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- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
assignment frictions, which appear to be more severe in lower-income regions. The productivity loss generated by inefficient assignment is equal to 13% of the productivity gap between high- and low-income countries in our sample. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2023
- News
The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason
to the CFO office at Citi. In the interview, Mason talks about growing up in Queens, in a family full of business-minded people, but wanting to be a doctor when he was a child. Even from a young age there were signs that he had a knack... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Nohria’s Next Move
In a message to the HBS community this week, former Dean Nitin Nohria shared his next chapter. “I am pursuing a new adventure as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital, a firm that invests in and builds technology-enabled companies.” Thrive is managed View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
recalled, "The general provides the two things that a young scientific organization most needs–enthusiasm and appreciation. Like all the others, I started out with a hatful of ideas and a lot of long-range plans. In a couple of years, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the company's Boston office and take a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
important contribution to improving the practice of management. Michael L. Tushman : Honored with the 2010 INFORMS Distinguished Lecture in Technology Management. 2009 Julie Battilana : Selected by the French-American Foundation as one of... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
chance of success than at home. — John Heard reflecting on his first trip to China in 1841, from his diary, 1891 4 Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business Augustine Heard grew up in Ipswich, Massachusetts, surrounded by ships... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading cause of death among young children in developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Heralded in the 1970s as one of the most important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Simmons (E) Amy C. Edmondson and Susan ThyneHarvard Business School Supplement 610-061 This case updates the "Leading Change at Simmons" series by examining Simmons' increasing debt under the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2024 recipients of the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
what has been revealed by #MeToo and also, looking back over my career and the hundreds of acts of harassment and discrimination I endured, I’m discouraged that it appears that nothing has really changed for women in the workplace.” AGE... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
working in the House of Representatives as a congressional intern. Why did you choose to attend an HBCU? After going on an HBCU college tour, I fell in love with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The people I met made me feel like I was part... View Details