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01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

for Fijians, and plans are under way for a $2 million hospital for the islanders. "The Fijians don't have much material wealth, but they have an extreme amount of happiness, which derives from their character, their security, their... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

We are NET12, an MIT|HBS startup focused on accelerating a carbonless future by helping corporations reach and sustain their net zero goals efficiently. NetaCarbon - Grace Lam (MBA 2024) - NetaCarbon is a... View Details

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

would be well-placed to monitor the financial condition of a mega bank and set the compensation of its senior executives in order to attain its dual goals of maximizing long-term profits for its shareholders... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

described the register for the first time and explained how it would prevent theft and give an accurate account of the day's receipts. The goal of this stage was to schedule a... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

03 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)

means being able to use my story to encourage and empower others who don’t think that they belong or fit in. Who really wants to fit in? It is so much more spectacular to stand out. Maren Quezada, Class of 2023 To me, FGLI means... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science

“ One unstated objective of science is to make a difference: to learn something, or make something, that changes the way people think or behave. Many of the biggest discoveries — the most important scientifically View Details

Keywords: science; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students... View Details

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

does not help build deal-execution skills; students instead should enroll in Entrepreneurial Finance , Private Equity Finance , or Venture Capital Journey . The course covers three broad categories: THE INVESTORS AND FUND TERMS PRIVATE... View Details

13 Dec 2018
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Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

supply chain, for business strategy, and for the ways in which firms work with stakeholders. In fact, economic prosperity and growth depend to a large degree on the health of our ecosystem, View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

privately-held company, headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Its long-term objective is to build a diversified portfolio focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of energy View Details

March 2011
Article

Talking Past Each Other?: Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Cognition and Thinking; News; Conflict and Resolution

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

Explore how strategy is generated by an organization’s purpose and competitive context. Differentiate each component of a business’s architecture and diagnose misalignments in the system. Highlights... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

with significant rewards," says Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), which coordinates the fellowship program. Childress, herself a former fellow who worked with the Boys and Girls... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

in magnitude than the tendency to believe that current others share one’s views (false- consensus effect), arises across cultures, is distinct from general optimism, is strongest when people perceive their views as being objective rather... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

finding ways to reduce inequality to create a more just and equal society for all. In making decisions on how to best intervene, policymakers commonly rely on the Gini coefficient, a statistical measure of resource distribution, including... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

kind works against it and even makes tradeoffs between economic and social goals inevitable. Traditional Roles New Roles Philanthropists Donate to charitable causes Partner... View Details

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

course will analyze the successes and setbacks of protagonists in each case, nearly half of whom will be present in class to discuss their views and, in some class sessions, to solicit student feedback about their ongoing execution... View Details

01 Oct 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

Keywords: by Paul Novosad & Eric Werker

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

advancing her enterprise's goals and objectives through a faster and ever-larger-reaching set of media. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
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Army Crew Team, The

By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey T. Polzer

The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first boat in races,... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance; New York (state, US)

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