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24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

program requires all students in Danish public schools to take a series of standardized tests from second grade through eighth grade—roughly age eight through age 15. As it happens, students are randomly... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

style. One of the most influential lessons for my leadership development was the HBS four-step process for delivering effective feedback and coaching—a process that I now apply on a daily basis." Dr. Patricia Hewston Post-Doctoral Fellow at GERAS Centre for View Details

04 Mar 2019
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What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

control of human behavior by totalitarian government, replacing human hopes, emotions, and even relationships with an “inside out” dominance over human thought and behavior by an all-seeing entity called Big Brother. In the recent book The View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a prescription he received at the age of 17 after... View Details

March 2014
Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

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09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

industries—forget about across industries—in agreeing on what is appropriate. I don't think it's because they don't want to; it's because they have different values, which in the end come down to details: What is child labor? What types of factory jobs, if any, are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

helps drive innovation and growth—and could even become more vital to global competitiveness in the future. “The debate is red-hot right now, but in the background, the workforces are rapidly aging in most advanced countries, and public... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

strategies that brand managers have used in order to cope with it. Avery recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss their findings. According to the paper, consumers are operating in four concurrent Web-based eras: The Age of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

the age of fossil fuels. Heavy industry accounts for more than 30% of global emissions that cannot be mitigated by today’s technology. A complete energy transition will require sustainable hydrogen to power heavy industry and beyond.... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

discussion around one’s relationship with money. Most adults have very different perspectives on money and typically this is rooted in deep family or personal experiences, sometimes starting in early childhood. A parent losing a job, having to work at a young View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Events - Creating Emerging Markets

to generate new repositories of primary data in the current age of digital media and audio-visual technologies. A Panel was devoted to showing how the CEM database was generating new insights into entrepreneurship, economic growth, and... View Details

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

study confirming this was done by a group of researchers, Merton Reznikoff, George Domino, Carolyn Bridges, and Merton Honeymon, who studied creative abilities in 117 pairs of identical and fraternal twins. Testing twins aged fifteen to... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

pricing. The September 14, 1998 issue of Advertising Age reports that the percentage of marketers who compensate agencies on billings (media purchases) dropped from 71 percent in 1983 to 35 percent in 1997. Furthermore, the average profit... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

of the world. Desiree Rogers: I feel that it’s so important to have multiple voices across races, socioeconomic, and also age at the table. Gerald Schwartz: Don’t do anything in your life that you don’t like doing or be with people you... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

Portrait Project

Jeff Barkas

good days were spent signing legal and financial documents. Their passing has given me a new sense of purpose — to ensure that other families avoid a similar experience. I’m starting a company that helps families prepare for aging so that... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Taxis." Harvard Business School Case 225-038, October 2024. (Revised October 2024.) Allurion: Competing in the Age of GLP-1 By: Satish Tadikonda , Rajiv Lal , David Lane and Sarah Sasso October 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Shantanu Gaur... View Details

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Cumnock Hall | About

Textile School—the first school in Massachusetts where the theory and technique of textile manufacturing was taught. He acquired the Appleton mill with a group of family and friends and headed the company until his death, when his son Arthur took over management of the... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

age after World War II, the firm supported established companies like IBM (International Business Machines) as well as emerging enterprises such as DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which produced a second generation of less expensive,... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High... View Details

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