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- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
women." Hence brands like Broga (yoga for bros) and Powerful Yogurt ("the first yogurt for men," according to its website). Brand managers also must consider the effect of expanding a historically male-centric brand to... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Leads chose to pursue transformative impact, abandoning its original core model to focus on new system-wide collaborations, a process which we call “zagging.” Combining these strategies, YU and KaBoom! have zig-zagged by alternately seeking scale and impact. YU View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
their first year in the role. I reveal the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. I hear the new managers describe how they reframed their understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Club of Sweden, in partnership with the climate action organization We Don’t Have Time, hosted its first annual Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum on October 4. The event, which featured a series of discussions with Swedish business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Harvard Square's Hidden History
Cambridge, but most of us aren’t thinking about the footsteps we’re following as we go: Anderson is the most recent incarnation of the Great Bridge, the first bridge to connect Boston and Cambridge in 1662. Colonial revolutionaries... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
knowledge inflows into the multinational subsidiary, the literature is rooted in how subsidiaries inherit knowledge from the headquarters (HQ). In this paper we take the first step to liberate the construct of “subsidiary knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Frist Faculty Commons | About
Corporation of America (HCA) with his father, Dr. Thomas Frist Sr. (AMP, 1984), in 1968. The company went public a year later, and with the younger Frist providing leadership, first as president and subsequently as chairman, president,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
transformed it into a multinational, $2 billion consumer products enterprise, part of which, Benckiser NV, went public in 1997. (The remainder of the company, including Coty Inc., is still privately held.) Harf has been active in cancer causes since his View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
can be blended up to 10% without the need to retrofit or replace the existing assets. BTG Bioliquids first fast pyrolysis facility, Empyro, was financed by the EU and Dutch development funds and some private investors. Its business case... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
your agent may not be enough. For example, top executive pay attorney Joe Bachelder once took his client aside after the first negotiating session. The board had selected his client to be its next CEO and was working out his compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Rafaella Sadun | About
to measure management practices and managerial behavior in organizations, such as the World Management Survey , the Executive Time Use Study , and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H , conducted in partnership... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
summer vacations consist of touring national parks in an RV. “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for the job itself, but for the people you are doing it with.” “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for... View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
national and looks to expand to even more US cities next year. Our founding goal was to help take university research out of the lab and help form startups around it to tackle real-world problems in sustainability. Our teams are focused... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
credits the work of the National Hurricane Center, Nate Silver, and others for helping educate the public on how to interpret probability forecasts, but more work is needed to improve visualizations. “Even if you say there’s a 10 percent... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
provides accommodations in more than 220 countries and 100,000 cities. But when it first started out in 2008, it was competing with large and trusted hotel chains, and displaying pictures of hosts may have seemed like a good way to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
color of their skin, and while these were not the first incidents of racial injustice of this kind, the Chenaults wanted to do their part to make them the last. Starting the Anti-Racism Fund As Kevin completed his View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
then to go into business means a great deal," Du Bois wrote. "It is, indeed, a step in social progress worth measuring." 3 Harvard Business School (HBS), the country's first graduate program in business administration, opened its doors in... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
not prone to attack.” He goes on to suggest that it is likely that a nation that is recovering from terrible leadership will decide to adopt a cryptocurrency instead of relying on a central banking system.” This might appeal to... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
an inventory of the most important shared software and potential vulnerabilities and is the first step to understand more about these projects so that we can create tools and standards that result in trust and transparency in software.”... View Details