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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
meaning in the workplace could be more satisfying careers for us all. Each May, at the end of his Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature course, Scotty McLennan goes one step further. "I ask students to think about the lesson...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
No other large district in the country has such a high percentage of charter schools. Q: How does New Schools for New Orleans fit into the reform landscape in the city? What were some of the lessons from the case? A: One of the benefits...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
more than doubled to $10.2 million on a 35 percent increase in revenue, which grew to $58 million from $43 million in fiscal 2019. Expanding its portfolio with new programs, HBSO launched an Alternative Investments course and a leadership program based on View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
so, as they're responding, I'm literally writing, like an HBS facilitator, on the board, and writing their responses. What they don't know is, as I'm doing that, I'm engineering, or re-engineering, what I'm planning to discuss as a part of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
with a ring of empty seats above, below, and to either side of her own. "It was a lesson in the emotional and intellectual challenges of being a true minority," Lack says. "One of the wonderful things is that isolation lasted such a short...
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Hanna, Julia
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
Harvard naturalist, and how he had his student study a fish. The story is found here. The moral is to keep looking at every aspect of something till you get it all, and then keep on looking, for there’s always more to discover. It’s a powerful View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
or reputation. Norton: Even so, the case includes an exhibit documenting all the openings and closings of franchises around the world, and it's been mostly openings. Once they open, they are usually successful in maintaining the business. HBSWK: Are there any View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
almost mythical in nature, with other states often misunderstanding the lessons of the Foxwoods experience. The real story behind the Pequot gaming compact, however, is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
existing facilities, and we build or make improvements. We erect permanent structures only when we have a definite post-Olympic commitment and use; all other sites and improvements are designed to be only temporary and will be torn down after the Games. We learned that...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
of advertisers. But we're never going to be out there selling Internet ads for Pampers." Less then twelve months later, Pampers had become one of the three thousand advertisers who had signed on with DoubleClick. The humbled Salzman had learned a View Details
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Susan Young
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
1999 and 2000 when Pets.com came along; they dreamed up this strategy very early on. To me, it's a lesson on just smart strategic leadership. They saw the threat and came up with a smart strategy that placed them where the puck was going....
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
approach risk management, issues of greatest concern, tools and processes used in practice, the benefits and limitations of quantitative models and balance between the use of models and exercising judgment, and lessons learned from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Arkansas. As I worked on Giants of Enterprise, I found to my surprise that my subjects all shared a number of traits, and these became the key lessons of the book. For instance, someone once said, "If you don't stand for something,...
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by Jim Aisner
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
One of the most important career lessons I’ve learned is to not tell yourself no. Everyone told me I’d never get picked to be an astronaut, that I was too young. I was very lucky. But if you don’t put your name in the hat, you’re not...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
company’s business going forward. How was ArcelorMittal to face the mounting crisis? What response did it owe its employees? Its shareholders? Its stakeholders? Given the low state capacity in Liberia, ArcelorMittal helped organize a private sector response to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government took so long to move could have been as simple as structure. “There are lessons to be gleaned from how the war on terrorism played out, post–9/11, where there were all these fiefdoms that sprang up,” says Josh Lefkowitz...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
at the end of his Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature course, Scotty McLennan goes one step further. "I ask students to think about the lesson of Tolstoy's character Iván Ilych, who realizes that what he has been missing is...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso