN)

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

Teaching Note for 611057. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Rights; Infrastructure; Multinational Firms and Management; Research and Development; Complexity; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Motivation and Incentives; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Shanghai

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Are Imports to Blame?: Attribution of Injury Under the 1974 Trade Act

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Robert Pindyck

Keywords: Trade; Law

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Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity

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01 Mar 2006
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Presidential Adviser

When President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) went on the road in early January to promote his stalled economic policies, he was accompanied by his top economic adviser, Allan Hubbard (MBA ’72). It’s Hubbard’s job on such trips to sit down with the local media View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

May – June 2011
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Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness

By: Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein

Can groups become effective simply by assembling high status individual performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks.... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Equity; Theory; Human Resources; Integration; Body of Literature; Performance Effectiveness; Status and Position; Experience and Expertise

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April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
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Southern States Communications

By: Constance E. Bagley and Michael B. Keating

Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate the intellectual property rights of another sometimes have a tendency to ignore them after their technical staff advises them that the claims have no merit. Illustrates the perils of that... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation

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22 Nov 2015
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Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

research organizations and the political press to rethink labor laws for the digital age. “We have old rules about how you act as an employer,” said Ms. Sapone, 29, who started Hello Alfred with a Harvard... View Details

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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats - MBA

(as defined below) or ammunition, explosives, combustible fuels, fire-crackers, and potential ingredients thereof is forbidden by University policy. The applicable Massachusetts law is as follows: For the... View Details