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- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
emotions and shield moments of openness. Was I really a proud and openly gay man if everyone, except my dad, knew? My apá is a stoic man; he has never been a man View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
this world exist outside my own needs. Thus, I will pause each day at dusk to reflect with my fellow man and watch the majesty of the sunset across the horizon. And as a result, I will elevate humility,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
tablet space, a senior HP executive reportedly told the Wall Street Journal, "We know we're the fifth man in a four-man race." In their drive towards a goal, Achievers often substitute the needs of... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 16 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)
grandfather to cancer, a man who embodied the very essence of what it meant to live a purposeful life. He had advanced the lives of millions in Asia by bringing systematic and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
iStock Consumers make regretable decisions every day, even though easily available information should convince them to do otherwise: Twenty-six percent of consumers choose Advil or other branded headache remedies when they walk into a... View Details
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
their planning processes and make smart choices. Here's an excerpt outlining the seven questions every manager should ask. 1. Who Is Your Primary Customer? The first imperative—and the heart of every successful strategy implementation—is... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- Web
General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
prudent care and self-denying life he slowly added to his well-earned wealth. . . . He was unto the very last a man of rare and simplest modesty.” [5] Emanuel Lehman, who died ten years later, was also... View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
2002, Ackman shorted MBIA’s stock and bought credit default swaps betting that the firm would tank. Then he went public with his bets and a 66-page research report detailing his case. What happened next would have broken a man possessing... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
conflict. Roosevelt replaced Stevens with Colonel George Washington Goethals. Goethals was a cold, withdrawn man of many prejudices, including ones both common and uncommon for the time. He disdained blacks... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Good goal? A: It was excellent for motivating behavior. It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
Their research suggests that transparency on dating sites—as simple as allowing users to see the identity and photos of those who “swiped right” to show their interest—improves engagement for both men and women. Since Match.com launched... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
it works." On the other hand, Kamal Gupta cited problems regarding pay transparency in observing that, "Indian law had mandated public sharing of employee compensation for all those drawing above a certain limit employees... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
of doing business in the Philippines, focusing on its economic transformation from "the sick man of Asia" to a rising force in Southeast Asia in the decades leading up to 2024.... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
in March 2023. As cofounder of Black Man Films, launched in 2020, Qarnain also works as a producer. Black Man’s short films Silent Partner and Speak Up, Brotha! have earned nominations and awards on the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
spoke first of the American Dream in his 1931 book The Epic of America: "It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double... View Details