Subjective Well Being - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

loss of control, overbearing input, disproportionate reward to the wrong shareholders, or founders being squeezed out of their own businesses. Investment can also prop up a business artificially, building false hope and disappointment in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

learning had always been on my list, but I could never find the time to do it in the past. This summer was the perfect timing as I was waiting for my OPT work authorization to come through before being able to work again. Joshua Rodriguez... View Details

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1.4.14 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA

ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible with... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable... View Details

18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the important emotions that central banks should focus on. More ambitiously, contentment might be considered... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

branches of the armed forces as well as the civilian ranks. Green and his men, all volunteers for this duty, were tasked with retrieving the American airmen who had been downed in Axis territory; about 60 were already gathered in Banská... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

overachievement bonuses) to keep high performers, low performers, and average performers engaged throughout the year. Managers should be careful in setting and adjusting quotas. For instance, studies show that ratcheting (raising a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

commitments to diversity as seriously as our obligations to our customers and shareholders." In accepting Levi Strauss's award, Haas noted that the company "has always tried to be a source of positive change in the communities in which we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

on reported cash flows. Those analysts who took WorldCom's reported income as proof that it was doing well would have come closer to the truth if they had simply calculated free cash flows. Then they would have seen the capital... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

and families, and also hosts conferences and retreats for groups both large and small. Taken together, the programming presents a forward vision for the region, Marietta says. “If our future economy is going to be based on outdoor... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

13 Sep 2016
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September 13, 2016

behavior should be considered a critical leadership skill. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50320 Summer 2016 California Management Review Dynamic Capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing Internal Co-opetition... View Details

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

their shared objectives of pursuing entrepreneurship at some point in the future. Three years after graduation, they felt that they had identified an opportunity worth pursuing. “After three years of being a general manager at McKinsey... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

Working with my cofounders, we saw an opportunity to supply much-needed vaccines worldwide without refrigeration or cold storage using silk. During our first year as a bootstrapped startup, Vaxess won the inaugural Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, as View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

For Mendu, that meant the chance to work with Detroit’s former Chief Policy Officer Kim Rustem on a number of initiatives including the development and launch of the city’s Mental Health Co-Response Partnership, as well as with Andrea... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former US Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought that an organization that... View Details

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

feeling really privileged and tremendously excited to be given this opportunity to shape the next chapter of the School that we all love. I am very eager to get started, and even as I say that I am aware that we are in a highly unusual... View Details

18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

the school and graduated in 2003. “This was the first college in Georgia founded by former slaves, and has a strong connection to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Its mission is to be ‘a haven for all souls.’ It takes... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

content of the work, the context in which I worked, the issues that I was dealing with, the unfolding of the global financial markets, as well as the political and economic situation that shaped especially the emerging markets of Latin... View Details

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