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Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling - MBA
remind me that anything is possible.” Media was an escape: it introduced me to worlds that weren’t my own. Stories create spaces for the impossible, where you can insert yourself and imagine something entirely new. One of the best parts...
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- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown recalled being awestruck by white...
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- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
findings are particularly relevant at a time when the economy is clouded by recession concerns and companies in industries across the world are searching for ways to instill a spirit of innovation, with Google expecting employees to spend...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
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Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion - MBA
on a real project that enables a business to perform better? This is exactly what you get to do in the Field Global Immersion (FGI) course at Harvard Business School . When final exams wrapped up in May my classmates and I flew to 12 different cities around the View Details
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands - MBA
realized that oil and gas may not be the career I was looking for due to the industry’s adverse environmental impact. The world was starting to move on to cleaner and more sustainable energy. I was deeply confused as it felt like I had...
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Case Protagonists at HBS - MBA
protagonists who have visited? Two protagonists stand out to me as being particularly memorable. First, Greg Glassman, creator of CrossFit, came to class and blew all of our minds with his passion. His no-nonsense, matter-of-fact, cynical view on the View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
numbers Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Air traffic controllers' union dismantled Union representation drops Information technology redistributes job functions Influence: Low 90 1990 s Reengineering Record high employment Service...
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College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA - MBA
panel, and a current student panel! You’ll have the chance to interact with students from around the world to collectively grapple with management challenges under the guidance of HBS faculty members during our case method sessions. Learn...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
We all understand at some level that stars in the worlds of film, sports, and even business create results. If you want big box office for Pirates of the Caribbean, it probably pays to sign Johnny Depp to play the lead. But Harvard...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
million. As Bad Boy’s CFO, Ferguson oversees a multifaceted hip-hop empire founded in 1993 by chairman and CEO Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, a Grammy Award–winning producer and recording artist in his own right. Sometimes criticized for its...
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- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its...
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
accessed September 8, 2019. “ July 2019 Was Hottest Month on Record for the Planet ,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), August 15, 2019. “ The Global Risks Report 2019 ,” World Economic...
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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that first, multinational subsidiaries fared on average better than local counterfactuals with similar economic characteristics. Second, among...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated...
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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting of weekly attendance records for 1,179 students, we find that approximately 25% of learners stop attending these programs in the first 10 weeks and that average attendance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
get. Smart Startups is written for them—a timeless record of essential knowledge that can help them achieve success. It’s Time for Strategic Scheduling: How to Design Smarter K-12 Schedules That are Great for Students, Staff and the...
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- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
are not aligned. "CEOs should be working with both constituencies, insiders and outsiders," says Sadun. "However, if there are governance issues, there might be the possibility that the CEO is in the outside world more for...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that...
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by Rachel Layne
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8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA
these students as they continue to grapple with a world that is not always accepting of who they are. Wherever you are, we hope you take a moment to celebrate those around you and celebrate yourself. Here, students share their personal...
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