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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
basic idea is that if the central bank manages to keep inflation within the target range (again, around 2 percent), then everything else will tend to fall into place: low unemployment, relatively stable GDP growth, and so on. So, once the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS
meant nothing. I would soon find out that this one seemingly insignificant thing would shape so much of my life going forward – I was a member of Section C! #1: Your Classroom The idea of spending my entire first year (the “RC” year) in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
her to once again experiment with substantively different ideas rather than producing incremental variations. “It’s more like a 50,” he says. As the number of top-rated competitors increased, however, a discouragement effect kicked in.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
reading from the Working Knowledge Archives It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/sanjeri View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
is an essential part of innovation. It is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. We are constantly experimenting in our daily lives, and organizations place great value on testing new products, services, and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
“Hesper Silver” I was cold-called by Professor Jim Austin to open the case in our first class, on the first day of our first year. I had read the case but had no idea how to analyze it. I was a deer caught in the headlights. I remember... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
play in inequality as well.” You Might Also Like: The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less? Feedback or View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
successfully and have the highest numbers of anyone, even though I really had not run a lottery before or had this kind of position before, is because we had the wise ones at the table, but we also had the new ideas at the table and we... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
their entrepreneurial idea so they can focus on mission-critical tasks. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/MM3hdSNww6O36W0ScOuG][/div] Similarly, you can free up time for important or enjoyable activities by buying your way out of chores... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
there a constitutional basis for the legal doctrine of separation of church and state?—in an effort to craft a list of the people, places, and events students need to know to understand American history. When revised American history textbooks, incorporating the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
were Rock Venture Partners. A colleague at Google had even explored a startup idea at the i-Lab. The more I investigated the resources at HBS, the more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me. I also saw my time at HBS as an... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/sturti View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
to school in the Midwest, that I slowly became aware of the ways people might see me and my culture differently. I realized there were a lot of people in my country and in the world who had never met a Chinese person before, and had no View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
thrive? Carroll’s inquiry into unleashing human potential began with a well-known idea dating back to the psychologist Abraham Maslow and others: the notion that intrinsic, not just extrinsic, rewards motivate people to excel. My own... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down. Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/RobertCrum View Details
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Runner-Up and Lovin’ It
Meanwhile, what about the HBS experience? Did it help? “Without a doubt,” Jackson told Alan Murray of CNBC (April 16, 2004). “What you learn there is how to present yourself in a succinct fashion and really be articulate and know that you have to defend your View Details