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02 Feb 2017
News

Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

the goals of her organization and her leadership role. “As CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes, we support about 350 individuals with intellectual disabilities in the community. “The basis of the organization is that... View Details

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the... View Details

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Market Perspectives

screen) When searching for books, you can limit the results by library location (ex: Baker Library). Within each individual record, use the "Locations and Availability" tab to link to a full-text article or find the call... View Details

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About This Collection | Baker Library

Conducted over two years, the interviews illustrate many distinctive paths to successful entrepreneurship and the parallel experiences and challenges individuals may encounter. Professor Stevenson was uniquely positioned to lead this... View Details

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

imposes restrictions on individual choice behavior that limit the types of substitution patterns that can be found through empirical analysis, and we raise fundamental questions about when the model can be used to recover individuals'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7

Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman Publication:In Oxford Handbook of Business and the Environment. Oxford University Press, in press Abstract We explore interventions at the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

status 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act enacted to eliminate discriminatory barriers against qualified individuals with disabilities, individuals with a record of a disability, or View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

themselves from individual liability. Since the Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, a number of new nonprofit foundations have formed, often around specific technologies, to serve the interests of programmers. HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent

Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance, Groysberg's current focus is on women: both how they succeed as individuals and how organizations can best leverage female talent. His work has led to a new MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Learning Curve

work while she dedicated herself to finding the right learning situation for Katie. Eventually, she came to the conclusion that homeschooling would be the best choice. But several of the experts she consulted disagreed. Katie would benefit from View Details

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

entities and individuals that interact with those markets, to make sure they’re complying with federal securities laws. Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Matthew Wyble

it has been really rewarding.” At HBS, Matt’s sense of individual ambition has also undergone a rewarding transformation. “In our classes, it’s not about who can get the answer quickly, it’s about who can move the group’s understanding... View Details

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Book publishing industry

'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Prior to BookScan, the only source for market data for some individual titles was Best Seller lists compiled by publications such as the New York... View Details

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

information and advising services to employees to supplement other sources Offer health plan structures that provide good value and encourage saving for long-term health needs Create collaborative vehicles with other employers to offer group insurance coverage to... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

in fact we believe consumers are generally ill-informed about products, there's a utility cost to the individual of not receiving ads,” says Anand. “Imagine a world where there's no advertising — essentially we'd be making some very... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

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