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- 17 Feb 2011
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Field Report: Rwanda
a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its satellite television business. “We...
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- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
National Geographic Genographic project (Inga Ness), Trendwatcher (Gerald Nanninga), and Wikipedia (Adnan Younis Lodhi and Sameer Kamat). In spite of the advantages of putting customers to work, a number of cautions were raised as well....
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in...
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Susan Young
Expanding Horizons
opportunity to develop my current book project and to establish a longer-term research agenda. Moreover, I have benefited greatly from the opportunity to work with and learn from leading scholars in the...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible without the international resources and infrastructure...
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- 27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance
families, he launched projects collectively worth more than 500 million and helped create Spain's first real estate investment trust. He took over at Metrovacesa in 2016, just as the domestic market was taking off. By the time of its IPO...
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Ralph Ranalli
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History The Harvard Business School Creating Emerging Markets project (CEM), in collaboration with the HBS India...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
that anyone can use. He identifies three stages on this path: the Champion (Tiger Woods’s work ethic, self-confidence, and mental toughness), the Great Leader (Bob Iger’s revitalization of Disney), and the Legacy (Lance Armstrong’s good...
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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Administration Oral History Project , Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Resources Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) Harvard Business...
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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog
history, and an emphasis on analysis, debate and reflection. This course meets weekly and will be offered in Q1Q2 (Fall). Students will submit a final project that they will have been working on throughout...
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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
what the employee can do to grow their skills and what extra opportunities they can take on,” said Fitzpatrick. Then, as extra projects will often be within different teams, communication between managers is also critical. Having everyone...
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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
what the employee can do to grow their skills and what extra opportunities they can take on,” said Fitzpatrick. Then, as extra projects will often be within different teams, communication between managers is also critical. Having everyone...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
problems during rollout. What I love about working in Africa is that I am constantly reminded that I don’t know what I don’t know, and that with every project there is something more to learn, a new...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
otherwise have access them. Working through Dell's TechKnow initiative, HBSAAA volunteers in the New York metropolitan area are helping to teach middle-school students how to take apart, reassemble, and use refurbished Dell computers,...
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Supporting Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the not-for-profit sector. Independent Projects These provide second-year MBA students the opportunity to...
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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few...
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- 03 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
4 Ways HBS Alumni Utilize Baker Library
new products, understand their markets, find customers, understand the competition, or be better equipped to have a conversation with their board or the teams they are leading,” he notes. “We do all these things. The variety is endless and the alumni and their View Details
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Ralph Johnson
Why did you want the MBA? After graduating from Hampton University, I went to work with Accenture—I thought I could work across different functions and industries to find my calling. But I ended up View Details
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
member. "Howard Stevenson was my sounding board," says French. "He helped my partner and me work out the details and brought up issues that never would have occurred to us. We're a better company now for that experience." Most EMFS View Details