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21 Jun 2024
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What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

another, connect with employers seeking diverse talent, and drive thought leadership in key areas of business and management. Here, three current MBA students discuss their experiences as LGBTQ+ students in the PRIDE community. Henry... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

their companies before committing to VC funds. "What's more important than that is the structure of the relationships of your most valued advisors, which, in many ways, are the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jul 2013
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A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

deployed systems did not." Second, capitalism tends to be self-correcting. When the free market does fail, the market itself steps in to correct the problem. For example, when investors lack information to properly determine the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

decade, piecing together what he called "the story"—the history of business. He accumulated vast amounts of data on hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

By: Michael Beer

Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

Capacity of the... View Details

March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
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CEO Activism (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Aaron K. Chatterji and Julia Kelley

This case introduces CEO activism, a phenomenon in which business leaders engage in political or social issues that do not relate directly to their companies. The case uses several examples to describe why business leaders are engaging in CEO activism and the potential... View Details

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Continuing Education - Business & Environment

created by climate change. Sustainable Business Strategy Online Become a purpose-driven leader by learning how to influence key stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. Sustainable Investing Online... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

the new facility will be named the Spangler Center, Dean Kim B. Clark, speaking at the Class Day ceremony, said, "Dick and Meredith have been wonderfully generous in their support of HBS over the years. They live the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Resources - Creating Emerging Markets

conference papers, and graduate level research. Stories of Corruption CEM has started a blog series featuring personal accounts of corruption in emerging markets as a means of... View Details

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Key Stakeholders We advocate that the goal of any health care system should be to increase the value it delivers to patients. This is the underlying thesis View Details

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

Database Best Practices Delimiters 4ms Word of Caution on Delimiters The field delimiter is the character which splits data or text into separate fields. A field is a column within your database. As an... View Details

January–February 2013
Article

Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Policy; Healthcare; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Health Industry; United States

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

particular region – in regional economic performance. We exploit newly available data from the US Cluster Mapping Project to disentangle the impact of convergence at the region-industry level from... View Details

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Research Design - Impact Investments

documentation of data on the activities of impact investors and the social impact of private equity to the greater community View Details

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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the Value Chain The Goals of Social Organizations The fundamental purpose of a social enterprise is societal value creation View Details

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

her challenge and fulfillment while opening doors to new opportunities. Seeking out a challenge Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Nneka developed a passion early in life for contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families... View Details

24 Aug 2020
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How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

nearly exclusively to the office, indicating the potential for a more temporary condition. Although highly impressionistic, the survey data illuminates the scale at which workers quickly began working from home, causing a potential shift... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Apr 2012
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When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

thoughtfully and purposefully. Every founder should read it—and take the time to digest its rich data and lessons." In this excerpt from Chapter 9, Wasserman discusses the advantages and disadvantages View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked

materials before the program begins. To maximize the value of your learning experience, be sure you understand the time commitment required for your program. Here are some terms you will encounter regarding... View Details

02 Oct 2014
Working Paper Summaries

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Keywords: by Rainer Böhme, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman & Tyler Moore; Banking

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