Free Will - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

"You will get a free meal for your family every week at a Panera that's closest to you. And as soon as we can get you back, we will get you back." It's the least we could do.... View Details

23 May 2024
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Datar emphasized how important the School’s community values have been to the Working Groups’ efforts. “Respect, honesty and integrity, and accountability are the foundation for so much of our work,” Dean Datar said. “They are an important counterpoint to the right of... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

have a business model that will get us to profitability. We make money when users buy offsets. So currently the primary service we provide that customers want to pay for is if they want to offset their footprint, the average subscriber... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation

has helped it reach new markets and is now beginning to investigate acquisitions. In another long play, Britt Cool launched an accelerator program, Build with Kanbrick, in 2021. Leaders of midsize companies can apply for the free... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

because they are selling you more than books. In the early 2000s, when these bookstores were competing with Amazon on price, they were losing; they will always lose in the face of Amazon’s buying power. But since the late 2000s, many... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

are again underway, this time by returned emigrants hoping to entrench themselves by weakening the ‘permanent government’. Pre-war rhetoric has not translated into free elections. Conservative, tribal and religious candidates View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2003
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How Much is Fair?

with 170,000 employees that’s critical to our national defense,” Tobias noted that description fits both the CEO of Boeing ($4 million annual salary, plus incentives compensation) and the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps ($169,860 annual salary). He acknowledged... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2004
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Starting Off on the Right Foot

sounding stupid. “Acknowledging areas of ignorance helps you gather information and provides good modeling for others,” Waldroop notes. “Be up front with people. Let them know that you will be relying heavily on their input at first. And... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Jun 1999
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HBSAA of Israel Sponsors Middle East Outreach

interested in Israel and the Middle East. Free copies are now available. The association is also expanding its international steering committee to include people living outside Israel who are interested in the region. In addi-tion, on... View Details

23 May 2018
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The Work-Life Balancing Act

In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Jackie Coleman and John Coleman (MBA 2010) write that their decision to start a family “changed nearly everything in our working and personal lives.” From sleep schedules to finances, free... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success

Francisco Foundation, and has been a director of more than a dozen corporations. If pressed, however, Hellman will fess up. Although he insists that his father — Marco F. Hellman (MBA ’29) — helped him get his only job offer out of HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research

area. “An exciting challenge for us is the increasing pace and scope of innovation. the coming years will require careful strategic investment and creativity to ensure we can support the faculty in their work and preserve HBS’s... View Details

15 Apr 2022
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Funding His Purpose

institution for nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies. Instead of relying on often restrictive grants, nonprofits with revenue-creating programs—say, an organization that offered free medical treatment in... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

think so, but I don’t know when that will happen. The phase we are in now is “augmentation.” AI is not replacing the need for human labor; it is automating certain lower-level tasks and freeing up humans to... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Thursday, February 23, more than 60 alumni and guests gathered in Florida to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in Palm... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
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HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

to them wherever they are in the world," Rogers notes. Another advantage is that alumni will no longer be limited in their choice of Internet access providers. "Alumni who already have accounts with AOL may choose to keep them, but they... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

week there will be some kind of evening function as well, which I don’t particularly enjoy but know I need to do. In this job, there’s really no one to tell you how to proceed. At first I found that a bit unsettling, but now I understand... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be... View Details