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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
long been based on the principle of delegating tasks to subordinate officers (take the hill without specifying how, leaving it to the judgment of the relevant unit commander—called Aufgabentaktik), while the American army tends to follow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
was founded by Henry B. Hyde in 1859 and under his leadership became the largest life insurance company in the world. The collection includes family correspondence between Hyde and his wife and his son James H. Hyde, who later became vice... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
relying on $500,000 in financing provided by family members, friends, and "angel" investors, recurred in accounts of what she was trying to accomplish. "This is by far the most challenging thing I've ever done," she... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Investment This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
commercial buildings in the asset mix. Cities don't claim that office buildings, retail malls, or factories were built for the Games. Even Olympic housing is seldom successfully transformed into apartments or public housing once the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
change he may need to continue into a second year. Yet the physical separation from his family had begun to take a toll. Had the executive done enough to institutionalize change or was it still too dependent on his personal relationships... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Dance, dance revolution: “I studied modern dance in college; the originality of the choreography attracted me, but it... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Foundation shows how the unhealthiness of an industry’s workers correlates closely with the unhealthiness of the communities in which those workers and their families reside. Companies that invest in community health have the potential to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
only treatments are maintenance dialysis and kidney transplantation. The former requires visits to a treatment center for at least 12 hours a week, while a transplant—from either a living family member or a matching deceased donor—can... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
coffee shops are being transformed into webinars, video calls, and 1:1 conversations. Other organizations are building on their already robust virtual recruiting practices and sharing ideas on to how to adapt. There are also new recruiting strategies being envisioned... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
to do that. And luckily Gallatin was this European of infinite patience and extraordinary strength of character. One of the biggest things I wondered about is why Gallatin came to the United States in the first place. He was the scion of a wealthy View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002) sits in front of a photo mural on the walls of the Mercy Corps offices in Washington, DC After a full-on morning of Zoom sessions from her home office in Potomac, Maryland,... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives and their families both abroad and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
relying on] traditional sources of capital. It’s family offices and it’s funding partners that are looking for a stable yield.” Greener pastures, in every sense of the word. View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
fifteen hours of live programming, five days a week. "It's a pretty full plate," she admits in an interview at the network's Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters. The CNBC offices clearly favor function over form, with dozens of reporters... View Details
- Profile
Monne Williams
At Duke, Monne Williams wasn't satisfied with playing rugby or even working in the athletics office on sponsorships and corporate relations. Curiosity led to questions: "Who do companies sponsor? What's the benefit? What's the return... View Details
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Shad Membership Eligibility | About
Shad Membership Eligibility HBS Alumnus and domestic partners of members of the HBS community are welcome to sign up for membership at Shad. No other family members are eligible. For detailed information about these standards, please read... View Details