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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
terrific. Light Named Acting Dean HBS professor Jay O. Light became the School’s Acting Dean on August 1. A finance expert who has been a member of the HBS faculty for 35 years, Light has also served the School in a variety of senior...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
trade-offs between product variety and flexibility.” Read the paper: Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World: Companies Need to Make Their Networks More Resilient. Here's How. Willy C. Shih. Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by using data collected from a View Details
- 16 May 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry
of your HBS experience has been the most meaningful? My brain has become so much more razor sharp here! I think the main skillset that the HBS case method drives home is the ability to take a whole variety of data and information that you...
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
attract top talent.” Leadership Fellows enabled access to a variety of qualified candidates, among whom Henry stood out. “He was absolutely my number one choice: he combined an amazing tech background with public sector experience.”...
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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
Studios’ film distribution division in Burbank. “A friend told me that people in Hollywood would think I was Einstein because I could work with spreadsheets,” he half jokes. “I’m one of the few writers who gets excited about reading the page 6 item in View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Howard Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations, emphasized the unique learning environment that exists in a classroom of “experienced” alumni students. Building on this knowledge, Breakthrough Insights is content-rich, designed to stimulate the sharing...
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Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
organizing events, prospecting for new members, and traveling to Albany and Washington to meet with lawmakers, also volunteers his time and expertise to the Rainforest Alliance — an international conser-vation organization — while pursuing a View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
addition to hurting performance, such workers can generate enormous regulatory and legal liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of aspects of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership contributed to its growth in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of construction, engineering and other firms related to infrastructure development. It has about...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give meaning to any circumstance and thus shape behavior: past experience, expectations about the future, group membership, and cultural values. This article opens with a series of thought...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
downtown. So being from Harvard Business School, I immediately jumped into his front seat and off we went. This turned out to be an extraordinary opportunity for me in a variety of ways. This individual was working in a large brokerage...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
put it: They pronounced it differently from Americans. Several hundred million people around the world speak English, and there are differences in pronunciation of a variety of words. I wonder what Wolfensohn’s erstwhile countrymen in...
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- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come...
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- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
value claimers, and this all-for-me attitude becomes apparent in a variety of ways. For example, during internal corporate budget disputes, some executives focus only on their own needs without considering the requirements of other...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
the last decade, a variety of novel patent intermediaries have emerged. We discuss how several online platforms have started services for buying and selling patents but have failed to gain meaningful traction. And new intermediaries that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
advantage of explaining the variety of results that occurred in post-Soviet society. While he does not claim that his renewed Nationalist Perspective can apply to all contexts of world politics, it should certainly be considered vis-a-vis...
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by Martha Lagace