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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly assigns pre-existing farmer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the product of peers and mentors who have provided support and inspiration for me along the way. So, it’s nice to think... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
example for others. Any success that I have had has been the product of peers and mentors who have provided support and inspiration for me along the way. So, it’s nice to think that I can be that for others in some small way.” Pathipati:... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
display a lot of information about their careers, which makes them available to headhunters and other employers as passive candidates. But they also establish relationships with others to stay in touch with peers and to make new contacts.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
senior associate dean for culture and community three years ago. Via teaching faculty retreats focused on real-life classroom scenarios, coordinating cases featuring issues of diversity thoughtfully across the MBA curriculum and school year, focus View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
sense of having as their common purpose learning new things and applying that knowledge for public welfare. . . . Each individual will be a member of a group small enough so that he feels a full participant in the purpose and activity of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
outperform peer firms based on six-digit Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) groupings in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' stock returns, valuation multiples, forecasted and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
thanking employees (and other peer-to-peer expressions of appreciation) served as an empowering force to boost engagement. In remote work especially, managers don’t always witness the positive contributions that people make. Peers do.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a group of firms that together... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
than twice as likely to pick it for that spot than were their older colleagues (who ranked the Internet only slightly ahead of jet travel). "More people are using the Internet faster than was the case with the automobile, the telephone, or television," concluded one... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
of the ways in which ideas, images, and other forms of organizational content pass between leaders and employees, or from one employee (or group of employees) to another. It occupies roughly the same space that "corporate communication"... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
and college students to share the stories of marginalized communities across campuses. “While at HBS, I look forward to hosting film screenings and collaborating with my peers to ensure that the future of the entertainment industry is... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
improves the visibility of a paper on the SSRN network. We also find limited evidence of gaming due to demographic factors and career concerns, and strong evidence of gaming driven by social comparisons with various peer groups. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
there are other stumbling blocks as well. The fact that boards are groups of people is in a sense a stumbling block, because groups have a hard time working together and so they need effective leadership.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is also the chairman of the C40, a group of fellow mayors from the world’s 40 largest cities who have banded together to fight climate change. Bloomberg has recently returned from a... View Details