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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
- News
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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Andrea Heckbert
in rehabilitation. He was playing guitar, writing songs for his next album, and chatting about projects going on at work he couldn’t wait to get back to. He and my mom were laughing at stories from their...
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- 01 Aug 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Dallas Arts Community
When HBS Leadership Fellow Jennifer Scripps (MBA 2005) left HBS for a job as director of special projects at Lincoln Center in New York City, little did she know that her career trail would eventually point back to her hometown of Dallas,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Using an online platform to reinvent education
site. “Our annual budget is equivalent to a medium-sized high school. We’re reaching 10 million students a month today and hope to reach hundreds of millions in the not too far off future,” says Khan. “The Khan Academy team and I feel blessed to be able to View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
REALLY MATTERS IN THE WORKPLACE IS HELPING EMPLOYEES FEEL APPRECIATED.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to work even harder, the research...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was...
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- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
high schools were really hard to crack.” At the time, Zaikos was working for the Chicago Public Schools system as part of the Broad Residency, a program created to bring management professionals into urban education, in an effort to...
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Jaylon Sherrell
After earning her MBA from Indiana State University and working for several years as a project manager in the private sector, Jaylon Sherrell (she/her) found that she wanted a more intellectually stimulating...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum. "There's one Chinese company, for example, that has established...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
gear up to raise a Series A. “When I spoke with Diego, he shared five problems they were thinking about and gave me the option of what I wanted to work on,” Westphal explained. “The project I chose allowed...
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- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the agency to hedge its bet with a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon...
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- 03 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths
fellowship allows students to contribute in the social enterprise space and receive a supplement to their salaries. In just a few weeks, our 2014 Summer Fellows will be around the world, with over 70 Fellows in 18 countries working on...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
race theory to classic sociological questions. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: a project focused on race and organizational theory with the University of Chicago Press and public book on...
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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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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
School. So we designed this project to ask: May they, can they, should they, and do they? We commissioned three papers, one by law school professor Einer Elhauge, to examine "may they?" He concluded that firms could indeed go...
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by Manda Salls
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
"If you ever want to have your ego kicked down about twenty-five pegs, go out and try to raise $5 million." McMillan said he "earned, saved, and projected for the long term" before starting his firm with $25,000. If...
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by Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero and Daniela Izquierdo (both MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business
managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been...
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