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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and advocating for women. Lang entered the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

privately held Landmark, but he remains head of the Landmark Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the business that has helped many charitable and educational organizations. Over the years, his contributions to his community have been... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring. 2021 Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Academy of Management Journal Impact Award for “The Power in Demography: Women's Social Constructions of Gender Identity at Work” (June 1995). Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Academy of... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

Myopia” has sold more than 850,000 reprints, making it one of the best-selling HBR articles of all time. In 1983, Levitt penned another classic with the HBR article “The Globalization of Markets.” Besides popularizing the word “globalization,” he asserted that new... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

IT’S AMAZING HOW CLOSE-KNIT IT IS.” HOME REGION Austin, TX UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Texas, Finance, 2010 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Turnkey Vacation Rentals, Snap Kitchen, HomeAway, American Express, Dell View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

vaccination are much greater than those for high technology products. Delays to getting shots in arms can reduce the odds of reaching global herd immunity, reinforce safety and health concerns across countries, and slow down the world’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

07 Nov 2012
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HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

the world of soccer nowadays looks nothing like the one he started in as a coach at United 26 years ago. Sir Alex has embraced new technologies and new approaches, hiring sports scientists on his staff, and adopting new ways of measuring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

so that alternative actions could be arrayed according to their attractiveness, expressed in quantitative terms. Recently, brain-scan technology has enabled researchers to associate choice and decision-making with various parts of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

16 Dec 2021
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African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

problems and the HBS classroom challenges me to critically think about everything I say and do. But my background has been the most significant in my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) class, where I often provide first-hand... View Details

August 2023
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Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details

Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America

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29 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

inclusion. I believe in the power of innovative and human-centered technology that can alleviate poverty by providing vulnerable populations with access to financial services including insurance, savings, or lending that can be life... View Details

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

or incentives, but a model of innovation that too often fragments efforts by treatment modality (drugs, devices, diagnostics, and clinical treatment). We may improve individual technologies of health care, but fail to provide integrated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

what has been revealed by #MeToo and also, looking back over my career and the hundreds of acts of harassment and discrimination I endured, I’m discouraged that it appears that nothing has really changed for women in the workplace.” AGE 62, WHITE, View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Although professors and guest experts will not have direct, real-time interactions with learners, you will hear from them via short videos that explain key concepts and guide you through cases, exercises, and other interactive learning elements to create a highly... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50225 Harvard Business School Case 515-701 Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) hosts performances and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. On behalf of all who benefit from the School’s work, we are grateful to the donors who believe in and help shape this institution. 1908 Harvard's Graduate School of Business... View Details

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