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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

earth. Now, he and an all-star team aim to rescue the U.S. economy.” — Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor-at-large Fortune magazine, 2012 Read More About Michael Porter Michael Porter Biography Michael Porter is the founder of the modern... View Details

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

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01 Dec 2021
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How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Sep 2023
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How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All? Is AI Coming for Your Job? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: AI Generation View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

research—and how academics could better help improve the work of government. The workshop is just one example of how HBS scholars are using their research to make a difference in government policy. Some, like Michael E. Porter or Federal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details

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27 Jun 2019
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Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the developing world has become a center... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006

Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2024
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Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

what will work. Published with permission by Springer. Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are) Empower Your Employees to Make Better... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jul 2022
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Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

Like: Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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South Asia - Global

(Harvard AB (1963) and HBS AMP 91 (1983)) recounted his life and work in conversation with Manish Kejriwal, Managing Partner at Kedaara Capital (HBS MBA 1995). He discussed his memoir ‘Another Sort of Freedom’, which explores his teenage... View Details

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

13 Aug 2018
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Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

This summer, while most of my classmates pursued internships, I decided to work full-time on my start-up ‘smoodi’, which I recently incorporated. It’s been an amazing experience and I’m grateful for the support I received as a Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from diverse ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds into View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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clothing, print & digital materials, etc., for their own non-school sanctioned events. Exceptions are made for school-sanctioned events (contact Alumni Communications ) and Reunions (contact Reunions team ), and alumni clubs-sanctioned... View Details

26 Sep 2019
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What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

traumatic experiences and deep uncertainty about one's future erode or elevate the psychosocial benefits of work. Starting this winter, the team will compare how 1,000 Rohingya households at the Kutupalong camp react to one of three... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Apr 2017
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Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

units—Development & Finance, Product Development, or Asset Management. Our full-time MBAs primarily work within one discipline that matches their past experience and interests to gain subject matter expertise in a certain function of... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

26 Mar 2024
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How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

the (Proverbial) Fireworks Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Designer's note: Image created uses elements from... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

07 Feb 2005
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How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

approximately 3,200 executives who took biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996; these data show that almost one quarter of these firms had someone on their IPO team who once worked at Baxter. Even after... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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