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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
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also includes a section about Germany's similar experience with Internet commercialization, as well as contributions from ten industry participants and observers. “Unless fundamental changes are made,” Mills says, “another bubble is a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other Initiatives: View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
regular reunion attendee, class volunteer, and a past member of the HBS Visiting Committee, Tisch currently serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. His strong interest in strategic philanthropy led him to get involved with the School’s View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive environment was one in which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
INSEAD’s Mark Mortensen, Neeley says, “We find that distributed collaborators have always gained much from direct knowledge acquired during site visits. As for reflected knowledge, we believe its contribution to greater self-understanding...
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- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
contributions to put food, including Thanksgiving turkeys, on the tables of their less-fortunate coworkers, regardless of what a cynical outside world might think. The annual employee turnover rate is 70 percent, not especially high for a...
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- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
2024) and Tristan Bagala (MBA 2023), who are set on a path to pursue personally meaningful work that contributes to the greater good of society. “What I hope to do is to help others. That is why I’m here. Through this funding support, HBS...
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April White
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
more diverse, it is likely that only a few relatives per generation will directly work in the business. Outside-the-business members might still support family philanthropic efforts or social activities, and sometimes that level of...
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by Michael J. Roberts
- Profile
Dominic Mensah
Coming to HBS is like... Entering a journey of self-reflection on and immersion in your purpose. It is a courageous leap of faith—a deliberate choice to forgo a “safer” path and confront passion head-on. Before HBS, I balanced a role in strategy consulting with a...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
socially responsible investing was in its infancy; the now-common phrase impact investing had been coined just a few months earlier. For the first eight years of the fund’s existence, Fenwick-Smith was raising money, but he couldn’t wait...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
eight years of his mayoralty.) The project remains unpopular with a portion of the city’s voters, who don’t believe the government should be investing in a neighborhood that has existed for decades without contributing to the city’s tax...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
(MBA ’91), and Alex Gutierrez (MBA ’99). Photo courtesy Nan Coulter The HBS Club of Dallas held its third annual Crimson Charity Gala on May 17 and raised over $30,000 for Dallas Reads, the leading adult literacy program in North Texas. “The gala is a fun excuse to get...
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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and promotions. “Even incremental ‘small...
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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
professor at Bocconi University in Milan, co-edited Business History around the World (Cambridge University Press 2004), a report on the current state of business history worldwide. Recently Jones took time to explain the importance of this new book, to which he also...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
urban center of downtown New York 23 years later. Of particular interest to researchers, students, and practitioners of urban development and planning, 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding contributes to current research on the urban development...
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