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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond, wind energy and even, solar energy, is now more cost effective... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
in to regulate and fund the chemical’s production. In addition, governments could use existing vaccine stores more effectively through cooperative agreements with other countries and initiatives such as COVAX, which aims to distribute... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
their social conscience. To them, doing good is just table stakes. Scratch has developed a proprietary methodology examining “brand love” to decode the science of brand affinity across generations. We found that millennials assume that... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
become vital in managing JRI-Poland. Please and thank you are the most valuable words in my vocabulary.” Marketing lessons learned at HBS also helped Diamond develop effective fundraising methods. Because records in Poland were kept on a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
species' survival by triggering learning and adaptation; it can have the same effect on organizations. Businesses and the people inside them don't learn to change unless they have the courage to confront difficult truths. Because most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library
increasingly focused on jobs in the war effort. "The war has created an unprecedented demand for trained personnel workers," the 1943-1944 course catalogue noted. "It therefore becomes imperative to obtain maximum production from the available manpower through View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni
emphasized enough. Commitment to consistent attendance at monthly Circle meetings for one year is important for building relationships and effective group dynamics. Shared commitment will give members the time and space needed to bond and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
In this three-part series, we start with an overview of why retail experts Rajiv Lal, José B. Alvarez, and Dan Greenberg believe retail is at an inflection point. In Part Two, coming next week, they identify effective strategies for... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/are-you-ignoring-trends-that-could-shake-up-your-business/ar/1 Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
different, yet effective diversity efforts, each one closely aligned with the unique character of the particular firm. "Part of the key to an organization's success was adopting a model that worked well in its particular... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
(through outsourcing), and give their jobs meaning, then overall size will cease to be much of an issue." Shadreck Salli agreed, commenting that "Any entity is designed to function at different levels/scale. Regardless of the scale, what warranties success is... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
world. Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01), John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer (Jossey-Bass) The authors show how donors can increase their impact in advancing social... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
insight into how firms can realize the benefits of empowerment strategies while mitigating their risks. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54820 forthcoming Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pettiness in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
likely stereotype (on warmth and competence) and elicited emotional prejudices (admiration, contempt, envy, and pity). Seven of eight specific predictions are fully confirmed, supporting the SCM's predicted causality for social structural... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
because of the potential positive effects on a company's bottom line. "By basing decisions on performance rather than uninformative stereotypes," Bohnet says, "instead of hiring who you think is the most productive person,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
joint degrees, students must be admitted independently to both HBS and KSG. “Graduates of this new program will be able to address some of the world’s most pressing issues that call for collaboration between the public and the private sectors and that require leaders... View Details