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26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

Power at the bargaining table is rarely distributed evenly. A job seeker lacking alternative offers is not going to have much "hammer" in salary discussions with a prospective employer. But what happens when you are perceived to... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

organizational legitimacy and the kind of moral order we want to create as a society," Anteby explains. The same issues could help us come to grips with the murky legal and ethical areas surrounding the digital age, for example. "We can think of the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

distributed today that it’s relatively easy to access them no matter where you’re located." In Thomas Kermorgant’s words, "Outstanding companies create the concepts that are then formalized and spread by gurus. Outstanding... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

knew were coming to us wanting to know how they could offer support, where they should donate, and how to make an impact, and we were wondering that ourselves,” said Kenneth. “To provide one answer, we decided to start a GoFundMe page that would View Details

03 Jun 2020
News

Keeping a Community Connected

provided food—delivering food, distributing grocery cards, and setting up sites where people can pick up food. We’ve helped bridge the gap between paychecks. Partnering with the ICA Watershed, we are using their facility in East Boston... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond Accommodation

that reduced government procurement costs and streamlined distribution channels. “This was a turnaround situation,” Gibbons explains. “NIB had a declining top line and was operating in the red. We needed to shift from a monopolistic... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens significantly, suggesting increased entry by small firms. However, the dominance and growth of large incumbents remains... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

customer services and to streamline distribution channels and innovate financial services, says Tufano, the cost of creating IDAs would decrease dramatically. View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

case competition drew so much interest from other MBA schools. The Marketing Club is looking forward to building upon this momentum and making this an annual event in future years,” said Vicky Au, the other conference co-chair. The conference ended with a prize View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

bleeding edge ideas and concepts for the business that had never been done before, such as deploying a residential storage virtual power plant to test the value of aggregated storage, laying out the ground work for a future Florida large scale View Details

Web

Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Government William V. Giannobile Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine David N. Hempton Dean, Harvard Divinity School Rakesh Khurana Dean, Harvard College Bridget Terry Long Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education John F. Manning Dean, Harvard Law School Sarah M.... View Details

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Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine | About

too, to take care of yourself. In especially difficult times, it is our community that provides us comfort and our values that give us strength. This message was distributed to the Harvard Business School community. View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

Northwest Harvest, Washington’s largest food bank, to help distribute food to people in need in Seattle. “It’s important for the club to give back to the community,” notes Kwiker, who also feels the event provided members with a memorable... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

self-confidence in financial skills improved by significant amounts, jumping as much as 50 to 60 percent. As an unexpected side benefit, Maynard notes that middle school and high school teachers are also using the games to teach students about different aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

December 2015 (Revised February 2017)
Case

BRF

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

In 2015, BRF's new leadership team is transforming several aspects of the Brazilian protein giant, which had grown sluggish after the 2011 merger that created it. Underlying their reforms are the common goals of reducing bureaucracy, streamlining decision making, and,... View Details

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09 Dec 2011
News

Doing Well By Doing Good

Keywords: non-profits; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

by the way, and I think eventually he did, too.) An idea was forming in my head, though. And in his, and in a few others’. And the idea was that we needed to set up a brand-new fund to collect and distribute donations that were going to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Clarissa Quintanilla

campus. After graduation, she worked at Edward Jones “because I was interested in its community-based distribution system.” After two years with the company (working in its Rotational Development Program and in marketing), she married her... View Details

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