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01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

suppliers of ancillary home construction products, like cement, paint, and other home fittings. Would this create a unique one-stop shop for construction-related goods, or take Tata Steel further away from... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Job-hopping doesn’t benefit lower-level workers. Women in lower-level positions did not gain the same advantage over men that senior executive women did. Men still take home more. Salaries for men were still 14 percentage points higher... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

perfectly—he got heatstroke, they missed a tour of the Vatican, and it rained for two days straight—the couple fought so much over whether the trip was worth the high price tag that the husband threatened to take the next flight home. But back View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, intellectual property in this country is worth more than $5 trillion—about twice the amount of the current federal budget. The question: Are companies taking advantage of this value? Not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the chief architect of Kiva's game-changing product vision. Prior to Kiva, Mick worked on a business process team at Webvan designing a next generation distribution strategy for grocery home delivery, during which he experienced... View Details

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

were not strong enough to prevent the growth of private labels in Europe, but they were sufficient to maintain Unilever's strong position in higher margin products. It was able to leverage knowledge of brands and products between View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Shira Asa-El

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After over seven years of military service, going to business school was a step toward my ultimate transition to the private sector as well as an opportunity to live in a foreign country... View Details

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Drew Keller

and environmental outcomes, which is different from the primacy given to shareholder returns over the past 50 years or so. In my work prior to HBS, I partnered with businesses actually acting on this and using their voices to advance LGBT+ inclusive laws in View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

societies where men were away from home for extended periods to work and found it difficult to monitor the behavior of women, for example in societies that relied more on pastoralism rather than agriculture. In pre-industrial times,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

own homes in a quarter of the time and a third of the cost. They hope to expand the program ten-fold over five years and hope to launch similar programs in other countries including Egypt, the Philippines,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

Portrait Project

Carlton Burrell

The answer to where you call home is often followed with “have you been to [insert favorite restaurant]” or “I loved it when I visited!” That’s never the response when I tell people I’m from Compton, California. Instead, my response is... View Details

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Peter Gumulia

access to high quality education for millions of Indonesians.” With support from the i-lab and Rock Center, Peter aspires to build an online English learning platform in his home country. “Indonesia is transitioning from a View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

deeply about taking their team, company, community, or country to a different and better place. You could call this long-term thinking, but it’s more than that. There’s often a big dream, which sometimes seems impossibly grand, even... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2013
News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

& Young's New Jersey Entrepreneur Of The Year, Technology 2013 SHI International reaches $5 billion in revenue Thai Lee has an extraordinary ability to take the long view. After earning a degree in economics and biology from Amherst College, she returned View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

espouse their point of view. Lobbying for that through a coalition such as the Council for Institutional Investors (CII) can help. We are a nation of laws. And we can have individual freedoms because we enforce our laws. If we reduce the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

Portrait Project

Dimitra Taslim

they do too, a thoroughly American one. They hit me. I cried, kept my mouth shut, and began to curl my “r”. Western was better. Twenty years have passed. I’ve lived in many countries across Asia. As a VC, I noticed that as China and India... View Details

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