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Partners - Managing the Future of Work

and labor market demand. Burning Glass’s job seeker tools power several government workforce systems and have been shown to have substantive impact on reemployment outcomes and on labor market literacy.... View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

into a cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) manufacturing suite and a GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) laboratory. In parallel, the company established its own quality system to support products from this new facility. In March of... View Details

09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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vision has resulted in many financially driven companies becoming more mission-oriented. In this changing climate, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton (DBA '73), president of Renaissance Solutions, offer a performance measurement View Details

21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture

health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

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Sean Meng | MBA

expertise, and capital that empowers our up-and-coming generation of scientists and makes impactful research accessible to all. Professional goals: In the realm of science, I would like to understand the basis of intelligence and build... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Letters to the Editor

and no one should get a tax refund if one pays no taxes. Let’s get rid of this Rube Goldberg tax system and put some sanity to work. Jim Werner (MBA 1973) Mount Airy, MD It’s All about Access I agree with Dal LaMagna 100 percent. I don’t... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

drivers of their strategy. During our visit, Mitti also underscored the need for robust verification systems to ensure environmental impact while building trust with farmers and investors. Their approach... View Details

07 Mar 2005
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Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

this way: "It is hard for me to imagine that certification by itself would have a significant impact on a CEO's ethics...The real problem is the ability of CEOs to be CEOs." John Anderson commented that "Let's not assume... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Sep 2021
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Green House

sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools... View Details

22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

David M. Upton Abstract This paper examines how a company sets out to build an operations-based advantage. In particular, we investigate the implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software services firm. By studying the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

our next cohort of Fellows, who will study the impact that models of enterprise ownership have on societal and organizational objectives. You can find the link to apply here . Applications are due by 11:59pm EST on January 19, 2025... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Liquidity Dean Jay Light began his introductory remarks by characterizing the crisis and collapse of housing prices as a test that has exposed how fragile the recently evolved U.S. financial system is. "Leverage, transparency, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

02 Jan 2001
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Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

margin. [Our book] was first and foremost an effort to influence thinking in Japan. Because Japan has such an impact on thinking, we were also very anxious to set the record straight about what actually happened there. The preface... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

measurement system will have little impact if the results are not fully discussed. Results should be monitored regularly and used to identify areas of weakness, address the plans and View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

08 Sep 2009
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The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair share. Or, we might want our tax system to reinforce social and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
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Reinventing the Industrial Giant

technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online to purchase cars. The online... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

27 Jul 2020
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HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

children. It has been a privilege to improve access to the Paycheck Protection Program, to serve the public sector so early in my career, and to impact an issue so close to my heart. Raquel Schreiber: Engaging with critical problems... View Details

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