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17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

Working in a small fishing village on the Panama-Costa Rica border, Skelly helped to make decisions about micro lending in order to generate small-business growth. “I didn’t know much about business, but when you’re trying to figure out... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

survival. Publisher's Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6083/907 Working PapersDefense Acquisition Reform, 1960-2009: An Elusive Goal Authors:J. Ronald Fox, David Allen, Thomas Lassman, Walton Moody, and Philip Shiman Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Personal Branding Course | HBS Online

this course. I discovered a lot of information about brands, steps that should take place during creating, building, keeping and evaluating brand over time. A lot of things that I learned I have already applied to my work and I see some... View Details

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

about 100 HBS alums mentor 400 students from local universities and polytechnics every year. During my tenure, I want to build on the work of my predecessors and make the HBS Club of Singapore a platform for HBS alums to make a difference... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study the intersection of time,... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been called... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

the world Sixteen years ago, Elkins completed a dissertation on colonial-era Africa, which earned her a PhD in history from Harvard and ended up making history in the world. Based on years of extensive interviews with elderly Kenyans and veteran British colonial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/BPEA/Fall-2014/Fall2014BPEA_Weinzierl.pdf?la=en Working Papers Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

leadership is the prevalent theme for me. It has been proved in my business and my life repeatedly. Situations that many view as hopeless and beyond rescue have been transformed by a committed leader." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "People... View Details

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Working PapersDishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (revised) Authors:Lisa Lixin Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Eligibility Eligibility and selection are determined by a Review Committee of faculty and staff. You are a graduating MBA student. You are the founder of a social enterprise, and you will be working on this full-time for the year of the... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

above and below, by virtue of having been there for a long time and by virtue of people thinking that given that this is your baby—that what you're interested in is in the interest of the organization—that is more likely to happen if you're one of the founders or major... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

the book? How did your writing of the book unfold? Kanter: There were a couple of things that led to Men and Women of the Corporation. First of all, almost as soon as I began working in a faculty position in the late 1960s, I wanted to... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a View Details

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and the field of innovation." Austin is writing a book—the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages.... View Details

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

When Pamela Joyner (MBA 1984) looks at the work of artists of African descent that hang on her walls, in part, she sees her own story. “I’m interested in ensuring that artists of color are not erased from the narrative,” says the longtime... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the influence of this work represents a... View Details