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- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at HBS and the HBS Business History View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the...
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Valerie Porciello | About
onboarding, appointments and reviews, planning and staffing, and the allocation of research funding and other support resources to more than 300 faculty members, as well as initiatives related to faculty culture, mentoring, engagement,...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
father's travels provided me with a broadening experience," says Porter, at ease between sips from a can of diet soda, "and athletics offered an outlet for competing while exposing me to the importance of self-discipline and thorough...
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James E. Aisner
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate that had been outlined in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
clear that cities offer the greatest hope (and have the biggest stake) in stewarding ever-scarcer resources such as water and power. Cities represent 70 percent of carbon emissions, according to a 2021 McKinsey report; and given their...
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sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
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Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
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Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
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Ellen Desmarais | About
products and offerings, including the flagship Harvard Business Review. HBP’s annual revenues exceed $300 million and its offerings reach nearly 13 million faculty, students, and professionals in 230 countries annually. As Co-President,...
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- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
2003), president of the HBS Club of Japan, ended the program. During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting...
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- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries,...
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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to develop leadership skills critical for modern governance. The program is designed to build on the HBS commitment to lifelong learning while contributing to the impact of the nonprofit sector through rigorous examination of the essential roles and practices of board...
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- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
averted pollution laws in many countries over a ten-year period. The second involves Zappos’ sudden initiative to eliminate all but one manager, the CEO. The two examples share at least one thing in common: they both involve changing...
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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity
harassment they experienced and how it affected them, as well as what organizational features were associated with more or less sexual misconduct. This brief report offers a snapshot of the key themes which emerged. Work & Life Juggling...
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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
productivity would improve—especially as the bricks-and-clicks retail model worked in an increasingly coordinated manner to offer the consumer a seamless shopping experience. The Internet Threat While recent retail sales figures seem to...
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- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
Pinkham Notch, NH to test a new version of the boot. Participants were put in groups based on foot size, given two to three pairs of boots — the new Cresta Hiker, as well as the very best competitive offerings — and were instructed to...
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by David A. Garvin
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
subscription offer, introduced in fiscal 2019, that enables readers to choose between a digital, digital and print, or premium subscription. The offer helped attract a record monthly average of nearly 12 million visitors to the HBR.org...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
would go into biotech and genetics," he says of his initial ambitions. But after two years as a lab assistant at Louisiana State University, he found that, although the science was "fascinating," the work was "lonely,...
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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,...
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by Paul Michelman
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
the Initiative ended last December with the announcement that HBS graduates from across Canada had raised $20 million (Canadian) to create the Canadian Financial Aid Program. Barford continues to work with the School as chairman of the...
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