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Sarah Assayag

I would become the first colony settler on Earth 2.0, develop drugs that would allow humans to become immortal, and create an android that would fall asleep by counting electric sheep. My 8-year-old self,... View Details

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

those areas of biotechnology that dealt with the basics of human reproduction. So I started to look into this field, and quickly realized just how radical the technology was and how vibrant commercial activity had already become. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

be a good critic unless you understand. So the first thing is they could learn about the complexities of the actual business world, and its human aspects. Another thing that religious communities have not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2011
News

On the Outside at HBS

legal nonprofit. I quickly learned, however, that my accomplishments did not shield me from feeling like an outsider during my RC year. HBS Dean Nitin Nohria was right when he recently said that even in a community that can pride itself... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

on strike and with as many as 20,000 on the picket line Bill creating Department of Labor passes at the end of congressional session 1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution adopted; the right to vote may not be abrogated by sex 1921 View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Back to School

April 2004, Philadelphia had 14 teacher vacancies, down from 102 in April 2003. While the campaign was a success, it represented a work-around solution to the deficiencies of human resources, a challenge addressed in the second case.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career imprint? Organizational career... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Erwin Wurm Big Disobedience 2016 | About

a large-scale suit, without a body, to stand in for the human form. The sculpture is a critique of contemporary society, its title a play on Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience.” Big Disobedience was View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

positively by Visa cardholders became the basis for a cause-related marketing collaboration in which Visa donates to RIF a percentage of charges during certain periods when the reading program is promoted. Another unexpected fit is that between the View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

14 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Video Perspectives: Tara Basu Trivedi

View Video TRANSCRIPT Tara Basu Trivedi: My life's purpose is to use technology to improve human health. It's the reason why I studied what I studied in undergrad, why I took my first and then second jobs... View Details

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

positive effects. This may be because the laws that surround skilled visas don't allow companies to pay much less than the prevailing wage. "The most extreme studies find a differential of 20 percent or thereabouts, but even that difference is not as substantial as it... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or... View Details

Arnold O. Beckman

Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many factors—some of them a product of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Jun 2021
News

Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

Collenette, adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and founder of The Prosperity Project; Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008), founding partner of Springbank Collective; and Michelle Banik, a human resources consultant and former chief people... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Steady as She Goes

buying to operations management, for nearly nine years. She finally felt like the biggest challenges were behind the company. The year 2020 was going to be stable, she recalls thinking. But by late 2019, it was clear that would not be the case, as the country was... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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HBS - From The Dean

propel us toward them. The first aspiration is to have Harvard Business School be a driving force in defining and enhancing the role of business in global society. Whether that means addressing issues of inequality, thinking about the... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

performance to improve, only to be bitterly disappointed. For some reason, the right things still don't happen. Why is change so hard? First of all, most people are reluctant to alter their habits. What... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

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