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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
focusing on four principles: health systems improvement, HIV prevention and care, accompaniment, and social and economic support. By January 2007, the Rwinkwavu site had conducted 67,137 HIV tests and provided antiretroviral therapy to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
could do more for communities when they close a plant or conduct a large layoff. “Many sectors, such as transportation, mining, chemicals, and heavy manufacturing, would do well to engage in community development,” he declares. “I believe... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the authors spent two years... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
well. Clearly the man-of-action hero is a very important model for professional life for the upper middle class. However, for the purposes of this academic paper, we had to restrict the boundaries on our claims. Q: Are there people in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
these collections offer rich professional and personal perspectives into early Sino-American relations, as well as insight into the complexities of the business lives of American traders in the treaty ports. The ongoing, close business... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
In a more general context, these concepts became "people, opportunity, context, and deal." That turns out to be a powerful way of thinking about things. With this body of knowledge, we're able to say to first-year students, "If you're going to get a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
group delivered 171 programs—including 133 residential programs, 25 hybrid programs, and 13 virtual programs—that attracted 12,385 participants from around the world. More than 7,200 Executive Education students participated in the 81 Focused and Comprehensive... View Details
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
figure’s instructions to deliver electrical shocks to innocent people—remind yourself that most people, just like us, with an equal commitment to decency, succumbed in this situation. It’s a lesson you should keep in mind, in your View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abstract—This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers. I define relevant research papers as those whose research questions address problems found... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
goal. When you consider that your job-perhaps even your industry-may disappear, you have no choice but to take control. Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
freer, but are less safe and worse off than before. Only a professional army and police force can deliver security. To calm things and establish a legitimate government, Iraq needs early free elections. This may not give Westerners the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
Zealand, Australia, and Chile, and approximately 400,000 acres of prime farmland in major agricultural regions of North America and Australia. As a responsible steward of agricultural and forest holdings, and a producer of sustainable food and fiber, we’re committed to... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
of Public Economics What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?" By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Stephen P. Zeldes Abstract—We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics,... View Details