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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Staff Directory | Baker Library
theory and practice. Ken Peterson Executive Director, Baker Library Baker Library In his role, Ken collaborates with colleagues across the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and beyond, supporting the needs View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
public firms increased investments by just 1.6 percent versus 7.4 percent at the matched private firms. The researchers hypothesized that short-termist pressure was the reason behind this disparity. In order to test the theory they... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Years ago, when I was a student in New York (and like many students, perpetually broke), I would often go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for entertainment. The museum had a policy that visitors could pay whatever they wanted, so for as... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
of Winthrop House at Harvard College. He is the first African American ever appointed Faculty Dean in Harvard's history. He is a founding member and Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project. Professor Sullivan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
Terry understands but rejects the time-worn theory of a “sustainability divide” in favor of an abundance mindset, of greater equity in the... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
The Courage of our Convictions The Courage of our Convictions 04–05 APR 2019 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Kira Banks Dr. Kira Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves,... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Beyond Hong Kong's towering skyline and ship-filled harbor, the Kowloon Peninsula gives way to the verdant hills and peaks of the Chinese mainland. The bustling international business center is a natural gateway to an area that has... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
such as CT scans. In the bundled payment model, the onus is on the doctors to choose the most cost-effective care bundle. "The model lets doctors take the risk," Feeley says. "The onus of responsibility is on us to decide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
in 1969. Ginny’s eyes teared up. “He was our father,” she said, and explained that he had developed Alzheimer’s disease in his 50s and died in 1996. Dick Vancil played an enormous role in my life. He was a master of the case method, as... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
to business success. In today's global markets, companies have many choices to procure what they need to develop, build, and sell product. Pisano and Buciuni wanted to test the theory of the dying cluster.... View Details
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
empowered by the ability to analyze large amounts of data (that would be difficult with Excel) and develop recommendations as we would in an HBS classroom. HOW DID FLATIRON HELP YOU BUILD SKILLS? Paige Tsai : At a high level, I learned... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Class of 2022, for her work as an advocate of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights. Loretta was the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
focus on professional identity—the BE component—we turned to the literature on adolescent and adult identity development. Our work was grounded in the constructive-developmental theory of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
and then develop theories that will help predict behavior in the future. I don’t know that I had a clear hypothesis about this research question at the start. You hear so much said about how much people don’t like open offices, but... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
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Policy - Business & Environment
documents showed sophisticated understanding of the relationship between increasing CO2 concentrations and increasing temperatures. 1990s In an attempt to prevent regulation, the fossil fuel industry initiated marketing campaigns in the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer, while you look after your other constituents on an as-needed basis." In the east quadrant, Simons focuses on performance variables and the theory of value creation. "We build strategy... View Details