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- 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
field used to handling any patient who walks in the door. And deciding what not to do is an even more radical idea. In health care, the need for strategic choice of services has been avoided because of the lack of information and the lack... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on-the-ground reporting and an understanding of war’s complexities to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from the Army to serve in this highly specialized and challenging role. Faculty Books What Great View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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The Levitt Brand
colleague, interviewed Levitt for a special video presentation shown at the The Globalization of Markets colloquium. Noting that in 1983 Levitt’s HBR article had “created a firestorm of debate,” Greyser asked him to recall its impact at... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
MacIver, and Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World, with Colin B. Carter. (Read an excerpt from The Future of Boards.) Julia Hanna: You've been studying board dynamics since the 1980s. What is a trend... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
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Letters to the Editor
Angie’s List is missing is a service that includes reviews and ratings of customers who fall into the category of slow-pay, no-pay, or threaten-not-to-pay; who threaten to sue; who ask for much more far outside the contract; and who are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Philippines Outreach
his mark in the Philippines, where he spent time as a Fulbright scholar after graduating from HBS. Of his several nonprofit endeavors there, the most prominent is the Children Protection Network Foundation, whose shelters provide a menu of View Details
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Working at Harvard Business School | Employment
(Chief Human Resources Officer) enjoys the event and interacting with longer service colleagues. “The stories they share are priceless, the memories are heartfelt, their affection for the School is infectious, and the laughter reminds you... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans
service academies has influenced how leadership is taught at the School. HBS faculty, students, and alumni with military backgrounds have played important roles in contributing to the transformative nature of the HBS experience. With... View Details
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Credits – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Site Credits Curator: Melissa Banta Website Design and production: Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Production management: Jon Sallade, Melissa Burton and Sara Grant, Web and... View Details
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From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
limits of human physical capabilities" by maintaining his Special Forces' exercise regimen and competing successfully in full-contact fighting martial arts tournaments. Jefferson retains a deep affection for the people of Hawaii, who... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 23 May 2018
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Winning Bid
housed more than any other vertical in my mind,” Bright told Black Enterprise. “Where else could I go from sourcing and servicing Elvis’s piano to partnering with [designer] Brad Ford to decorate the most expensive penthouse in New York?”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate math problems. "Of course I had no idea how to build such a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Turning Point: Step Change
asked her why, she said, “I think there’s something special in you and you’d be a good leader for the team.” That stuck with me for a long time: Mrs. Hazelip identified a quality in me that I hadn’t seen myself, that I had the potential... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance
- 01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
work on the road—there are salespeople, there are service people. They have to have access to data, they have to communicate. When I have that job to be done and I do not have a physical office to go to, what do I do? What can I hire to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- September–October 2013
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The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Pierce, Lamar, and Michael W. Toffel. "The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1558–1584. (Winner of the NBS Research Impact on Practice Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) and Network for Business Sustainability (NBS))
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Reproductions | Baker Library
Reproductions Special Collections & Archives offers reproduction services for onsite and remote users. We consider all requests on a case-by-case basis. For Onsite Users You can use your cell phone, small... View Details