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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association
AFAA when applying, in hindsight, I realized that was a missed opportunity. My favorite attribute about members of the AFAA is the ‘can-do’ attitude. We all have limited, if any, experience in the corporate world, but that does not... View Details
- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
Without those basic requirements, it’s pointless [ ] In my opinion, 90% of the success in any innovation process may be attributed to the setting where that innovation will be set up.” – Page 98 of Interview Transcript. Download this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
book to be published next year. Bilmes cautions that the $92 billion figure is highly conservative for several reasons, above all because the team attributed zero value to households that failed to return the research survey (even though... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
information for industry executives and fashionistas alike. Amed, who made British GQ’s list of the 100 most influential men in Britain in 2011, attributes much of that success to the relationships he developed at HBS. “I was uncertain... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
agency by broadening it to include questions about positive duties. The second is examine the case for justifying these sorts of positive duties by attributing moral agency to business enterprises. Such duties are controversial because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
successful promoter? A: I am not sure there is a secret ingredient. I think it is more about the entire "recipe" being right. Companies try to find athletes with brand attributes that match those of the products the athlete is... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
in Technology and Operations Management, to cochair the School's Honor Committee, and to work with the Admissions Office to help attract a more diverse pool of applicants to the MBA Program. Donelson attributes much of his motivation to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
women attribute the success of the Women’s Initiative in part to its close relationship with the HBSA/NC. “We work hand in hand with the club to put on events to address the interests of the membership,” says Schwartz. And while the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
Global has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” (photo by Quincy Dein) The attributes of a great kiteboarder: “It’s just pure attitude. It’s the confidence that you can do it and the willingness to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
position, and enjoyed higher cumulative wages (by 3.4 percent). Gompers, who was an all-American runner and held the 10,000-meter record at Harvard for 30 years, attributes the differences to a few soft skills, the most obvious being... View Details
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Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
surrounding both the Dürer original and this copy. The original engraving is one of Dürer's earliest; possibly a depiction of Judah and Tamar (Gen. 38: 14-18), or of Berthold Tucher and Anna Pfinzing of Nürnberg. The copy has been View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
political conventions, but firms based in Olympics host cities started ramping up the philanthropy up to four years before the Games actually took place. Marquis attributes this to a combination of goodwill and good public relations.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience
despite her Instagram presence, putting her work out there wasn’t something she was always comfortable with. “It feels like I’m sharing a piece of myself to the public and that’s hard for me because I’m a relatively private person,” said Jo. “This changed when I... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. During years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we show that large firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
of the analysis of specific transactions with an emphasis on whether to pursue a specific transaction or not based on its investment merits. This section of the course will be run as an investment committee. We will focus on the View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
but ultimately I’m going to hire the best person for the job.’ People say that a lot. You have to say, ‘We are going to go find the person who is qualified for this job and also has these other diverse attributes we want.’ That person is... View Details