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12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

more like a DB plan in the near future. Although this chapter focuses on a U.S. context and corporate pension plans, retirement and asset-management issues are a global challenge, and indeed, while the details vary across geopolitical borders, the fundamentals are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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MBA Experience - Health Care

innovation. Careers Students pursuing careers in health care receive job search support from our MBA Career & Professional Development office in conjunction with the Health Care Initiative and the student-led Health Care Club. Past Events... View Details

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

digital transformation journey. 2. Align around a customer-centric narrative Vision and strategy matter, but without a sense of shared purpose, employees aren’t willing to do the hard work required to build a digitally mature... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Anglo-Dutch twin Royal Dutch Shell formed major elements in the historically large Dutch FDI in the United States. 2 However, the fact that all dividends were remitted to N.V. in the Netherlands did not mean that the head office in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

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Africa - Global

Africa Research Center in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2017 followed by an office in Lagos, Nigeria in 2019, and an office in Nairobi, Kenya in 2022. This center plays an important role in helping HBS... View Details

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Latin America - Global

an office in Mexico City. Locations Latin America Research Center: Montevideo Montevideo, Uruguay Latin America Research Center: Mexico City Mexico City, Mexico Latin America Research Center: São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil News & Highlights... View Details

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Asia Pacific - Global

an office in Singapore to more broadly support HBS faculty in this region. In 2023 the Shanghai-based classroom was closed down, however much of the programming continued on remotely or in other venues. The three locations work in strong... View Details

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

more: http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631215066_chunk_g978063121506624 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2024
What Do You Think?

Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?

Carolina to support their claim. The Bingham study analyzed data for 6,429 CEOs of S&P 1,500 index firms from 1992 to 2017. Among these were 438 boomerang CEOs with more than a year out of office between stints as CEO; 193 of these... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you, 2) profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities, and 3) a methodology to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex... View Details

April 2017
Case

The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia

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16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

enter new markets, bidding unprecedented sums to purchase competitors and buying up pricey technology. The spending spree sunk the company deep into debt, according to the research. When the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, the stock market crashed—and so did... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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HBS - The year in Review

student leadership ( Student Sustainability Associates Program ), employee engagement ( Green Office Program and HBS Green Team volunteer staff), and Executive Education outreach , the entire community is engaged in this effort, all of... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

Business school is a valuable investment in your future. HBS supports that investment through generous need-based scholarships. In addition to scholarships, many HBS students utilize student loans to help meet their portion of the shared... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

power to register qualified citizens to vote. Federal courts had to clear any new voting changes and procedures before they could take effect in states or counties covered by the law. To trace the law’s impact, researchers hand-gathered records from county View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

Jordan brand and served as president of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team? Probably not, says HBS Professor Francesca Gino, who coauthored the case with HBS Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson and HBS Professor Frances X. Frei, as well as Alicia Dadlani, director of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

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The New CEO Workshop - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

executive officers and CEO designates of major corporations to focus on strategy, setting an agenda, and facing the challenges of leadership. The sessions are extremely interactive, tailored for each new group of participants, and... View Details

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About - Business & Environment

the School’s ten units. We catalyze research and share insights with business leaders. We encourage faculty and students to address climate change and environmental sustainability in MBA classrooms. We host academic and executive... View Details

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

large information technology firm. We find significant interaction effects between being of the same sex and being in the same business unit or same office on dyadic communication rates, though not with same job function. In an extension,... View Details