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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
definition you use. Since the owner’s looking for a loan from the bank, he’s obliged to accept the bank’s definition even though it’s different from his definition.” Professor Vancil watched me while I spoke, and when I finished, he let...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
headquarters in Boston. Rather than hope that train fares and property tax payments eventually make their way into a public good, New Balance built the station themselves so they could watch the use of every penny—even as the general...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
his former students...on a one-to-one basis," explains Robert McCabe (HBS MBA '58). "He took great pleasure from watching their growing success in business and in life. His loyalty to them...knew no bounds. They were his family." 23...
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
in international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies enter the digital health...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
they might have been interested in this kind of opportunity. About half said they would have done such a program, so we knew there would be enough interest. We’ve admitted about 30 students per cohort each year since the two-year program began in 2018. It’s been...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Settlement, under the control of Britain and the United States since 1863, all able-bodied men were encouraged to join the battle. Moore and several others signed up and were issued bandoliers, rifles, and bayonets. They stood watch over...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
well (and no one is there to watch you). Exercise is also an area where individuals have a great deal of control, which makes it a therapeutic activity in times of uncertainty. Short-term bursts of strenuous activity are not only...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
issue with a colleague in which we looked at feminist perspectives on a lot of topics, and I took on organizations. I had some early insights, though they were very hard to articulate, and they all entered into this project that became Men and Women of the Corporation....
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by Robin J. Ely
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
among all the groups and individuals involved. Key among them was the "dailies"—gatherings of Pixar staff to watch and discuss presentations of work in progress. Such meetings occurred at other studios too, but at Pixar a wide array of...
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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
report data from an experiment where subjects in a Willpower Treatment are asked to resist the temptation to join others in watching a humorous video for 10 minutes. In relation to a baseline treatment that does not require willpower, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
for anyone who has watched their business — or job — go overseas. As the 2004 presidential election nears, many wonder if, when, and how the issue will be addressed. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow has visited China in an effort to...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
goods would grow from 2 percent to 20 percent of the consumer market over the next five years. From a sector perspective, mall specialty stores that sell goods such as toys or watches should do well, said Biyani. Moderator Rangan wondered...
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- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
to produce our own recordings or music videos. More importantly, we reached a much broader audience outside the HBS campus. Recording Software It’s not too late to watch the concert! You can check out the recording of the performance...
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- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
food and water is the perfect sector to bridge sustainability and business vision”. Watch highlights from the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club Conference: View Video Sustainability Club: The Rise of Corporate Sustainability “The Rise of...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Nominating Committee for the next two years and look forward to watching Susan lead us to the next level. These are exciting times for HBS alumni, and I truly feel that the Board can and does make a difference to all of us. Edmund A....
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John Hoffman
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
American artists at the beginning of their careers in, say, the early 90s, and then watching them become global superstars. And all of that led to a mounting curiosity that by the late 1990s, I decided I wanted to study art history...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
on-demand programming. Priced at $39.99 per month, Hulu Live TV offered consumers a tremendous savings over traditional cable program packages and allowed subscribers to watch programs on Internet-connected televisions and a wide range of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
workplace for evidence of discrimination. "We know racism and sexism exist. The question is what can we do about it? Does evaluating the evaluators change discrimination? Does the fact that I know I'm being watched change my...
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