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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Check Printers, 1977–1985 M. Kenneth Oshman Rolm Corporation, 1969–1984 Harrison G. Otis Los Angeles Times, 1886–1917 Anthony Overton Hygienic Manufacturing Company, 1898–1946 Michael Ovitz Creative Artists Agency, 1974–1995 P David Packard Hewlett-Packard Company,... View Details

• 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on industry emergence and... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for New England, shares his journey from environmental science to state and federal leadership roles. He highlights how the clean energy transition in the United States is being driven by public policy, View Details

• 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

2003). Blue-collar workers, in contrast, increasingly work outside the archetypal work gang and operate machinery or computers in isolation from others. As manual labor evolves to require more interaction with machines and less coordination and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 20 Sep 2011
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lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial relationship between the federal... View Details

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• 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin C.Rosenthal Publication:In Slavery's... View Details

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• 03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

first macro-nutrient in your happiness, which we talk about in the book because it's so important. By the way, she defined the scientific definition of happiness just now. Enjoyment plus satisfaction plus meaning or purpose. And and if... View Details

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The Imposter Among Us

phenomenon in a 1978 scientific journal article, in which they described the specific and unfounded fear of being discovered as a fraud. Their research focused on professional women who were successful by every external standard in their... View Details

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translating scientific breakthroughs to directly impact people. 2. Founding Harvard OpenBio, our student-run biomakerspace, helped me appreciate how VC/industry can enable scientific discovery and foster... View Details

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Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

Earlier this year, I had the incredible opportunity to further cultivate my intersecting interests during a transformative internship at Eli Lilly. It wasn't just a summer of tasks and projects—it was an experience that tied together my lifelong curiosity, my View Details

• 01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

negotiations, in organizations, and in markets). We explore these interactions through diverse approaches: Although many of us have training in economics, we also have members with backgrounds in social psychology, sociology, and law. NOM seeks to apply rigorous View Details

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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

consumers opt in, their anonymized genetic data can be used in scientific research. But most users are focused on the genealogical results, which Ancestry plots with ever-increasing specificity on an interactive online world map. Users... View Details

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