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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
time to run young biotech firms; and so preferred people coming out of Baxter to those who had worked at Abbott or other firms, such as J&J and Merck. This preference is reflected in the archival data I have collected over the past... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
being: The Optimist. Leaders are the ones with a can-do attitude; people are rarely inspired by pessimists. The Curator. Leaders know what they don't know and undertake a deliberate search to collect information that fills the gaps. The... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard option Peter Barrett: Remote... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
deontological option) were more likely to suppress their emotional expressions. In Studies 2a, 2b, and 3, we instruct participants to either regulate their emotions, using one of two different strategies (reappraisal vs. suppression), or not to regulate, and we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
Contractors. oDesk's online marketplace also includes a payment platform and tools that allow Employers to audit and verify Contractors' work and time sheets. oDesk collects commissions, approximately 10% of gross services, on all work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
understanding of organizing processes in bureaucratic organizations, but not in community forms. More specifically, we know little about how communities producing collective goods govern themselves. With a multi-method study of one open... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
countries, taxes are confiscatory, and in many developing countries, there is no legal protection for intellectual property. Horatio Alger is alive and well in the United States; individual success and achievement is a value encouraged and protected by the government.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
a collection of principles and policies “intended to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy,” developed by think tanks and trade unions. Already, the European Union has approved a Just Transition Fund of some 19... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
particularly at a business school, we often use it as a noun—meaning a collection of people, who come together for a common purpose, to create something of value. We take this coming-together process for granted, but when you pause and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information from an SEC form The researchers also collected information from the Security and Exchange Commission’s Schedule 13D forms for the same time period. And here’s where the potentially shady broker activity starts to become... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
likelihood of meeting or beating analyst expectations. Collectively the results shed light on the effect of increased ownership concentration on tax avoidance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51123 June... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
from multiple sources and individual-level survey data collected as part of the International Social Survey Programme in 2002 and 2012 from nationally representative samples of men and women in 24 countries. Adult daughters of employed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing might collect an extra dime from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
frequently with company executives might be able to collect enough nonmaterial information from these meetings to piece together an actionable thesis, thus forming an informational "mosaic" that includes notes from both private meetings... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
that, I will work on two volumes of my collected papers. The first volume will be addressed to an academic audience and the second volume to an audience of practitioners. Both volumes are rich with ideas that have intrigued practitioners... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
count on raising debt or equity capital locally to finance their operations. Like investors, creditors don't have access to accurate information on companies. Businesses can't easily assess the creditworthiness of other firms or collect... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is already established and readily... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos Polaroid Corporation Annual Report , 1948, 3. Polaroid Corporation Administrative Records, Box 1.464, Folder 12. Eudoxia Muller Woodward, “Notes for Tape for Land Memorial at Hynes Auditorium, Boston, 1991.” Eudoxia Woodward Family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
collective expertise of generations of Wisconsin cheese makers and dairy farmers in the burgeoning US market for ethnic cheeses. “Ethnic cheese wasn’t huge in Wisconsin when we launched the Specialty Cheese Company,” he notes, “but you... View Details