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- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
generalization of Black and Scholes's valuation method made it possible to customize financial claims to suit the preferences of buyer and seller alike and to price those derivative claims directly. Thus Bob's theories are the analytical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
Management Committee, O’Neal is one of the firm’s top officers and is frequently mentioned as being on the shortlist to be the next chairman of the 150-year-old firm. “My father told me I wasn’t cut out for farm work,” says O’Neal, whose... View Details
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
listen to podcasts detailing their impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE For more than 50 years, Harvard Business School has recognized a number of outstanding individuals by conferring on them its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject that most people would View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
without asking them to leave their families and companies for extended periods. We actually prefer for them to stay working at their jobs so they can leverage their networks... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
preferences for such programming over alien, standardized content often manifest themselves. “There are many other dynamics that can also undercut the viability of globally standardized products over time,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
feet at all may rank among his greatest achievements. The simple acts of standing and walking represent triumph for Massie, as does the fact that he is even alive today. Fittingly, his life's work is all about “standing up,” as he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln’s president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
Business Review to Levitt, who posted his preference for the active voice, vigorous verbs, and shorter sentences in the staff bathrooms. “Someone said it was bizarre,” Levitt told USA Today. “Chacun à son... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job
Hi, I'm David Chellgren, and I'm class of 2004. The worst job I ever had was making rubberized asphalt as a summer job. My dad was a paving contractor and he had a little side business where they would blend crumb rubber from ground up tires—and they would put it into... View Details