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03 Dec 2008
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Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

(in the absence of action) that do not penalize individuals, limiting choices to those that are more comprehensible, taxing detrimental choices, and providing full disclosure to better inform decision-makers. In short, the goal is to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

2022
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The Internet's Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Society

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24 Apr 2014
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Driving the family business onto a global stage

vehicles, Mahindra has engineered mergers and acquisitions that have catapulted the Mumbai-based corporation onto the world stage. Today, the multibillion-dollar enterprise is involved in information technology, logistics, infrastructure... View Details

12 Oct 2010
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Underestimating Wealth Inequality

Keywords: wealth inequality; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack... View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today!... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Looking back; looking forward

leadership of Senior Associate Dean John Quelch. Very early on in the planning stage, John and his team decided we should concentrate our energies on the challenges facing business and society in the century ahead, and research... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 May 2019
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Future Source

Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.) “Thirty years from now, I want to enjoy living here,” he says. “For me, that means building businesses that will alter the trajectory of society and thousands and thousands of people.” View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Emeritus Bill Sahlman (MBA 1975). During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the challenges facing business and View Details

18 Nov 2014
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Enhancing educational opportunities in the community

Courtney Miller Cavatoni (MBA 1999) works to further educational opportunities as board chair of an independent school in southwestern Virginia, where good schools are attracting families and businesses to the area. (Published November 2014) View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan

In an effort to expand the reach of its Asia-Pacific Research Center, HBS has opened a satellite office in Japan. Masako Egawa (MBA '86) has been named executive director of the Japan Research Office in Tokyo. Formerly an executive director in charge of the transport... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Showing possibilities and new experiences to young people

Sam Duboc (MBA 1988), a private equity investor, talks about leading the nonprofit Pathways to Education to open possibilities and new experiences to young people in Canada. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans

Ensuring that quality, Teo says, means focusing not only on growing fast but also on growing well. For Funding Societies, that means a borrower must have at least $250,000 in revenue and meet with a loan officer before the Funding View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

“helps businesses provide this increasingly important information in a more rationalized way.” Massie's energy and output is even more remarkable given the fact that some twenty years ago, he acquired HIV in the course of his many... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap

yet, the crisis has shed light on areas where business leaders can make an important difference, such as supporting schools and programs that enable students to gain skills and talents for productive employment and create a foundation for sustained economic growth that... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

genetic research revolution is changing our global economy and society more dramatically than any other single event in the history of humankind," Goldberg observes. "On the other hand, we have a worldwide agricultural economic depression... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Agriculture; Scientific Research and Development Services

10 Oct 2014
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Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

and Campaign Vice Chair and Chicago Regional Chair Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Two inspiring new films – My HBS and A Vision for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign

01 Dec 2014
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The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

out into the world. An investment in their leadership potential, and in their potential to make a difference, has far-reaching impact—on the students and on society more broadly. “Fellowships enable the diversity of perspectives that is... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

innovator develop his idea before selling it? In the context of selling original movie ideas, I present a model that features the writer's private information on the idea's value, different protection levels associated with different... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2018 (Revised September 2019)
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Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency

By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta

Economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take... View Details