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- 18 Jun 2020
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Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
study African and African American History because many school districts fail to teach students accurate and complete versions. 3. We support, join, and learn from organizations that are advancing racial justice. 4. We organize, connect, and collaborate with people...
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- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
that the competition must be connected to the curriculum, that judging would be conducted professionally, and that there would be a consistent faculty presence to maintain an institutional memory and continuity for the event. The...
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- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its foreign direct investment (FDI) policies that could affect Tavistock's goals for its long-term View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical...
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Amy E. Dean
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the systemic...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
questions still remained: Was Promesa and the Oversight Board the best method to assist the island in fiscal recovery? Was the Board’s fiscal plan an acceptable approach? Would the island be able to regain access to capital markets and attract View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
from proving masculinity. People need a compelling reason to place their self-image at risk, and being invested in a meaningful purpose that requires taking such risks may provide one. Research shows that people regard as meaningful...
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
governments, and others to identify mutually beneficial transitions. Managing the Future of Work Podcast Europe Research Center Highlights since 2003 opening 598 Cases & research projects completed 180 Faculty supported by the ERC 1.7M Copies of ERC cases used in...
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- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors' agency and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis argues...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
Each day, the chaos that is one sliver of modern India arrives in the form of 13,000 phone calls to the tranquil 37-acre campus of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) outside Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
within the company by ruthless cost-cutting rather than investment. Speaking of investment, the best investment anyone can make at any career stage is to behave honorably and make friends. Graciousness, even in victory, goes a long way to...
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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
penicillin for Canada's armed forces, provided American Home Products with a learning base in the antibiotic revolution at its very beginning. Early in the postwar era, American Home Products moved out of chemicals but continued to expand its other lines, both by...
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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S....
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives and their View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
reduced the temptation governments face to intervene in the operation of large strategic enterprises. In the Leviathan as a minority shareholder mode, governments have small equity ownership in corporations and in general do not intervene in management. We find...
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Anna Secino
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
several weeks before the regular season had even ended. The 1990–1991 postseason was particularly dire: Premature matching led, predictably, to games that left undecided the pressing question of which team was best. Faced with these View Details