The Importance Of Progress - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
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Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

creation in the 1920s, mutual funds have progressively become the cornerstone of most individuals' investment portfolios, providing View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

greatest source of wealth for most families. In this interview Segel discusses the importance and fascination of real estate, and three View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

16 Dec 2021
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How Leaders Can Maintain Team Spirit In The Workplace

September 2008
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Does Innovation Cause Stock Market Runups? Evidence from the Great Crash

By: Tom Nicholas

This article examines the stock market's changing valuation of corporate patentable assets between 1910 and 1939. It shows that the value of knowledge capital increased significantly during the 1920s compared to the 1910s as investors responded to the quality of... View Details

Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Stocks; Valuation; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States

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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

they serve that proved so longstanding and significant? As we shall see, these resources were forged from the “inside out” in each of these people; consequently, they played View Details

01 Jun 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

hard work and steady support as we wrestled with these difficult issues. We hope you will plan to join us next year in Shanghai for what promises to be a unique and important event. In spite of global... View Details

Keywords: Susan Luick Good; HBS Alumni Association; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Jun 2019
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Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

marketing has become an important part of the overall strategy that beauty companies employ. As an avid beauty consumer with a desire to work in View Details

21 Dec 2021
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Classics for Christmas: The Best Books You Should Have Read

January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
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College Summit: Rethinking the Relationship Between Growth and Impact

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta

College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed to the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," was faced with an important strategic decision. After growing rapidly at more than 30% a year for the last several years, founder and CEO,... View Details

Keywords: Secondary Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry

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27 Apr 2025
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Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships

Robert Kraft (center) and Jonathan Kraft and Dean Srikant Datar (second row, center) gathered recently with Kraft Family Fellowship recipients and guests to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the first Kraft fellowship fund at HBS. Photos by Ethi... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

The Natural Advantage

result is Heeks’s new book, The Natural Advantage, which lays out seven organic farming-derived principles that visiting executives learn during stays at Magdalen Farm. Lessons include the View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
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that’s a lasting memory, it will be a big and important contribution to their education,” he adds. The same positive effects can also be expected for second-year students who participated in View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2008
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Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel

This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations

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11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship

Rather than have talented engineers and scientists tracking down buckets for leaks, he wanted their focus to be where it should be: on advancing the important work of View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

networks that are internal and external to the organization. "It's a process of shifting from vertical management to horizontal collaboration. One's title and role are far less View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology

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Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro

We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

as a destination; set tangible markers for yourself so that you can see and measure your progress along the way. Ongoing obligations Like growth itself, assessment is not static, but a dynamic process that... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

very hard...inside! As you may recall from my letter in the October issue of the Bulletin, this year the Board is tackling three View Details

May 2025
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Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda

By: Frank Nagle, Robert Seamans and Steve Tadelis

Transaction cost economics theory explains when it is more efficient for a transaction between two parties to occur across the market or within an organization. How does transaction cost economics apply in the digital economy, which relies on digital transactions? In... View Details

Keywords: Transaction Cost Economics; Digital Economy; Economics; Cost; Markets; Research; Digital Transformation