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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
very different perspective. Then George joined us the third year. I have to say that I had never realized how important accounting was to the future of civilization until I started working with George. We can talk about saving the planet, but if you can’t measure it...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book is an invaluable resource for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
ability to deceive the receiver about the monetary amount. Not surprisingly, senders were more likely to deceive strangers than friends, and receivers were more suspicious of strangers than friends. When senders lied, they stated their offer more times and gave more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is an economics-centered, multidisciplinary program...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
book deals with two of the biggest problems in business: Why do sane, smart leaders often refuse to accept the facts that threaten their companies? And how do they find the courage to resist denial when facing new trends, changing markets, and tough new competitors?...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the...
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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks the growth of the subprime industry and its collapse leading to the financial crisis. The case describes the business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
philosophy are flawed? What if intellectual capital rather than financial capital was the scarce resource, as it is in many companies today? Unlike financial resources, an organization's vital information,...
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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
combination, the two chemicals can form kidney-blocking crystals that cause renal failure). “I think it would be hard to make a blanket statement about all Chinese companies,” continues Gisholt. “There are some good facilities and...
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- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
College, and dozens of majority Black talent development organizations like Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), have prepared Black professionals to thrive in spite of covert and overt racism for decades. Although I'm a beneficiary...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
things like helping the pool attendant put towels on the chaise longues. It was a family business, so we were all involved.” Tisch Hotels evolved into the Loews Corporation, one of the largest diversified financial enterprises in the...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
give-and-take among students, professor, and manager, the class touched on the tension between the romance of ideas and the reality of enterprises, the conflicting motivations of the participants in an immature business, and the staged growth and resource needs of a...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
and—inspired by a guest speaker, an electrical engineer who said he made $300 a week, a distant dream to a boy in his circumstances—an electrical engineer. But given his family's financial limitations, college was not a realistic hope for...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
than those in all other states. Was there ever any question that you would join the family grocery business? Not really. I went to HBS to prepare for the job. Being ambitious and energetic, I assumed a responsible position almost...
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Susan Young
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An entrepreneurial firm with limited...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
while preparing for the future and emerging as a less provincial financial group. In 2012 she reflected on the change efforts and the opportunities and challenges ahead. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne