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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
examination. This book combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision-making to give voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
hard selling—and a great way to do that is to spend a little brand equity on playfulness to spark conversations. The Rules Of Play Marketing—in the form of the mish-mosh of online posting, uploading, commenting, and sharing on YouTube,... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Lessons from the Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Albert J. Dobron, Jr. by Marguerite Rigoglioso "Been there; done that." That's what first came to Al Dobron's mind when he thought about getting involved in student government at HBS. But by his second semester, the former student leader... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
to the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration.) Despite contrary indicators such as a 1954 cartoon "On Having a Wife in Business" that listed this situation's pros ("Wife has trouble finding time to spend money") and cons... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
Increasingly, we are also seeing the expansion of the purview of business to issues that typically fall to government and policymakers as a way to improve outcomes for society and the planet overall. For example, let us suppose that a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
the beneficial effect of cost transparency holds when firms spend more on "less desirable" costs relative to "more desirable" costs. Studies 5-6 show that the effect of cost transparency weakens when high profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. He lays out areas of inquiry, including questions such as (1) Do I clearly articulate my vision and top priorities?; (2) Does... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Advantage Books Thomas Modly had an eclectic career in the military, academia, business, and government when he answered the call to service in 2017 and returned to the Navy, where his career began. As Acting Secretary of the Navy, he... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
have expected an American to have to be going through. And part of it had to do with drugs. Part of it had to do with not having enough money. But even just the spending decisions that they made when they had a little bit of money—it just... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase in military View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies enter the digital health... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
chapter on consumption, for example, is by the late columnist William Safire, who wrote about how he came to own 38 shirts. His column is grouped with a reader's response and a set of stories about developments in the retail environment. Safire's article shines a light... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
place was capable. With every job I took, I figured out who could take over for me before I even started. Succession planning was an absolute.” Swan left Nickelodeon three years after giving birth; now the mother of two daughters, she is an independent management... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be complicated as the company moved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
likelihood of implementation, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to play a key role. In particular, the likelihood of implementation is increasing in the percentage of votes cast in favor of the proposal and in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace