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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
business functions, VanAuken finds that "consulting offers the greatest amount of variety and intellectual stimulation for people like me who get bored easily. It provides maximum independence, flexibility, and freedom in one's personal... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
ex-wife and I with the model that he and she who much is given much is required. They know that they've always had to give back as well. My life has been very intentional relative to giving back and helping others. I believe that every good business View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
organization, they do so with the full expectation that the experience will further their own development, both personal and professional. When Meredith L. Weenick (HBS '02) arrived at HBS, she had seven years of full-time experience in... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
first establish that individuals expect leniency on their birthday. We then show that, compared to other days, transgressors are in fact penalized more severely for transgressing rules when it is their birthday, both by law enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
mere agent for shareholders, it will likely find it hard to justify significant resource allocations resulting from decisions based primarily on altruistic motives rather than company-related needs. Several of these companies were founded by individuals with a strong... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
what my good friend and Harvard Law School Dean John Manning calls “encouraging robust dialogue across differences.” Indeed, you have spent your time at HBS in robust dialogue with classmates and faculty who have different backgrounds,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
person from the community have been hired in her place to do the work? “The experience made me realize that I had work to do to understand what communities need, and that I needed to pick up some skills and learn how to add value,” she... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810086-PDF-ENG Torts 101: Civil Wrongs & Ways to Right Them Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Note 312-033 This note summarizes basic principles of tort View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food and drug View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
and increasing societal inequality are. The invisible hand is, by definition, invisible. Also, tragically, in a capitalist society (but really in any system), individual or corporate greed can run amuck. Simply put, some will choose to cut corners or cross a line. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
33-year-old Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) is making his name on: It presents Armstrong, typically portrayed as a postage-stamp hero, as a complex man who staked a nation’s place on the moon—and in history—at enormous View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
and Again How rituals help us create order from chaos, affect performance, and ascribe meaning to the mundane details of our personal and professional lives Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
factors investigated were found to be significant for at least one segment, only consumer price index, personal savings rate, and real gross domestic product were strongly significant. To explore further the dynamics of the segments and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these accomplishments. This understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton