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maintenance time after aging a designated number of days (at present, 60 days) File deletion may happen if scratch is nearly full, when announced with 1 to 2 business days notice. Files are not backed up Not always) Files may be touched... View Details

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

welcome. In fact, new hires often enter fresh roles feeling optimistic and confident their organizations are eager to hear from them, but over time, employees increasingly feel less “psychologically safe” to contribute ideas, new research by Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Commencement 2013 Address | About

planning period, six months, we had to arrange for 900 students—each and every one of you—to fly to an emerging market, in most cases a place you’d never visited before. We had to arrange for you to work inside a company—150 of them... View Details

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Nagarjuna adds that this year it was particularly challenging to organize this capstone event given the pandemic. “We fast-tracked all aspects, from planning to execution, in order to have the event organized in time,” he says “Noom was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

Baldwin, Bo Becker, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 210-040 Franz Humer, CEO of the Roche Group, must decide whether to mount a hostile tender offer for the publicly owned shares of Roche's biotechnology subsidiary,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Ildi Nielsen

job market. Students and alumni appreciate her direct approach that includes breaking down the job search into action steps. Ildi is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is an active alumni interviewer. She and her husband manage a View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Retail

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

"Selling tickets isn't where the money is," says Higgins, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, a veteran venture capitalist, and an owner of the Portland Pirates hockey team. "Sports media content is such a big... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

28 Feb 2011
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The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

to the Ten Commandments, the vast majority (eight) of which dictate what thou shalt not do. Meanwhile, in virtually every other aspect of business there is a focus on what to do. Do meet sales projections. Do outperform competitors. Do... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jan 2017
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Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

assessment methodology and business certification standard for gender equality, and Anka Wittenberg, chief diversity officer of technology giant SAP. In addition to becoming one of the first companies to receive EDGE certification, SAP... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Jan 2003
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China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

terms." On the other hand, those without patience should beware as well. As Herb Smith, who lives and teaches in China, puts it, "... invaders will do well to be forewarned to bring their lunch and plan to stay awhile." The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Mar 2011
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China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

cause of a combined economic stagnation and social backwardness that only socialism could cure. In the early and mid-1950s this would lead to the expropriation of the property or exile (to Hong Kong and overseas) of China's business... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

to the teaching of corporate governance at Rice University. He recalls the day in 1972 when HBS Dean Lawrence Fouraker asked him to organize an initiative unprecedented at HBS, a venture that became known as the Energy Project at the Harvard View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

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Planning (LEAP) Organizational Behavior Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Leadership and Happiness General Management Arthur Brooks Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Leading a Family Business (LFB) Strategy Josh Baron... View Details

02 Mar 2023
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Women, Work, and the "M" Word

States (US), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of their careers. Women find themselves in a unique bind just... View Details

21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

Cases & Course MaterialsAnalyzing New Venture Opportunities Harvard Business School Note 809-163 The note describes a systematic process for framing and researching the issues that should be analyzed in the course of considering a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

menu. We illustrate this result empirically in the context of 401(k) plans, where we show a negative relation between the number of investment choices in a 401(k) plan and the quality of the optimal portfolio achievable given those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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For Guests - Commencement 2025

For Guests For Guests Harvard Business School is thrilled to welcome families and guests of our graduates. There are two graduation ceremonies on Thursday, May 29: Harvard University’s morning exercises in Harvard Yard (HBS graduates get... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

Fenn, Jr., Edward L. Anthony (MBA '52), and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD). Volume I, number 1 of the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin appeared on January 3, 1925, after a three-year trial as a special section of the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details