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1984
Book

Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program

By: Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence and D. Q. Mills

Keywords: Management; Assets; Higher Education; Programs

November 1982
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique

By: T. M. Amabile

States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception; Theory

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November 1979 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Davis Graduate School

Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Education Industry

January 1978 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Budget Crisis of the Boston School System, Teaching Note

Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry

October 1977 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Mayfair School System, Teaching Note

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

November 1976 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Budget Crisis of the Boston School Committee

Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry; Boston

March 1976 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Somerstown Public Schools (A), Teaching Note

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

September 1975 (Revised May 1993)
Exercise

Mayfair School System

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

01 Aug 1966
Conference Presentation

The Organization Child: Experience Management in a Nursery School

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Management; Early Childhood Education

21 Mar 2013
Other Presentation

Building a Competitive Nigeria: The Role of the National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Nigeria

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Building a Corporate Culture of Health

By: Robert S. Huckman

This stream of Professor Huckman's work involves developing and implementing a survey of U.S. corporations regarding their commitments to developing a “culture of health” aimed at improving well-being for employees, consumers, communities, and the environment. This... View Details

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Business Leaders and the Social Sector

By: James E. Austin

This research involed a multifaceted, multi-year study of corporate and business leader involvement in the social sector. This examined: the extent and nature of, and motivation for, Harvard Business School graduates' involvement with nonprofit and social-sector ... View Details

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Clusters and Competition

By: Michael E. Porter

Porter is conducting ongoing research on the theory of clusters, or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field. This work includes further development of cluster theory and its implications for management and public... View Details

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Commentary on 'Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching at Harvard Business School' by Teresa da Silva Lopes

By: Louis T. Wells

The Comments follow the evolution of International Business (IB) at Harvard Business School (HBS) after the IB Area was disbanded in 1973. Several IB faculty were relocated to a course on the economic and political environment of business. HBS dropped its doctoral... View Details