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Economic Development in Rural Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Rural economic development should focus on the unique strengths of each area, rather than concentrating on ameliorating generic weaknesses The appropriate economic unit for strategy purposes must include not only rural areas but also View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
carved out a product manager or adjacent role for me to step into. I ended up joining Starlink at SpaceX, where I had a terrific summer working on the Growth team in LA - and even overlapped with alum and now SpaceX employee Kate Sweeney...
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MBA Class of 1959 Chapel | About
ceremonies, and concerts, the chapel is easily identified by its cylindrical, copper-clad, main building and adjacent glass pyramid. Visitors pass through an enclosed water garden before entering a simply furnished main sanctuary, which...
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- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
agents at adjacent firms, competitive outside options abounded,” the study notes. The exit begins Once pay reductions were announced, “highly productive” workers, or those who took in 20 to 25 percent more revenue per call than average,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
most obvious through the ventilation shaft, was quickly rendered impossible. The second strategy, drilling a new mine ramp, also soon proved impossible as the instability of the rock was discovered. The third, tunneling from an adjacent...
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About
companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,...
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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
table for you? Maybe you spent the last decade in e-commerce and you’d like to try an adjacent area like marketing technology or retail? What type of people do you prefer to not work with? For example, extroverts or introverts,...
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by Julia Austin
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical...
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by Rachel Layne
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two...
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Business Education;
Business History;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
of Hampton, the adjacent city, and we filmed a PSA for Habitat for Humanity. We're going to do a blitz and repair a lot of houses in our downtown community. And then I had a call with the head of human resources. We're going through a lot...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
greater overall lifetime value for Surround, aligned with Terry’s other objective. Partnerships can also shine a light on adjacent areas that might have product market fit with a few additional tweaks to the product, thereby driving...
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- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to...
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Re: James L. Heskett
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Hawes Hall | About
Hawes Hall Rodney (MBA 1969) & Beverly Hawes Hawes Hall is named in honor of, and made possible through support from Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes Jr. (MBA 1969). Dedicated in 2002 and located adjacent to Aldrich Hall, Hawes Hall was built...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
nearly $1 billion in sales says that Cure is mining a big TAM (total addressable market) and has room to grow there. Cure can focus marketing messages on hydration while adding some adjacency products. Many firms do that without brand...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
repairs, replaces, and improves their property. Ensuring their data has sufficient unique IP in its granularity is key! The team needs to think about what would prevent adjacent competitors like Angi and Thumbtack from using their...
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
types of companies might be adjacent to that and would benefit from your expertise. Identify the kind of company you want to work with—large, small, public, privately held, early stage, mature, and so on. Think about what matters most to...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
adjacent 36-acre Enterprise Research Campus are advancing at a brisk pace. Dupré expects the University’s Allston investment will have a ripple effect. “We hope that it underscores and magnifies all of the amazing things that are...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
layout to place interdependent groups in adjacent space to encourage trustful bonding. Individuals can be assigned the full-time job of maintaining balanced relationships within and between groups. Of course, these same structural devices...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
38,000 square feet were added to the 130,000-square-foot building. With 67 faculty offices in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, all HBS professors are now housed in three adjacent buildings—Baker | Bloomberg, Rock Center, and Morgan...
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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA
place in and adjacent to the flat floor classrooms in Batten Hall (the Hives) and the Chao Center. If alcohol is being served, food must also be served. Events with alcohol are limited to four (4) hours in duration. Restaurant Associates...
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