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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
system in Germany is more cumbersome than the U.S. system. Germans are more formal in their interpersonal behavior inside corporations than Americans, which often leads to an appearance of stuffiness or stiffness. The use of titles or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
sense to travel for events, and that is perfectly fine. Instead, email students from the resume book whose interests and profiles are a match for your company. Connect those students with MBAs currently working in your company by providing their email addresses. This... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
importance of these breaks, combined with their relative rarity, drove DJ to investigate further. He partnered with Professor Matt Bloom’s Well Being at Work Initiative at the University of Notre Dame to formally study when and why... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Abstract—More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
relevant work is scattered across multiple fields. This paper presents a unified picture of mirroring in terms of theory, evidence, and exceptions. First, we formally define mirroring and argue that it is an approach to technical problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
great gadget" and improve the educational possibilities for children in impoverished environments? Tech-savvy people as well as the socially conscious have been intrigued by the idea of "one laptop per child" since it made a splash as a View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment plans, and customer service, all designed to make consumers out of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
but going without formal organizational membership also has its challenges. I am also looking forward to opening new fields on organizational gray zones. Gray zones operate at the intersection of the legal and illegal boundary. I welcome... View Details
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
exercises together, either on the same team or across the table from each other in negotiations. We tried to make sure that our development was complimentary. We did talk when not formally involved in the course or social time with other... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
and Equinox formalized its role as a founding partner. In turn, the acceleration of growth became exponential, turning a family-run fundraiser into a philanthropic juggernaut. Cycle for Survival events have now taken place around the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
policy and has put out a formal request for information to help guide that decision-making process, to which Trichakis, Bertsimas, and Farias are contributing. Their key idea is to propose a new way of thinking about the problem. So far,... View Details
- Web
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting
though, to shed light on the individuals within the organization who have been leading the work towards more diversity and inclusion before there were formal processes, programs, and policies.” These narratives offer important insight... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
Business School, the philosophy has long been to eschew formal training in time management, instead overloading students purposely to force them to learn for themselves how to prioritize and become better time managers.) Why the current... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
something new and different is worthless." Ron Kurtz noted that (customers) "are better at reacting to things and defining their 'problems' that they would like to see resolved or alleviated." Some commented on the limits of formalized... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
diversity and equity institutional champions. “There is an opportunity though, to shed light on the individuals within the organization who have been leading the work towards more diversity and inclusion before there were formal... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
provide housing and practical education for orphaned and at-risk boys. Outward Bound’s influence on the island began with when it launched its first adventure learning and character development programming in the mid-1970s. The island became View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
Administration at HBS and is also formally affiliated with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Psychology Department, Center on the Environment, and Program on Negotiation. Predictable Surprises (HBS Press) was published in 2004. You... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
From Germany to HBS
always known that I wanted to enhance it with a formal business education later on. I first met someone from Harvard Business School in my final year in college at a BCG event for new hires. After finding out that my colleague had just... View Details