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Rosita Najmi
be few. College, for instance, is not an option even today. My mother came to America without resources, without a strong ability to speak English, and even without a clear destination and plan. Yet, she came without fear. We were refugees, and at a tender age, I began... View Details
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Laura Ucros Tellez
happening and asking for help would mean I was weak. Now I know it was the bravest thing I have ever done. It saved my life. This experience has brought me even closer to my family, has made me more resilient, and has given me purpose. I... View Details
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Jialei Tian
people. Together we knit the safety-net that keeps failure from entering our grounds. When I arrived HBS, I thought I would find the definition of success. When I leave here I will have come to better understand the meaning of failure.... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
founders have seen the model work again and again. Henderson recalls working with the management team at the largest bank in South Africa, post-apartheid, after he asked them to share their personal experiences. “I saw these guys—I mean... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
funding levels but that they’ll cut benefits,” Allen says. And that makes both politicians and union bosses unpopular. It’s understandable that state governments, like corporations, lobby for their own interests—which may mean supporting... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
supporting the HBS students, faculty, and alumni who are taking on the complex challenges facing society, like education and inequality. Learn more Read about HBS's 20 years of social enterprise The Social Enterprise Initiative was founded more than 20 years ago. What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
of the authors’ research, marketers may need to re-examine the idea that they should imbue their brands with either respectability or rebellion. Instead, as Holt and Thompson’s study suggests, it is in the tensions between the two where the most valued View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
a memorable column about Brighton’s 16-8 championship victory over West Bridgewater, told the gathering that in the playoff round, Brighton topped suburban schools that had “a lot more stuff than you: booster clubs, facilities, all that jazz it just View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
artificial intelligence, the growth of the gig economy, increasing global mobility, longer career spans, and changing work-life demands are all factors that are reshaping work. What those changes mean for women in the workplace, and how... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
says, “We’ll figure it out,” chances are they don’t mean “We will figure it out.” They probably mean “You will figure it out.” They are relying on you to help them turn the ambiguous into the unambiguous.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
that what have I done? Wanted to do the takeover, I mean yes, we increased operating profits. So I suppose my hypothesis that it wasn't being as managed as optimally as possible, this proved correct. But so what? We lost control and what... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details
- October 1987 (Revised November 1994)
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Boston Fights Drugs (A): Designing Communications Research
Describes in detail the research mounted by five individuals with a $20,000 budget to combat drug abuse among Boston's school-going population. Using the focus group methodology they discover that most of the current anti-drug advertising is useless. They create their... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Communication Intention and Meaning; Brands and Branding; Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Segmentation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Boston
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Boston Fights Drugs (A): Designing Communications Research." Harvard Business School Case 588-031, October 1987. (Revised November 1994.)
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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
course: Trust is a cornerstone of successful relationships and organizations. Trust is important to everyone, yet few know what it means and how it works. Being able to operationalize trust – to turn it from a vague idea into a business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
tuition, and Harvard Business Publishing—are facing constraints. A desire to limit tuition increases, for example, and growing competition for professional development mean that growth trajectories across these three areas are lower in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
skilled agents and a powerful players' association, the average player earns $1.1 million. "Because the NHL doesn't have a lucrative, full-season, North America–wide TV contract," explains Kluzak, "steep ticket prices - often beyond the View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Research Brief: The Power of Could
Say you’re in a bind, a tough one. You’ve got cancer and your only hope is chemo—the problem is, it’s wildly expensive and you’re flat broke. Do you follow your moral compass, even if it means dying? Or do you leverage your knack for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
system responded immediately. The United States has become the swing supply in the global system, a role that used to belong to Saudi Arabia, and technological advances mean that producers can respond more quickly than ever before. That... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
One of his agency’s current projects, the conversion of an aging 109-room motel into housing for the city’s homeless veterans, has special meaning for Cordova. Following a tour of duty as a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, Cordova attended... View Details