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01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Key Themes: The financial cost (Sharpe ratio) of small screens is negligible. Proxy voting enables retail level engagement with companies and studies demonstrate proxy voting can influence corporate... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

classroom to vote on issues or work in small groups? Moss isn’t talking about the essence of the case method as he explains the importance of teaching civics as a dynamic and engaging topic, but he could be: “The three branches of... View Details

Keywords: April White

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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

extracurricular learning opportunity while he pursued his MBA studies until the team entered the HBS New Venture Competition in 2021. They won the Tough Technology Prize, an award that came with $10,000 and, more importantly for Goble, a stamp of approval on the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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50 Years of Women in MBA

Harvard Business School 50 Years of Women in the MBA Program 50 Years of Women in the MBA program Accelerating the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world. In December 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

could continue our success as part of Cisco, but it meant I had to build Altiostar from scratch,” he says. By all accounts, Dahod has met the challenge. Altiostar is still in stealth mode, but the press recently reported that it had received a $50 million View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Sep 2016
HBS Seminar

Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

empowered by giving them opportunities to share ideas, as Lay’s has done by asking its customers to vote on the chip flavor the brand should create next. “This is a new trend, and it provides great information, allowing companies to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that laws aimed at securing the voting process,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

had worked an average of 12 to 15 years in a variety of industries. “Consumers vote with their pocketbooks, and they’re saying they want this product. It makes the consumer feel beautiful. Who is the government or an activist organization... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

that a reasonable person simply gives up and walks away. A confused person might still vote yes, but only to stop the conversation and with no commitment toward making the idea become a reality. A complex topic is not needed for a... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

calling to tell me?" Ruben's area had no operational responsibilities, thus would be involved in an outage only peripherally. Barton imagined his team voting on who the bearer of bad news would be. "Because everybody else is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

with implementation since some members of the group are already showing their displeasure by voting with their feet. In fact, keeping people involved in the process is, in the end, perhaps the most crucial factor in making a decision—and... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

that being personally chosen by a sponsor as a protégé could serve as an important vote of confidence; and two, the idea that sponsors’ compensation being linked to protégé outcomes might serve as further motivation for the protégé. They... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

poll for the case had a fully split vote across four different options, and the most thought-provoking debates started from this place of no consensus, with students advocating for conflicting positions. Some of the most insightful... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Mention for the City of Venice Award for Intellectual Property in 2007. Arthur I Segel : Honored as 2007 Man of the Year by the 21st Century Fund, a foundation in Brookline Massachusetts that supports new initiatives in public education. Arthur I Segel : View Details

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

the researchers found a 7.7 percent increase in the average partisanship of executive teams in that 12-year period, with particularly high year-over-year increases in 2010, 2012, and 2016. Overall, executives who vote similarly are 34... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

still represents the largest country in terms of actual representation, its UN-related influence has steadily waned relative to population. At least until the 1980s, that didn't seem to matter, says Werker, since its voting record matched... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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