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16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

2009, Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn has developed keen insight into the exigent nature of such challenges. Her experiences there prompted her to study how teaching communication and negotiation skills at critical... View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management , published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural View Details

09 Oct 2001
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Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the concept of the four-drive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/11/missing-values-data-science-and-r/ Natural Language Processing (NLP) Python General Packages NLTK is a robust NLP package in Python. For an introduction and hands-on experience using the NLTK package,... View Details

December 2021
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Bunge: Building a Sustainable Future?

By: Forest Reinhardt, David E. Bell, Pedro Levindo and Ruth Costas

Bunge, one of the world’s leading agribusiness traders and processors, strives to comply with its commitment to having a deforestation-free value chain by 2025 while it considers potential new business growth areas. After a complex turnaround, which involved one of the... View Details

Keywords: Deforestation; Value Chain; Agribusiness; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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19 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Moving to the U.S. With a Family

we would have to figure out as we went along. I could have never anticipated the support we would get once we arrived on HBS campus. I quickly found out that I have 900+ classmates to call on as a resource when faced with almost any... View Details

23 May 2016
Blog Post

Advice for Prospective Students from Africa

like the natural choice for a couple of reasons. I wanted a program that was focused on delivering a solid general management and business education, and one that had a history of developing leaders. I also wanted to attend a school that... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Countdown To Remote Learning

naturally going to be more distractible online. “We needed to vary the pedagogy frequently to keep them engaged,” says Datar. Faculty members used polls before and during class to assess what students were thinking and build the... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

New Releases

changing nature of the work force, or new and provocative insights into the history of American business? These are among the many topics currently being explored by HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

wife, Heather, a sixth-grade teacher. The pair live in Seattle with their infant son, Collin. “But before that, I want to work at many different nonprofits — to sample what it's like and to see how well they apply resources to their... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Health, Social Assistance

17 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

Damalas details how the hotels he developed from the early 1990s utilize natural resources in a sustainable fashion. “When you can [maintain] natural corridors, not only do you... View Details

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

"spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

natural human and human-informed technological bias. Embedded Ethics A distributed pedagogy initiative at the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences that embeds philosophers directly into computer science... View Details

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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog

manager’s job. Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) explores the kinds of decisions made by general managers (GMs) and how context influences both the nature of the choices to be made and the effectiveness of the... View Details

12 May 2015
News

A Flash of Insight

Bank. The fund’s early performance, however, had not been impressive. It was the height of the dot-com frenzy, and Cooper was betting against the dot-coms. Although he was hedged by long positions in cheap, cash-flow-producing natural... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

02 Sep 2013
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The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

then Liberia would be unlikely, in our opinion, not to grow at double-digit rates from the moment that the ore is exported in quantity, so long as market conditions for natural resources remain strong,"... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

delicious, nutritious food that is just plowed under every year” Alvarez was a facilitator during a conference in June at Harvard Law School on the topic Reduce and Recover: Save Food for People. The conference included seminal figures in the movement, such as Dana... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

like a renewed democratic process and appropriate regulatory regimes. I believe that these problems are usually best dealt with by the state, but in many cases that is not happening." Moreover the private sector has resources and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

community resource because it nourished the livestock that provided a foundation for the local agricultural economy. If the commons fell into disrepair—either through overuse or neglect—everyone suffered. Although taking care of the... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

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