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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
a consultant at Bain & Company in New York, with proposing that they be organized at all. Ballou-Aares worked for Bain in South Africa before receiving a joint degree from HBS and the Kennedy School. “Bain said that I could contribute up...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first...
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Nation, HuffPost, and The Atlantic. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report on free speech and the internet, and a Wikipedia Distinguished Service...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
healthy workers, benefit their reputations, and engender greater consumer and employee loyalty. Healthy communities also have more money to spend on non health care products and services than unhealthy ones. Underappreciated benefits...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the past year NISK itself has grown, and now its team of eight works with 50 clients. Kyarisiima acknowledges the life-changing...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
Boston Consulting Group study found that startups with at least one woman on the founding team garner less investment but earn more revenue. For every dollar of funding, the study found, teams co-founded by women generated 78 cents, while...
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- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Tierney (MBA 1980) from The Bridgespan Group, which provides leadership development consulting services to nonprofits. The panel, The Quest for Racial Justice: Making This a Movement, Not a Moment, moderator...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on performance pay before the U.S. Senate and served as a consultant to many international companies. The issue of to what extent the financial crisis was driven by misaligned pay incentives is one of the major concerns that spurred us to...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
surprising to Gordon. For the past year, she’s been helping build out this Havana-based travel and consulting business with her husband and brother-in-law and is reliant on a rising network of Cuban entrepreneurs to deliver deep, curated...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 06 Dec 2010
- News
Rebound in the Automotive Garage
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
the New York City-based consulting firm Katzenbach Partners and author of Why Pride Matters More Than Money (Crown, 2003), likes the story of the Wilmington plant because it communicates what he calls "institution-building...
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by Theodore Kinni
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Understand the evolving AI landscape and its impact on your business, whether you work in product,...
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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
and American Industry in Europe (1960). His 1989 Harvard Business Review article "General Managers in the Middle" was a bestseller for many years. Beyond the Harvard Business School campus, Uyterhoeven consulted regarding international...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
Hagiu and Altman provide a framework for doing so. They lay out four specific ways in which products and services can be turned into platforms and examine the strategic advantages and pitfalls of each: (1) opening the door to third...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Proceedings Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy By: Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers, and Michael Luca Abstract—The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim