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Reunions - Alumni

Volunteer Reunions Help With Your Reunion Reunions simply aren’t possible without a diverse team of classmates helping to make them happen. Just a few hours of your time can View Details

01 Oct 1999
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standards and about dedication to one's career. There aren't many senior people in this field who will take the time to help younger people along, but Steve was exceptional in that regard. How have your priorities changed since 1974? In... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Working Groups Update | About

to create stronger foundations for understanding and cooperation between Arab, Muslim, and Jewish members of our community for a better present and future. Classroom Culture & Norms Working Group We are working to fine-tune the School’s practices for View Details

15 Nov 2023
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Sound Investment

Steven Rogers outside the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Evanston, Illinois (photo by Gay Riseborough) Steven Rogers outside the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Evanston, Illinois (photo by Gay Riseborough) Retired senior lecturer Steven Rogers (MBA 1985)... View Details

Keywords: diversity; equity; inclusion

02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

product development, customer support, and “Eastern Labs”—a new office enclosed by glass walls and located in the middle of Eastern's main lobby. Rivers provides Labs with $4 million annually—1% of gross revenues—to develop new banking technologies, and promises to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2010
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A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

how do you think about this? A: It's worth putting yourself in the shoes of Ben Bernanke and trying to imagine how he thinks about it. That's going to be helpful in assessing what he might do. As a central banker, Mr. Bernanke has to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2022
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Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals

By: Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam

U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Banks and Banking

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16 Dec 2022
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Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

fair-ranking algorithms can be helpful in increasing the number of underrepresented candidates selected. However, their effectiveness is dampened in those job contexts where employers have a persistent gender preference,” the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

their vast knowledge of disruptive innovation and experience in helping established companies capture game-changing opportunities, consultant Johnson, Harvard Business School professor Christensen, and SAP co-CEO Kagermann set out the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2017
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'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

marketers are feeling pressure to show ROI.” Still, since those first Facebook ads were posted in 2004, social media has proven itself a valuable tool for helping companies create consumer perceptions about particular brands (Old Spice)... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of knowledge that encompasses... View Details

29 Jul 2022
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Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Academy, on Job-Hopping Toward Equity, published recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review. A changing labor landscape The difference in pay that comes from job-hopping only helps to shrink—not eliminate—a longstanding gender pay gap,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Aug 2022
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Reinventing the Future of Business

members’ research, the creation of a more porous research ecosystem with the rest of Harvard and beyond, the integration of new content and insights into the School’s curricula, and the ability to help companies be more competitive in the... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

for faculty members or help them pursue a particular avenue of inquiry across regions. More recently, the responsibilities of HBS global outposts have expanded to include helping to facilitate student... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Esteves Hall | About

so in particular in Brazil. I am delighted that Esteves Hall will play an important role in the education of new generations of business leaders for years to come, and that it will help raise the visibility of Brazil on the world stage.” View Details

22 Oct 2019
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Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

field sales mangers might need to fine tune the final number. From resistance to productivity The success of using such a system, Chung says, depends on two things: the amount of data a company includes, so as to create the most accurate measures, and management’s... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

because of cannibalization and endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper:... View Details