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- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
strategy work, contributing to the institution’s five-year plans and analyzing business cases for new investments. “As Chief of Staff at Boston Ballet, I have a lot of indirect management,” Ming explains. “I don’t have my own team per se, but I have a lot of...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
telecommuting is "dangerous to health"—the title of the column that prompted these responses—depends on several factors ranging from organizational culture and job type to skill level and personality. Eleanor Latimer adds another factor, the age of the...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
to avoid what discourages you. If I had advice for other HBS students and alumni, it would be to diversify your experiences and exposure, develop and foster a network of friends to keep in touch with after HBS, and to participate more in...
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- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
multiple generations of technology. Microsoft and IBM perhaps? Yet no one is pointing to them as bastions of novel and breakthrough ideas! It's easy to point to specific design decisions as the cause of...
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- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the increasing inscrutability and waste of technological innovations from a user's View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of...
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- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
explains. "And the same may be true about inequality and our inability at this point to say much about its effects. The problem may be that we don't yet know enough about mechanism." Moss followed the same logic working with...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
deals with ethics, governance, and legal issues. “At that point the case changed to focus on tensions between pricing as a reward for investment in R&D versus making a product available to poor people who will die without it,” says...
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- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q:...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
he’d reached at the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench; 8,376 meters—now he had surpassed the deepest point he’d ever taken the Limiting Factor, on an earlier descent to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. His board was green—all...
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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior research on Minneapolis has...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
Investing: Emerging Trends in a Changing Landscape," a recent panel discussion hosted by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. They also touched on growing trends including venture philanthropy and social impact...
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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 human...
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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
things, there is a transition to get through. The two-finger typist who wants to learn to touch type will suffer a performance decrement when he makes the shift. The idea was to improve performance by learning a new skill (e.g., View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
processes, a lack of technical mastery, and a touch of lassitude — was one of Enron’s greatest points of vulnerability. — Malcolm S. Salter is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration,...
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
maintain the diversity already present in your talent pool ? Because we are multifaceted individuals, we have multiple identities and sites for potential understanding. Are you listening to the pain points they express (if there are...
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- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
work has touched our lives.” A woman from North Carolina, whose search of JRI-Poland led directly to cousins in Sweden, Hungary, Israel, and Canada, has told Diamond, “You changed my life.” “People have found family they were never able...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Hollywood." Verba says he came to his reunion "to see the people with whom I both worked and played hard for two great years at HBS. I wanted to catch up with the professors and point out where they were right and where things have...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online and off, into a flurry of analysis and speculation over a product that few have yet View Details