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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses, which tend to be heavily credit dependent. While some aspects of the economy have recovered in the years since, small businesses have struggled, primarily due...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
skill of microtargeting — identifying small, intense subgroups and communicating with them about their individual needs and wants — has never been more critical in marketing or in political campaigns. The one-size-fits-all approach to the...
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Government
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
observed gaps in the prescribing rates of new medicines,” according to the study. The second experiment evaluated the behaviors of 275 patients with hypertension. Patients viewed clinical trial evidence for drugs along with the percentage...
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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
identify specific managerial actions that can improve a firm’s architecture and thereby lower the cost of responding to changing future demands. We address this gap in the literature by exploring the relationship between IT architecture...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the Nigerian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you operate within your organization and deal with both those above you...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
climate change. More recently, JPMorgan Chase made a major effort to improve the economic vitality of Detroit. The second false assumption is that lower and middle managers cannot help their companies explore the profit potential of...
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by George Serafeim
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
have owned started out as a disruptive company.— Clayton M. Christensen Copying the management best practices of leading firms isn't necessarily the answer, Christensen said. When inventors in the Middle Ages tried to invent a contraption...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the business side of peace.” “Peace in the Middle East,” he says, “will...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going...
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- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
lending encouragement to his colleague, and some friendly pressure to get his application in. From HBS, Tingle was looking to gain skills and experience he could take back with him to investing, either going back to private equity or...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray...
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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Ventures—for three months to create the landmark conference. The full recording of the program is available at hbsangels.com/annual-conference. Toronto Panel Grapples with Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) A Network for Life “We were just a group of friends, bringing our skill sets from our jobs, to help Avi,” says Amy Yamner Jenkins (MBA 2006), who became very close to classmate Avi Kremer in the weeks after his...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Books Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations...
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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Stable category meanings act as institutions that facilitate market exchange by providing bases for comparison and valuation. Yet little is known about meaning construction in new categories or how meaning translates into valuation...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of empathy and skills as a communicator and connector. When James Harmon, chairman of the...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance