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Debora L. Spar | About

structures. Spar tackles some of these issues in her latest book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny . Spar served as the President of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the View Details

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

analytical, data-driven culture as its commitment to performing innovative, contemporary dance alongside beloved ballets like The Nutcracker . “Boston Ballet is an organization heavily steeped in data,” says Hodges. “But the crucial step... View Details

16 May 2005
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Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

are deliberately using a network strategy and discovering its potential to serve more people more effectively. "I'm interested in high performance networks and understanding how those networks were created and are managed," says... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2013
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The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker & Karen L. Murrell; Health

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

was to help Taiwan build a presence in the semiconductor business. Taiwan’s government had set up an economic planning group led by Morris Chang, formerly of Texas Instruments, who conceived of and started what is now Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2017
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Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent

I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets

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01 Jun 2015
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The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

effect," Luca says. In this case, however, it took the direct intervention of government to persuade restaurants to reveal this information which hadn't been done voluntarily. According to game theory, however, that shouldn't be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

Bharti Kher. They join other sculptures that are part of a permanent collection. View the Art Faculty Promotions PROFESSORS Nien-hê Hsieh Professor, Faculty Fellow, General Management Unit Sophus Reinert Professor, Business, Government &... View Details

23 May 2013
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Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China

Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna

29 Nov 2023
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A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 Jun 2018
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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

contains men with a wide variety of attitudes and capabilities. Some lost their jobs for what they did; others lost their jobs for what they didn’t do. What’s to be done with senior executives such as these? It’s the duty of boards reviewing their CVs to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Aug 2015
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New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

Delicate Balance For nearly 80 years, the FDA has performed a delicate balancing act between getting life-saving drugs to market, and ensuring that those drugs will be safe when taken by patients. In order to serve that dual function, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

18 Dec 2019
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6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

17 Dec 2007
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The Rise of Medical Tourism

the U.S. medical profession are still large. In India, the same depth of pool of engineering and mathematical talent for software, offshoring, and outsourcing is there for medicine, too. In the 1950s and '60s, the Indian government... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

region. After all, while it might have a Silicon Valley–like valuation and aggressive expansion plan, the organization can’t simply hire more software engineers in order to grow. And unlike the NBA’s efforts to operate in China, where it had to deal with only one View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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HBS - The year in Review

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Thomas Graeber Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Jillian Jordan Negotiation, Organizations & Markets James Riley Organizational Behavior Maria Roche Strategy Marlous van Waijenburg Business, View Details

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