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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
prominent South African leaders, like Nelson Mandela, and to the national soccer team. But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its progressive constitution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
not-so-new phenomenon. Simply put, it’s the act of buying things to make us feel better. Part of the experience is finding and purchasing that just-right something, but an equally important component is the thrill of the chase — the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
challenge, which is aligning the interests of different stakeholders. When you think about a business, ideally the customers are paying for a product that generates revenue for the firm, which ultimately generates value in the form of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
Revenues increased 115 percent year over year to $174 million, exceeding our forecast. Equally significant was the group’s ability to integrate the knowledge gained during the pandemic, complementing 116 residential programs with 52 fully... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
composition of their footprints changes as personal spending changes in this time. I personally can give my own data as an example. Previously, about 50 percent of my carbon footprint was travel and then food, home, and shopping were about View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by their competitors. This... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
injection of venture capital, at least an equal number of entrepreneurs has probably turned to other resources such as savings, "angels," or even dear old Mom and Dad. Consider, for example, the tale of Thermo Electron's George N.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
applicable to every listed company in the world: "The market capitalisation of any company listed on the [Johannesburg Stock Exchange] equals its economic value and not its book value. The financial report of a company, as seen in its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
friction-often pay too little attention to it in their approach to talent management. By managing language carefully, firms can hire and develop the best employees, improve collaboration on global teams, and strengthen the company's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
extractors, and thus to FIJI Water and not to its competitors. FIJI Water responded by calling the increase "discriminatory" and threatening to shut down its operations, but in the end its negotiations resulted in its agreeing to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
takes the man’s point of view in hopes of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women, to political correctness, or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws. From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story by Ganesh Natarajan... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
is an equally genuine goal. Self-interest should not be confused with exploitation or opportunism, as both are very different things. One of the arguments put forward is that there is no inherent tension between altruism and enlightened... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
that truth equals facts plus context. And that I wanted to portray a more complete context. So, look, I think you read the book and you say, "There's a lot of things to admire in GE." But there's no way that I could tell a complete story... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the third of five children. The family placed a heavy emphasis on the value of good, honest labor; at 18, he became a firefighter to help pay his university expenses. The occupying workers also came from large families, and many had... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
equal or greater positive impact on their own happiness, is also presented. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/rudd%20aaker%20norton_f755239e-42e7-41ed-9ee0-76e85c19445d.pdf Working Papers High School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne