Grounded Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

don't share the same perspectives on everything, but we found a lot of common ground through listening and sharing a common goal of making things better for the next generation." What are your full-times jobs? Reggie: "I work as a View Details

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

extensively about Native Americans and is one of the "good guys," Keen says. In the past, academics would sometimes claim to be more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time in using his View Details

15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts

US Navy, works as an application research engineer, and then attends Harvard Business School, where he finds that the financial industry is his true calling. So begins his rapid ascent in the corporate world, which includes senior... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

the company has been on ground zero since day one. Founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969), and chaired by Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003), FIBA has so far allocated $18 million for immediate and long-term relief efforts. "FIBA Group and the Özyeğin... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

champion of Asian studies since that first visit to China, noted in his welcoming remarks that HBS opened its Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong in 1999, creating a launching pad for case writing and View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

"I wanted to be closer to the work the Enterprise Fund was doing on the ground and to see what else I could do in Egypt—and that was too difficult to judge from the United States." In September 2018, she returned to Cairo. [music] Enan... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

that means for both hiring organizations and job-seekers. The conversation, titled "How to Hire Your Next Job," was based on Bernstein's ongoing research for an upcoming book on the topic, and took place in a classroom at Toronto's Juno... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

glorious failure. I figured we would either turn it into a national chain or drive it into the ground trying,” he reflects. “In reality, the most likely scenario is the one that played out. “The original business plan vision of Finale... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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Books

research and stressed in this book is the consistency with which real change is generated by engaging people's emotions, not their intellect, to alter behavior. Emotions such as fear and anger typically present obstacles to change, and... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

a 2016 completion date. That project broke ground in April, just four months after the doors opened on Tata Hall [2], its neighbor to the east. To the north, along a sidewalk bordered by green-draped construction fencing, Baker Hall is... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

or even beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Cent’Anni: The Sinatra Legend at 100 by Richard Muti (MBA 1971) (North Jersey Media Group) This study of the most fascinating entertainer of the 20th century isn’t an academic tome, although it is extensively View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

Another grassroots initiative, the 91101 Group, was organized by Daniel F. Curran (MBA '00), a research associate at HBS, along with colleagues and classmates from HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. The group set up a Web site that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

ways," he elaborates. "The corporate support came along much later." Wallace, an Alabama native, enjoyed highly successful stints at Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and the Georgia Research Alliance, a business/government council, before signing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

during Nohria’s summertime conversations. In his view, HBS should “chase knowledge, not demand.” The School’s strategy for more than a decade has been to establish a small physical footprint with six global research centers, but together... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

an hour south of Watford City. A Pool Past Its Peak? Barbara George (MBA 1980) Williston farmer Steve Jensen surveys the cleanup process after more than 20,000 barrels of oil leaked on his land. “The research by the Post Carbon Institute... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

time she’s been doing research in this area—and what has remained the same. Lynn Paine: Probably the most obvious thing that has changed is the attitudes toward women and towards diversity in general. You know, back when Tosh joined her... View Details

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

The Prosperity Project, a nonprofit established during the pandemic to specifically work to stem the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on women, aims to provide Canadian women with advocacy, mentoring, and resources, while also conducting View Details