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- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
hockey. One of his Frozen Assets teammates, who met him on the ice some 50 years ago, says McNerney remains the player who makes other people better. He sets them up for a shot and passes the puck at the right moment—sacrificing his own...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
requesting them. Still slated to lose their jobs, the workers built cars so efficiently that they earned the right to a new-car launch. And when the time came to shut the plant down, headquarters had to refuse: The employees at Wilmington...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
organizations, a deep sense of purpose was their key to growth. Humans are wired to find meaning in what we do, and tapping into that can have a transformative effect on an organization—and the people who work there. Here, in a...
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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
because I didn’t live in San Francisco. So Reddit is headquartered in San Francisco. I live in New York. I’m a diehard New Yorker. But a friend got the call and he said, it’s not right for me, but I think you should call Jen. I think...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
you didn’t talk to the right men,’” says Ely, whose team interviewed 33 women consultants and 74 men consultants from the firm’s four largest US offices, as well as four senior leaders in human resources. In...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech on the power of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO of a Massachusetts company...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Thousands of large, profitable companies have all the right intentions of giving back to society—and yet a sizable number of them have corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that provide little benefit to either the community or...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
toss—and the pressure of real-world negotiations probably makes our actual performance even worse. Sometimes we don't realize we're being conned; other times, we wrongly suspect people who are telling us nothing but the truth. Fortunately, those skilled in View Details
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by Michael Wheeler
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa (Harvard Business School Press) Decision-making is a major part of life for every human being. Where should you live? Which house should you buy? Is it time to change...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
that don’t exist right now. How confident are you that policymakers will take your warnings seriously? I think it’s just human nature that we’re going to wait till we’re over the edge. But I actually think...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
forgotten sectionmate. Following are brief updates on some of the more far-flung members of the Class of 1977. Whether their life journeys have led them to distant parts of the globe, down untraditional career paths, or on quests for inner knowledge, their stories are...
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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
"improbable" emergence and expansion of that business to investigate the challenges and opportunities faced by an individual who seeks to build an enterprise around his own human capital. It includes background information on...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
non-obvious, second-order effects—things we can't see clearly right now. The human tendency in trying to predict what will happen in the future is to extrapolate in a straight line from today. So we imagine...
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- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
across the country. It is no surprise to most that human activities are taking a toll on the composition of Earth’s atmosphere. These changes have been linked to not only adverse reactions in environmental systems, but also significant...
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