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19 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Bridges: Remembering the “Why”

without kindness There are two true things about HBS students: we are relentless in our pursuit of quality, and we are well past the arena of individual achievement. We want to make things the very best they can be – the best slide deck,... View Details

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Jewish American Heritage Month | Baker Library

Jewish individuals in the United States. Enjoy the latest issue of Jewish Business News via ABI/ProQuest . Read the 10 Key Findings About Jewish Americans from Pew Research. Contemporary Collections Contemporary Collections aim to support... View Details

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

and through triumphs of engineering and optics to develop, produce, patent, protect, market, and adapt aspiring products of superior design and utility that served human needs and expression. His unifying vision of Polaroid took form within a company of View Details

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

ensuring that the individual expense reports do not exceed the total fund awarded to the team. Failure to meet all program guidelines and to provide SEI with the necessary expense receipt documentation and/or to get approval for expenses... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

solve the problem, but because if every company did that, there would be a lot of money going into building a carbon-free energy system, and that would make a real difference at scale. So I think there is a way in which these individual... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

it can shorten the time an individual needs to develop some of the traits we look for in a manager. It's often an indicator of a strong desire to learn and grow, because in most cases people have interrupted a career to return to school. View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board

firm that cares about good corporate governance.” I believe the way to good corporate governance is to add only the highest quality individuals to boards. In some ways, we used to have an unspoken quota system for boards. It was that men... View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

office on the African continent came in tandem with news the firm would partner with the IT Industry Development Agency over the course of three years to offer startup boot camps for seed-stage companies, a scaling initiative for ventures at the pre-series A stage, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

immoral and unjust, but it’s also bad for business. Just Work is the solution. Scott’s new book reveals a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively. This is the essential guide leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

divides resources to a process-based perspective focused on ways to link and leverage the individual competencies and capabilities that exist within the organization. And," he concludes, "they need to shift their attention from... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

familiar logic for rule utilitarianism beyond the realm of individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

only responded to globalization but also driven and framed it. The study of particular industries over the long term, employing deep archival research on individual firms, has generated unique insights on evolving corporate structures,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

three studies, we find that individuals are more likely to break rules if they have been led to expect that achieving high levels of performance will be easy rather than difficult, even if breaking rules means behaving unethically. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

Although I will describe research on networks at both the organizational and the individual levels, I shall focus on the organization level. In addition, in the interest of brevity, I will emphasize horizontal relationships among... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2015
Blog Post

A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

passions. Emma Konzen (Smith College) I felt at home in the classroom setting immediately. Students from all-women’s institutions across the country were seated around me in a lecture hall, eagerly anticipating the first class. It was a welcomed and familiar feeling.... View Details

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

open students up to the reality that each of us have massive blind spots, and that it’s our responsibility to explore our blind spots rather than shy away from them. Austin: Systemic racism is not a product of past decisions and decision-makers, it is an active choice... View Details

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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

"Diversity Spotlight" feature, where you can filter for U.S. start-ups founded and led by individuals of Middle Eastern/North African descent, which includes Arab Americans. Use GuideStar Pro to locate nonprofit organizations who list... View Details

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

add value because individual countries have nuances that necessitate an understanding of local context before one can do business there.” This article was originally published on the HBS Alumni page . Author : Jennifer Gillespie Topics:... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow... View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

business dashboards, and other tools for clients. The end results are “microweather” forecasts for clients ranging from major airlines to roofing companies to individual users through a smartphone app. “We’re the only private weather... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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