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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

lovers. Visit an art museum. Boston has several art museums with impressive collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. And of course, don't forget the... View Details

13 Jan 2021
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How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

in the team. 4. Trust in experience and institutional knowledge One of the little changes Flick made in the team’s lineup was to rely on players with long club tenure. Unlike other turnaround coaches who decreased their team’s average... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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Debora L. Spar | About

the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bentley University. She has also served on the boards of Goldman Sachs and the Wallace and Markle Foundations. Spar earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and her B.S. from... View Details

20 Oct 2003
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Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

worldwide in high-tech industries. The technological and institutional infrastructure of the new consumer electronics industry was determined in the crucible of international competition between four companies in the 1970s and 1980s—RCA,... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

03 Jul 2013
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What Are the Limits of Transparency?

those intentions. People establish relationships with institutions they trust ." Gerald Nanninga, in observing that we overdo caution, asked, "How can you expect people to implement the strategy if they don't know what it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May 2022
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Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details

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28 Jun 2012
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Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and their Implications for Economic Performance

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini

2021
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Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Business leaders have tremendous power to influence our society, how it operates, whether it is fair, and the extent to which it impacts the environment. And yet, we do not recognize or call out the responsibility that comes with that power. This book is meant to... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Power and Influence; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Leadership

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01 Oct 2014
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Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker

23 May 2013
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Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China

Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna

20 Mar 2012
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The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, George Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar & Gui Yang; Financial Services

22 Apr 2009
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Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical

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Principal Research Interests

My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

University, 1920 A leading figure in the cooperative movement, after leaving HBS, W. C. Matney became director of the Bluefield Institute (today the today the historically black college Bluefield State) Department of Business... View Details

12 Jul 2004
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Enron’s Lessons for Managers

tragedy and a point of departure for thinking more carefully about the institutions humans have created to organize our economic lives, according to Salter. In a wide-ranging talk with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, weeks... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Industries, Nations and Time By: Geoffrey Jones NOV 2017 Article Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul , Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna FALL... View Details

01 May 2013
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Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957

“Some people detest asking people for money, but I’m not one of them.” And because he believes in making contributions that give institutions flexibility, Matthews gives to the HBS Fund. “The Dean needs the resources to innovate and to... View Details

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MBA Program at Harvard Business School - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

because the push for affirmative action both in educational institutions and the workplace coincided with . . . women's changing aspirations." 25 The number of women earning their MBAs continued to rise significantly. At HBS women in the... View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Kanter says. Instead, it requires systemic change, including new institutions and new ways of doing things, as Kanter argues in her recent book Think Outside the Building. That might include, for starters, locating incubators in... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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