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Olga Sokolova

precious and daring youth... But with the rising thrill and desire for more and better also came hard questions: Is there a price to pay? Is there anyone left behind? What is right and wrong? What is fair and good? When they existed, the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

struck Chiofaro that "there was more to life than playing football and having a big neck. I had other options." Enrolling at HBS, he graduated and took a position at Salomon Brothers, a stint that proved even shorter than his pro football fling - one week. "I quit... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

Summing Up Our perceptions of whether we do "what's right" depend on such things as the situation, the time frame, the expectations of others, and whether we are face-to-face with the object of our actions. And we are much poorer judges of whether we are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

sometimes quite negative events, take the high road, do the right thing, and develop a reputation as a result. They almost always found that building reputation created returns, as in talented people appreciating the creation of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

book that for most companies, the best opportunities sit right in their industry, close to home. Second, conventional strategic thinking teaches that companies can easily get “stuck in the middle,” with no discernible competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

competitor had recently launched a product exclusively tailored to this demographic, securing substantial funding and gaining a significant head start. Convinced that this team possessed the right credentials to address the problem, I... View Details

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran

In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel

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Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble

What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details

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26 Mar 2014
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Brian Kahin, MIT

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

as new generations come into decision-making positions and may advocate for new strategies such as impact investing. Once a strategy is in place, selecting the right investments or funds requires extensive work. An advisor such as... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

as glare. Land found that placing one polarizing filter over another at a right angle halted all light vibrations. Moving the second filter back and forth created variable vibrations of light. In 1929, with Donald L. Brown, a patent... View Details

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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

for similar jobs across the board, it is not absolute. To find this premium dataset, select the Account icon in the right corner of the front page after registering and then select Premium Salary Database. Locate Salary Surveys by... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

challenges behind it.” But that will require a change in the way the world does business. “We’re going to be the only species that wasn’t able to save itself because it wasn’t profitable to do so. It’s about creating a paradigm for organizations to do what is View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

technology, management processes that they already have, and probably the culture.” Who’s in your talent pool? So what’s a remote job-seeker to do? Finding the right job depends on profession and, perhaps more crucially, what individual... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

three-piece suit kind of guy, and I wasn't. I preferred Boston to New York. And I didn't like working with computers then any more than I do now. Despite the good money, it wasn't the right fit." Instead, O'Donnell remained at HBS as... View Details

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a second chance under the View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

Ron Daniel told graduating students how to tell if they were in the right job. "You have to want to run to work at least four days out of five," he advised. As a consultant at McKinsey for almost fifty years, twelve of them as managing... View Details

25 Jan 2016
Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

prefer to be totally immersed in the HBS experience, while others prefer to maintain some distance from it. Many partners need to commute to different parts of the city, so some couples choose to live in a location that is convenient for both parties. There’s no View Details

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