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- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
without good followers. This question may be particularly significant in an age when followers find it easier to organize by means of the Internet at the same time that, in Kellerman's opinion, "cultural constraints against taking on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
SoftBank will be treated in the IPO and whether they will support WeWork by committing even more money. What’s to be learned? In sum, what can we learn from possibly the worst pre-IPO marketing example ever? No doubt Neumann has brought much of it on himself, starting... View Details
- Profile
Emily Schlichting
At age 19, in the spring of 2009, Emily Schlichting was diagnosed with Behcet's, a rare autoimmune disease that introduced her "to the realities of U.S. health care firsthand." Although the disease has proven manageable, her... View Details
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
age of diagnosis in early to middle adulthood. Rare diseases are plagued with delays in diagnosis, as well as frequent misdiagnoses (40% of cases) . Coupled with a lack of treatment options, this can result in significant and sometimes... View Details
- Web
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection, Harvard Business School , 2021.1 . © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. All Rights Reserved, DACS/ARS, NY 2023 . Born in London in 1962, Yinka Shonibare moved to Lagos, Nigeria, at age three. He returned to the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
The World Bank estimates that the equivalent of $1 trillion is offered in bribes every year. In the age of globalization, it's easy to see how giving into bribery might be competitively advantageous. In fact, research by Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
– Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children and adolescents: 90% of infants use screen devices before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
Shapes Business, Economy & Society (Stanford Business Books, 2021). Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear (University of Chicago Press, 2022) Your feedback to last month’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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HBS - The year in Review
size of discussion groups for better engagement, finding new ways for participants to network and socialize virtually, and increasing virtual access to case protagonists. Post-program surveys revealed very strong satisfaction scores. Seven new programs were introduced,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Approaches to Diversity Recruitment” (September 2023). Tsedal Neeley : Winner of the 2024 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal in the Emerging Trends/AI category for The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
says, that big seat as bioMérieux CEO at the age of 33. Now just 41, this man, who says he never wants to regret a thing, who was recruited to lead giant companies being traded on NASDAQ and NYSE, and who is willing to admit that he... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
novel” To gauge the impact of receiving what economists call a “cashflow shock,” researchers looked at the introduction of Medicare Part D, which expanded coverage for patients over the age of 65. That would result in more drug sales,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
Myself.” Stephanie Myles (she/her/hers), Class of 2021 “I read fanfiction that involved women being together. I watched the L-Word online. I was a huge TiBette fan. I perused online forums for queer POC. By age 14, I was in a... View Details