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- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Unified Neighbors, and a new platform: the Internet. Hicks began growing the company, expanding into new markets, setting up a call center, and building a Web presence. She came to HBS to round out her education and then returned to Indianapolis as chief marketing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517122-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-080 OpenNotes In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
and formed her own real-estate company in the mid-1970s. "Real estate was booming in Washington at the time," she recalls, "and I started out renovating residential property. In 1979 I formed The Executive Office Group, a View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
forefathers of this concept. “We’re just fine-tuning it,” she said. “People have been attacking this space but no one has done it quite the same way we have.” Headquartered in New York with an office in Boston,... View Details
- Web
Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
invitation or permission? How do you prevent an office culture where employees of color are misnamed/confused for one another? How does your institution respond when the barriers to productivity are a direct result of racism, xenophobia,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
adds, "was to catch up with my classmates and share once again the spirit of our Section C." William G. Messenger (MBA '88) Drawn to a religious life as an Episcopal minister after launching a successful career in the high-tech industry,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
shared crowded dining facilities with Executive Education participants and had no place to study or hang out, forcing them to disperse to their dorms or off-campus residences. And the Au Bon Pain in Shad Hall was too small and limited in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
low-value assets in high-risk areas? In the long run it will not make economic sense for society to keep rebuilding homes that have been destroyed multiple times, or to raise ground floors in stores and office buildings that are barely... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
We are on the cusp of a new millennium; yet the face of corporate power in the United States remains overwhelmingly white. People of color hold less than 1 percent of all senior executive posts. But what about leaders such as Kenneth Chenault, president and chief... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
Inclusive Video Interviews When having an in-person interview, the backdrop is generally at your office or on campus. However, with virtual recruiting, interviews will often occur using video calls where the background may be the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
indifference for the destruction of Black bodies. 6. I am angry that hundreds of thousands have died because we can’t afford health care, housing, or basic safety nets for Americans, but we can equip police officers with weapons meant for... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
learning; when staff believe that support for learning-oriented culture, practices, and leadership is low, they may be less willing or able to share ideas. Purpose: We examined how staff perception of organizational support for learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. These efforts were only... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
and when should Cumplo begin to expand beyond Chile to other countries in Latin America? The company raised $1.4 million in its first three years, mainly from individual investors, and then issued new shares for $3 million in 2015. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace