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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
mindset to make you more strategic or more efficient with your time—but there’s not much research on that yet. Recently, we studied how people could spend their discretionary income to promote happiness: What would happen if you spent...
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April White
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Jeff Chochinov
promote the Olympic sport of curling. I also plan to write a comedic screenplay about my hometown of Winnipeg and open a photography gallery to display my work when it becomes good enough. Above all else, my most important goal in life is...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advancing the cause of women’s leadership in business
Having broken barriers in her own career, Ilene Lang (AB 1965, MBA 1973) has made it her mission to help other women succeed in business. The retired CEO of Catalyst now serves as senior advisor of the global research and advisory firm, which View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
like me.” Building on research showing that underrepresented minorities are more likely to be hired and promoted into jobs in which there are already higher proportions of similar others, McGinn finds that having same-gender or same-race...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Lawrence. Barr told the New York Times (October 7, 2004) that the foundation intends to launch “the biggest and baddest Web site for poetry out there,” sponsor regional contests (patterned after the National Spelling Bee), and undertake major initiatives to View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Harvard Arab Weekend (HAW) 2015
strongly believe that it is our responsibility to promote a positive, forward-looking view of the region that bridges the gap between its rich history and promising future. The 2015 rendition of Harvard Arab Weekend will seek to View Details
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- 31 Aug 2016
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Managing McDonald’s Makeover
that the iconic brand is “keeping pace with changing tastes and habits.” The move was reportedly unexpected, given McDonald’s history of promoting from internal ranks. (Kempczinski was brought on last year.) In quickly tapping a relative...
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John Pepper
Spending his entire private sector career with P&G, Pepper prides himself on heightening P&G’s commitment to customer satisfaction and to creating the “Organization 2005” initiative, which is intended to promote “speed,...
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Personal Care & Home Products
John H. Patterson
After somewhat hastily purchasing a small cash register company, Patterson devoted the rest of his life to promoting and improving upon the cash register technology, revolutionizing commercial business transactions and making NCR into the...
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Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
environment everyday practices. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World by Fred Reichheld (MBA ’78) with Rob Markey (MBA ’90) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reichheld and Markey explain how...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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HBS Bon Mot Enriches the Lingo
Dictionary, words or phrases “used by members of some in-group, having little or imprecise meaning but sounding impressive to outsiders.” While business must take its fair share of the blame for promoting these and other annoyances, we...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
education, leveraging "Nollywood"—Nigeria's film industry, ranked third largest in the world—to promote a culture of saving and investing among Nigerians. (Published April 2014)
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Making TV Look Like America
Jackie Burgos (MBA 2014) intends to run a TV network to promote programming diversity, making TV more reflective of the world in which we live. “I think I’ve always been the kid who has big dreams; life otherwise wouldn’t be fun,” says...
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- 11 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Business and Environment Initiative
The Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS launched back in 2010. It was founded in order to educate business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting businesses today and to help them design effective solutions. The initiative...
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- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
promoted to an executive for Global Business, Commercial Systems and Services at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, overseeing non-military sales, customer completions and support worldwide. Eaton's message, which she has spread everywhere...
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- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role does information technology...
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Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
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Kamoy Smalling
pushed pause on our family’s cycle of intergenerational economic hardship. She promoted us from poverty in Jamaica to working class life in New York City. Nestled in a neighborhood where the sounds of gunshots seemed to ring out from...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
head; she smacked him back, splitting his lip” (September 18, 2003). But the rewards were substantial. The pair accepted a check for $1 million on The Early Show, and several weeks later Lehmkuhl, an actor, landed a cameo on the television series Frasier. Arndt has...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
’03), who is now CEO of FBC, and faculty advisor HBS associate professor Stefan H. Thomke. Photos by Catherine Walsh/HBS Communications Now in its seventh year, the HBS Business Plan Contest is designed to promote entrepreneurship among...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Mentoring Award
Professor Max H. Bazerman has been named one of the recipients of this year’s Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. Based on student nominations, this award is offered annually by the Graduate Student Council of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and...
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