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HBS - Key Metrics

Staff headcount includes employees classified as administrative & professional (exempt); research associates; internal post docs; service & trade hourly employed by Harvard Business School (HBS); and support... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services Research Staff Services 1ms As part of the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD), Research Staff Services (RSS) provides research support personnel View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Isdell) have pointed out, business has not been very active in trying to counter the antiglobalizers. In terms of public discourse and action, in particular, I'd recommend the following steps View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Our Team - Impact Investments

with an emphasis on agricultural and financial management. Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management Josh Lerner is the Head of the Entrepreneurial... View Details

04 Nov 2015
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Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Skydeck - Alumni

bitter, decades-long conflict between loggers, environmentalists, government officials, and First Nations Mental Illness and the Workplace Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) on how her own experience with bipolar... View Details

17 Sep 2012
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Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

Autumn has sprung, and the cold, dreary days of winter are around the corner. But take heart, wistful sun lovers. It turns out that lousy weather is actually good for business operations. A new research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Events - Health Care

and actively put together by BioLabs, LabCentral, MassVentures and The Engine, in partnership with all the major organizations that are involved in starting View Details

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

of its three companies; the family is making a real attempt to become more supportive and cooperative. The improved governance system was at the heart of both gains. Good governance contributes three... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

heavyweights like IBM, Intel, and Google—is ultimately aiming for at least a million qubits. “Imagine if you needed hundreds of thousands or even millions of coaxial cables to View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Mar 2021
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How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

for each county in the 48 mainland states. The index considered the pervasiveness of Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan activity between 1915 and 1940, View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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FAQs - Doctoral

and refurbishing activities across campus during the summer, very limited cooking facilities are available. The Program is limited to the facilities of assigned Harvard College House as well as a dining... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

(emphasizing how the organization operates). Our findings reveal that sequencing these types of frames is essential. By using outcome frames to address immediate concerns and shifting to process frames to resolve longer-term tensions,... View Details

25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

over the past decade as one of the most active areas of research in economics and strategy. The literature has constantly struggled, however, with a lack of agreement on a proper definition; View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

offer opportunities for learning they would have to entail enough variety of content to generate novel or problematic situations that trigger the itch of curiosity. It is this itch in the incumbent's mind that View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

08 Aug 2005
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A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

unit times spent on these resources by specific activities for products, services, and customers. For example, if a customer View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS OnBoard To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards The OnBoard program was created to develop alumni leadership skills critical for modern governance.... View Details

15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North Groups—small groups... View Details