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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
I thought that change came out of the barrel of a gun. … But life has many surprises for twenty-year-olds." He pursued an MBA degree from HBS, graduated in 1976, and joined the Boston Consulting Group, eventually gravitating to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in short, a technology for reliably creating leaders). Our research program involves not only discovering the technology, but also creating a course that would be available to others to use,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
failure to do so would cause $100 million worth of damage or certain loss of life or serious physical injury. If the board elects to spend $5 million of the shareholders' money for such equipment, the board should disclose its decision... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
seeing real innovation in business, not in products but in what business does." Economic Facts Of Life There are three key characteristics of information technology markets—three economic facts of life, said Upton, that can help show... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
out, are often underestimated and even overlooked, but they all display an inner strength that wins the day. For Marcelo, a young woman born in the Philippines, the road to entrepreneurial success was marked by moments of doubt from skeptics and View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
to do this work, so whether we’re building fences or moving pallets of minerals or taking care of cattle, we try to give them a ton of free manpower. In return, we get a lot of knowledge and experience that’s super valuable,” Minden says.... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar Tractor Co. General File Industrial... View Details
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The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog The Arts of Communication Course Number 7515 HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Candace Bertotti Spring; Q3Q4; 1.5 credits 12 2-hour sessions ---Please Read Before Enrolling--- My goal: to create and deliver a valuable and extraordinary learning... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
curated life. Growing up in a military base, extremely safe, extremely secure, you knew pretty much all your neighbors. Run around town and be out at night, playing around at 9, 10 PM—got in trouble a few times for that. But most of my View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
brutality, and the injustices Black people continue to experience in American,” says DeShay, and the new music initiative will feature songs that “echo the need for change but offer up the approach of love and unity as means to creating a... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing newcomers' unique perspectives and strengths) led to significantly greater customer satisfaction... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life By: Groysberg, Boris, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng Abstract—Executives are often confounded by culture because much of it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
wedding in 2003. Then life got very complicated. Less than twelve months after getting married, Jen was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare cancer of the soft tissue. For two years, she endured painful rounds of chemotherapy in her valiant... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student Mia Mends approached Koehn privately and noted that thus far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. After high school,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
[LAUGHS] You know? You're having Nancy Reagan and George Bush travel the country and telling you that there's a war on drugs. I just remember my one experience with it was I was fishing with my cousin at her house on Biscayne Bay sometime... View Details