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January 2018
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Spark Therapeutics: Pioneering Gene Therapy

By: Robert F. Higgins and Tina Liu

Spark Therapeutics is a pioneering gene therapy startup. It was spun out of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The company had taken with it much of the intellectual property and talent that CHOP had developed. The company is considering an initial public... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Strategy

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08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

around them. The circumstances of work have become more difficult. Their responses included: “Keeping morale and motivation up amongst employees while they are dealing with the stress of COVID-19 as well as parenting/schooling children... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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1959 Howard W. Goldsmith Fellowship Through the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship, awards of approximately $10,000 are given to 7-10 first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the... View Details

24 May 2021
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Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a system-wide IT implementation, a project that affects the daily work of a few thousand... View Details

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Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2016
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How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

identity, however, is extremely difficult when an organization’s environment changes. Following a profound external shock, an organization’s design must change, as must elements of its identity. But how do they do so? Do they both change... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Programme Finance Initiative Eric Usher heads the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), a global partnership bringing together the United Nations with a global group of banks, insurers, and asset managers View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

environmental, social, and governance [ESG] performance for long-term value creation.” Murday developed and launched the company in 2020, collaborating with faculty, experienced entrepreneurs, and fellow students at the i-lab, a physical and virtual learning View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 Jun 2017
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relative to the base model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52788 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 13, 2021
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Managing Through Crunch Time—Without Burning Out Your Team

By: Flavio Serapiao, Andrew Hill and Boris Groysberg

Crunch times—the long, stressful hours of work that are often required in the final weeks before a new product launch—can have an inordinate impact on the success of businesses and they’re powerful shapers of organizational culture. Effective leaders understand that... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Situation or Environment; Management Skills

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face a decoupling risk that leads them to be more likely to enact substantive actions in situations where they are likely to be monitored. 2014 Working Paper The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities... View Details

13 Mar 2023
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What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

When we tell microfinance practitioners about this evidence, it can be hard for them to really engage with it because of their work on the ground and the anecdotes they hear about lives that have been transformed. Roth: Meanwhile, there’s... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

17 Jan 2018
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If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

to provide some explanation and give a measured response justifying the pay disparity.” Connections between wage disparity and company performance are detailed in Rouen’s recent working paper, Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Feb 2021
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Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

start of a project,” the researchers note. “The choice of the writer (and his/her gender), to a great extent, influences or correlates with later choices—including the hiring of a director and actors/actresses—and signals the type of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

12 Feb 2018
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Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

the service process rather than the line they’re waiting in. “Showing customers the work that’s being done to serve them can cause them to mind waiting less and value the service more,” he says. In virtual View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

16 Feb 2023
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ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers, business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external environment. They may also have the chance to shape that View Details

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