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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
This raises a number of questions about who pays a lot...and who pays a little. Can sellers take low-cost subtle actions that will get the people who pay a little to pay a little bit more? Past research on social value View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
economic reforms. Guided by Cohen, the firm has emerged over the past three decades as one of the world’s dominant private-equity investment groups, raising or advising funds totaling more than $20 billion. At the peak of his game, Cohen...
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- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
week-long boot camps, or team-building activities for conventions,” she says. Markowitz notes that two HBS students—Meredith Uram (MBA 2014) and Andrew Dunckelman (MBA 2014)—helped to orient her and her board away from their original plan...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
right-wing cant: Liberals are humorless drones. Truth be told, Navasky is more mensch than menace, an old-school crusader for social and economic justice who can’t bring himself to say anything mean about anybody. That includes those...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
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The Right Thing to Do
Ronnie and Larry Ackman (MBA 1963) and produced by New York public broadcaster WNET. The three episodes in the series premiered on WNET and are now being offered to some 400 business schools in the United States and Great Britain “in hope they will be used either for...
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- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
“Indigenous peoples’ relationship with fire was instrumental in their life,” Sprinkles explains. “It meant protection, a way to cook their food, and formed the orientation for their social organization....
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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
misuse of social media, and cyber attacks are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity that we see dominating the headlines every day. How can capitalism be sustained? And who should spearhead the...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
Impressive as they are, numbers like these don’t reflect the building’s less tangible, but no less important, impact on the HBS community. From the beginning, Spangler was never just about meals, or study sessions, or events. Its planners and architects aimed to create...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
a primary source of inspiration. Curiel, 18, walked away from that same deadly crash with minor injuries. He sees some symbolism in the fact that his father was making the trip from Oregon to California to take him to freshman orientation...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
B. Clark, an ambitious academic program led by several HBS faculty members, and a variety of social activities. Norman A. Berg, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration and chair of the OPM Program, welcomed participants at...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
words of HBS professor emeritus Theodore Levitt. "He said, ŒBe unique, don't compete. If you can get yourself into a dominant position where you have price flexibility, do it, because you'll be a lot happier not having to worry about the...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
groups that fear the social consequences of making errors. "There are real differences in the levels of 'psychological safety' that exist across teams - even those within the same company - and those differences correspond with...
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Judith A. Ross
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
reasons. First, data that I analyzed with Dr. Tim Butler of HBS and that I detail in the book show that Rich and King dominate the top motivations of entrepreneurs. Second, at key forks in the road, Rich options directly conflict with...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
deeply that the students learned. I also had a big personality and could engage the students in learning. Today, we have faculty from many backgrounds, and there isn't one strong, dominant culture. In a way, it might be more difficult to...
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