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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Enabling students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. Students either founding or working for social enterprises (nonprofit, public sector, or for-profit organizations with a social... View Details

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About - Global

About Building upon a rich legacy of global engagement in business education. The Global Initiative is anchored by a team based in Boston with more than 65 staff sitting in key regions around the world to contribute to the school’s global... View Details

22 Aug 2007
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The Hedge Fund as Activist

share of most public firms, mutual fund companies have been reluctant to engage in any form of activism (the same firms that are performing poorly may also be mutual fund clients). The Activist Arena Unlike... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

20 Jun 2005
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Creating a Positive Professional Image

"predicament" or event that reflects poorly on their competence, character, or commitment at some point in time, due to mistakes they have made in the past that have become public knowledge, or competency gaps (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

06 Jun 2011
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Why Leaders Lose Their Way

highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. This makes their behavior especially perplexing, raising questions about what caused them to lose their way: Why do leaders known for integrity and leadership View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

performance in public and private performance domains by decreasing anxiety. Belief that a specific series of behaviors constitute a ritual is a critical ingredient to reduce anxiety and improve performance: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

such as ethnicity, community and family. She examines consequences such as employee engagement and commitment to work, career success and satisfaction, quality of interpersonal and intergroup relations, and performance. In recent work,... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Business & Environment Business & Environment July 2015 Article BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Bryan Bollinger As concerns about pollution and climate change have become more central in... View Details

09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

illustrating my points with examples from companies including Home Depot, McDonald's, Merck, and Pfizer. There is no magic bullet that can target the pitfalls of your business strategy, but you must engage in ongoing, face-to-face... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Clubs - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Clubs 46ms Student-led clubs and activities give students the opportunity to become better informed about and engaged in issues and possible career paths. A number of clubs focus on the link between business and environment... View Details

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

dysfunction—the failed political competition the parties have created (captured in the “Gehl Porter Politics Industry Theory”). This new lens reveals the reforms that will be necessary to truly realign America’s political system with the View Details

2021
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Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes

By: Pedro Bordalo, Marco Tabellini and David Yang

U.S. voters exaggerate the differences in attitudes held by Republicans and Democrats on a range of socioeconomic and political issues, and higher perceived polarization is associated with greater political engagement and affective polarization. In this paper, we... View Details

Keywords: Politics; Stereotypes; Belief Distortions; Model; Government and Politics; Public Opinion; Values and Beliefs

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

financial institutions, markets, and instruments contribute to this process. Our approach to research is distinguished by its unique combination of theory, empirical analysis, mathematical modeling, and field observations at companies. Recent View Details

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

to own all types of firearms are implicitly condoning the death of innocent people through lax gun laws. Candidates who promise to do "everything possible" to enact a specific policy are neglecting the tradeoffs inherent in all political decisions. When... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
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AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr

By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details

Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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29 Nov 2022
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Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

really doing is exposing a lot of that weakness to the public that we just hadn’t noticed or thought about before. "To a large extent, Twitter was inefficient at maintaining its ongoing operations, as well as innovating on new features."... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

18 Mar 2024
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When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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