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19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While companies are increasingly addressing environmental and social issues that also improve their economic value, for some of these issues individual company action is costly. At the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office of a credit card... View Details

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

to collect on defaulted debt. In truth, most countries repay their debts, and sovereign default is far from the norm. At stake in the Argentina case is the idea that one should use foreign institutions and foreign courts to help financially suspect countries View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

01 Feb 2001
News

Books

world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. I’ve always found myself drawn to working on products and services that can have a positive impact on the... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

service agencies. Employees who volunteer individually and through organized company programs bring renewed enthusiasm to the workplace. Scoon: Our company has benefited in three ways from social enterprise activity. First, we take pride... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The... View Details

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old due to its one-child policy.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United States and their View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2005
News

London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

remarks to a plenary session, Dean Clark highlighted a number of ways in which the School is growing and changing to meet new challenges both at home and abroad. Among them, he cited initiatives dealing with corporate governance, life... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

researchers factored for personal traits, including imputed height, body mass, and cognitive ability. Because military service was mandatory for men but not for women, they had very little data on the physical traits of the women. They... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

serves nearly 100 children, employs a staff of 30 caregivers, teachers, and administrators, and runs ancillary services that include a school, tailoring training, a small farm and greenhouse, a pharmacy, and a shrimp farm, all meant to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

resources in creating these environments. And in many that do, only some managers make an effort to be inclusive. The consequence of that is when these managers leave, the female-friendly environments disappear. Q: Based on your research, how could male as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

professors improve their teaching capabilities. Christensen and several other faculty members responded by writing numerous cases that focused on the skills discussion teachers must have to be effective. Building on this HBS work, in the... View Details

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

an experiment almost a decade ago in which the company allowed a randomly selected subset of employees to work from home for nine months while the rest of the team stayed in the office. As it turned out, the employees who worked from... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

productive? When you’re at home, you might have a list of things to do, and you can check everything off and feel like you accomplished a lot. But for knowledge workers, productivity is often about new ideas, new products, new services, or even just View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

travel policies. Though few and far in between, moments together are magical, made all the more special by their rarity.So love, for me, is definitely here at HBS, but it is also thousands of miles away at a studio apartment in the heart of Nairobi or, even further... View Details

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

resource allocation within the group. In this way, the results are consistent with models where firm interlocks facilitate coordination across firms and are also consistent with models where relationships affect capital allocation. Front-line Staff Perspectives on... View Details