The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

Mills considers the complexities of a school administrator’s job, she says it’s not enough to be just a great manager or instructional leader. “You have to be able to marry the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

trying to avoid. It’s alleged that pressure was increasingly being applied by top management to meet cost and delivery targets. Sales had done a great job selling planes several years out at prices based on costs that it was thought would... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

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Casey Gerald

“If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, `This sucks. I’m going to do my own thing.’”... View Details

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

is a lot other work at the school going on around these issues by many other faculty. For instance, Dave Scharfstein is doing great work on how capital market forces influence View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang

like in the 1980s and ’90s? That was one of the great things about the high-tech industry: I could dial up on my computer from home when nobody... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

being able to repay their loans on the schedule required by the lender. Microfinance has evolved as this very standardized one-size-fits-all loan product you repay on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis.... View Details

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Michael Maples

leap across the chasm, from startups to investing. In so doing, he became one of the most successful venture capitalists in the technology sector, with a unique investing... View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

a great manager at the firm alongside the support of relationship managers at INROADS, who acted as career coaches to help young professionals navigate their careers. At... View Details

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

They have great natural ability. You just need to add the self-confidence to it. Several years later suddenly had an opportunity to go back to Virginia, which was the state in... View Details

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

the valuation work on this somewhat unorthodox deal. After initial contact with the CEO, we spent a great deal of time ensuring that the key... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

employees. During the Great Depression, Levi Strauss workers were kept on the payroll refurbishing their factory until business picked up. In 1982, when current CEO Bob Haas... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

your book, examining the experiences of more than 4,000 women across four races and generations, what did the data conclude around the way forward? Jacqui: Our findings seem to... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907:... View Details

04 Jan 2021
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How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

Over the years, our research has told us that the mark of a great organization is that it “hires for attitude, trains for skills.” How do we apply that here? It requires an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full

and CEO, Ranch Road Boots Neutrall is a great idea, currently focused as a D2C venture using Amazon, social media, and other online marketing initiatives to build the business. After View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“That was what I wanted for a career.” Shilla’s ambitions have deep roots within her family. Her mother grew up under a military dictatorship in South Korea, where she was “an activist under great peril.” Her father grew up in View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

fixing the problems? And maybe my answer would have been different 15, 20 years ago, but I think increasingly I believe that the answer is no. There is a groundswell of great... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details