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My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details

April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
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Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar

Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Culture; Transformation; Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Talent; Leading Change; Human Resources; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates

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March 24, 2014
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Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran

By: James K. Sebenius

While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an... View Details

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21 Sep 2020
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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

problem? That’s exactly what Thomke is hoping more business leaders will do: look inward and carefully reexamine whether their everyday work habits are boosting progress or impeding it. They should start by asking themselves a few key... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2011
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Reinventing the National Geographic Society

quite rapidly over the last year. Fourth, this is a world-class brand. And finally, as Fahey said himself, he's not sure they are the ones who are going to figure out what the right digital combination is, but surely because of their View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

29 Jul 2022
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Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Academy, on Job-Hopping Toward Equity, published recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review. A changing labor landscape The difference in pay that comes from job-hopping only helps to shrink—not eliminate—a longstanding gender pay gap, but any View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Mar 2017
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An Average Day at HBS

search, but this takes up a lot of time on weekdays. Early on this takes the form of Career and Professional Development events, company presentations, and networking phone calls/meetings with alumni and/or current students. As you View Details

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down further as you progress in your search. Company List: Database Strengths/Unique Features Infogroup US Historical Business Data Annual, geo-coded records of United States businesses and other organizations from 1997-2021.... View Details

16 Oct 2017
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The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. In studying 100 founders of Indian software companies, they found that those who exert more hands-on management—keeping close tabs on workers with regular evaluations, setting expectations, creating shared milestones, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2019
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Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

anti-corporate national mood, especially among progressive Democrats in bluer-than-blue New York, that came to a head in the 2018 elections. Beware of opponents with diverse concerns joining forces to form a “blocking coalition.” With her... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Benjamin Tanner Johnson, MBA 1921 Benjamin Tanner Johnson was a tireless champion for African American owned banks and eventually helped found the New England People's Finance Company (an African American bank and lender). He also worked as a Connecticut state... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth

the rager happening around us,” she jokes. The slowdown in deal flow is felt by everyone now. “Almost all of our companies have needed more runway,” Rupp says. “Partly that’s because they haven’t had the progress they need to because of... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index CEO Leadership CEO Leadership What is the role of an effective... View Details

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

years, feedback givers urged her to “tone it down” or “slow it down.” As she read through such reports, she decided she could make fast progress if she wrote her own review prior to reading formal ones. After a big project or an important... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Esteves Hall | About

Esteves said. “Harvard Business School is the global leader in educating people who make a difference in the world. The men and women who graduate from its Executive Education programs have a long-lasting impact on the progress of their... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

materials will I have access to after completing Business Strategy? + – You will have access to the materials in every prior module as you progress through the program. Access to course materials and the course platform ends 60 days after... View Details

10 Dec 2014
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Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

people are sympathetic to the logic behind progressive taxes and, simultaneously, the logic behind flatter taxes. The policies we see, whether tax rates or the minimum wage, reflect the public's efforts to find the right balance between... View Details

Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

simultaneously create psychological safety and drive motivation, you can get people into the learning zone, which also happens to be the high-performance zone. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AND INCLUSION? Many companies are making good View Details

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A Commitment to Sustainability | About

beekeepers tend to one of the honeybee hives on campus. Tata Hall is one of several, high performance, LEED certified buildings on campus. Daikon radishes and other produce are harvested from one of the many green roofs on campus. Sustainability Impact HBS has made... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

responsibilities, such as assessing value and performance, budgeting, and communicating the financial implications of your decisions. The program expertly leads you through progressively more complex theories and analysis with a pace that... View Details

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