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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
work may appear abstract, it is filled with many references to Jamaica and also to Trinidad, where he was an artist-in-residence in 2002. In Margaritas , the maroon lines represent a type of security grille used frequently on homes and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
creative capitalism,” said Gates. “But it’s not just about dollars. It really is about the innovation power” that American businesses could unleash by allowing their most creative and innovative people to spend 5 percent of their time working to solve View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
counterculture was spawned in the late 1950s. “He was definitely part of a social revolution that loosened things up,” says Parker G. Montgomery, founder and chief executive of Cooper Laboratories Limited now CooperVision, a successful... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont’s contemporaries to assess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues Moss, social scientists can make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
identity-holders away from options they would have preferred in the absence of that appeal. Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact By: Shell, Michelle A., and Ryan W. Buell Abstract— It is a well-established result in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
she says. For a company the size of McDonald’s, it posed a massive operational challenge. Hurdles included everything from structure—McDonald’s kitchens were designed to operate in two separate “day parts,” breakfast and everything else—to View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
factors that impact the business landscape (geopolitical forces, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, labor policies, social mores, and government intervention). In studying the context in which business leadership emerged, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
program is helping a farmer with 2 hectares secure financing to expand to 14—enough to earn him $10,000 a year. "It's been wonderful to see," Masha says. As Nigeria struggles to crack the problem of feeding itself, boosting production is... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online from another language to English, please allow the Accommodations team an additional 5 business days to complete the translation process before the Accommodations team can review the accommodations request. Please also remove any View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
they tend to be thematically the ways that really stand out in each of those periods. And then there's another set of innovations that are social and cultural in nature. They don't necessarily conform to the dominant narrative. Quite... View Details