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- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
eastern European country. Funded exclusively by donations and with an army of volunteers, the online database can help find family ancestry dating back more than 200 years. It is also a critical resource in connecting people with... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Management Consulting Club
full-time/internship recruitment and gaining visibility into the industry. Key events include: live case prep workshops hosted by David Ohrvall (author of Crack the Case) and Jenny Rae (Management Consulted), industry panels, and social... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Party in Massachusetts. 1860s and 1870s: Opposition to Chinese immigrants in the US culminated in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned the entry and the re-entry of Chinese immigrants for more than 70 years. 1910s and 1920s:... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- Profile
Roniesha Copeland
business, VLC Contracting. Watching them navigate a complex landscape through shifting fortunes became Roniesha’s foundation “for what I understood about business growing up.” Business management might have remained Roniesha’s exclusive... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
The biggest tension here is how to sustain pluralism. If open source contributors only recognize each other based on individual merit, to the exclusion of monitoring where those people of merit are employed, then the pluralism necessary... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
structure) or you have to cut distribution to restore the exclusivity of the brand. Expect the 600 store closings to be the first of a series of downsizing announcements. Sometimes, in the world of marketing, less is more. Schultz sought,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
latter to price lower and thereby increase total consumer traffic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-010.pdf Exclusivity and Control Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Abstract We analyze platform competition for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
The stereotype is that creativity depends almost exclusively on a person's level of 'genius' — their raw, inborn talent for doing what they're doing. "Of course, talent is an important aspect of creativity," Amabile said.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
Agee Professor of Social Ethics and the acclaimed author of 50 books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Children of Crisis, agreed to offer a course he had taught elsewhere at Harvard, where he let students talk about literature. These... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
indicators of negotiators' social motives. Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton, and colleagues. Picking Up An Opponent's 'tell' How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
the data generated by your work? What if instead, you find yourself the owner of data generated by people you employ? How should you use it to remain competitive? What are the ethical and social implications of the choices you make? We... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
says Hourdequin. "Another set consists of those who have a mission or impact orientation: they are looking for a financial return, but they also want to direct their capital to investment pools that help to achieve good environmental and View Details
- Profile
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 working exclusively in healthcare, and I... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- Profile
Bruce Gago
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to become more successful... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
turn out to be socially undesirable because it may prevent platforms from sufficiently internalizing indirect externalities and direct intra-platform competitive effects. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-113.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Tawanda Sibanda
Tawanda Sibanda has “always been interested in creating valuable things,” he says. “Initially, my approach was technical – building things. But over time, I didn’t feel the social impact was as great as I would’ve liked. Now, I see... View Details
- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
Image: Professor Debora Spar in the classroom. Photo courtesy Natalie Keyssar. In a milestone for the School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, all first year students last month completed a short new course on the View Details