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- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
similar research in Japan, where he anticipates similar results. "I do think that the strategy may prove successful in numerous labor markets where gender-based, ethnic-based, race-based, or religion-based discrimination is the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr says. Patent Effects To determine whether an increase in H-1B visas led to an increase in innovation, the researchers looked at data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, examining patent applications and grants through May 2009. While patent records... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
definition of sustainability was provided in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
“The best part is definitely the autonomy. We are the masters of our own shoe-odor destiny, and it’s incredibly motivating to build something when you feel such ownership. The most challenging part is being OK with ‘good enough.’ There... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
care SEC would have many issues to work out. It would have to establish standard definitions for specific quality measurements. Risk-adjusters would need to develop ways to compare providers’ performance at widely varying practices... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
about how venture capitalists fund companies, they usually do it in stages, giving a little money to start, waiting for it to percolate, and maybe doing a midcourse correction. For the public sector to do that, politicians have to accept that they may need to rethink... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
combined undergraduate/MBA classroom. "It was definitely a departure for both sides of the river," says Moss, the School's Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration, an eight-time recipient of the HBS Student... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
What can I say—even at nine years old, it spoke to me about assuming control over one's life. Twenty-five years later, after HBS, strategy consulting, and brand management, I chucked it all and decided I was a writer. Thank you, Benjamin... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
partnered with us. What do you mean by competitiveness? Porter: There’s widespread confusion about what competitiveness actually means, so our definition is a vital component of our work. When we talk about US competitiveness, we mean the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals
straightforward as I thought it would be. Of course, everything looks perfectly planned and linear in retrospect, but in reality, it definitely was not for me and I pivoted a couple of times. I started my first (RC) year at HBS focused on... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience
strategies for Peek together just last semester. The whole weekend, you are pushed to think introspectively about yourself as a leader. The professor who taught us the Uber case, Youngme Moon, started off the weekend with 6-8 questions... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment along with the corporate bottom... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
retailers’ business models” said Laurie. “While it is a challenging time for the retail industry in some ways, retail tech is definitely moving the industry and students are seeking out these early stage companies.” Who are the students... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
Jane Gilbert: What inspired you to develop the concept of time-driven activity-based costing? Robert Kaplan: When Robin Cooper and I introduced ABC in the mid-1980s, we were strongly influenced by the approach taken by strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
the broadening of the concept since it emerged in the 1980s, but as one practitioner astutely pointed out, the imprecision of sustainability discourse has led businesses to understand the very definition and metrics of “sustainable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
[expletive] out of the U-Stor-It.” Recently, Mark Zuckerberg reminded us that the notion of the Metaverse has been flourishing in the tech world. Let’s assume that his adoption of the notion as a central organizing strategy for Facebook... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
be familiar with specific opportunities) manages the context—organization, the way managerial performance is measured and rewarded, etc.—that shapes definition of opportunities and the selection of those to be supported. In this view,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
intention of getting divorced or having an unhappy family life. But because MBAs so often focus too narrowly on professional achievement, he admonished us to include success in family and community endeavors in our definition of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
enhances business performance as well. "Community involvement can contribute to the definition and development of a company's organizational culture, which is an important determinant of corporate performance," he observes. "Volunteering... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross