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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms Authors: Modupe N. Akinola, David A. Thomas Abstract Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
intense and very structured: take a concept idea and get to a real prototype for customers to interact with by the end of the day,” Sapone says. On Wednesday of that first Startup Lockdown, the group worked on a concept then called... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
taming global warming and other environmental threats. These intense juxtapositions must leave many wondering what we should be doing in the face of these perils. Just what are the next steps? I have an idea about that. My research... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
for college-educated minority voters. Putting those two findings together, it is clear that young college-educated Americans don’t just disapprove of Trump, they do so strongly and overwhelmingly. Given the intensity of feelings aroused... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
proposed by the faculty and are in line with their expertise and regional interests, but also consequential for the local partners the students are engaging with. So, the result is quick, intensive learning that is often put to practice... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
control of people’s schedules could be achieved without negative organizational consequences. So was it relatively easy to get team members on board with this? Not at all! Remember, this was totally counter to the intense work culture at... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
at the end of the intensive three-week module, one student compared the experience to running a marathon. "First we stretched, then we warmed up, and then we ran," is how Dwayne Romero (HBS '97) described his nine-and-a-half-hour days... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
and intensive retail marketing programs. Hospitals, pharmacies, and research scientists are managed as constituents; efforts are made to ensure only that they feel fairly treated in their transactions with the firm. The pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
they do, think what they think, and why they like or don't like your products. Getting that level of insight requires more intensive interactions with customers than CRM tools permit." It requires that you develop a "poetic... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
their established physical intensity targets. It will certainly not be easy, but our brands are committed and up to the challenge.” The global scope of textile emissions overall is daunting. A 2020 BBC report warned that “textile... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
embarking on the founder’s journey takes you on an intense emotional rollercoaster,” says Mulcahy. “You have to be ready and have to reflect and design your own way to deal with a constant level of pressure. These last years, with the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
several of the key issues that were discussed over the next two days. Sachs stressed that "Africa's development challenge is the world's greatest economic challenge." After touching on some of the region's persistent problems - AIDS and malaria, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
product is not just the physical product; it’s the people who work at the hotels. You started out in real estate. Did you ever think you’d be in this business? Yes, and I like the real estate intensity of what I do. We have billions of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and (ii) complete stability in the dispersion of attention across sites and in the intensity of attention within sites. We illustrate how this finding is difficult to reconcile with standard models of optimal attention allocation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
intensity of the debates and the opportunity to figure out on the fly what they think about the variety of opinions that are voiced in class. Each of the stories reliably evokes certain themes and issues. The lesson plans are designed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Agarwala and Varma, developed proprietary financial planning software, and set up an online tax filing system that quickly made iTrust a leading tax preparation service. Offline, Agarwala and Varma steered development of an intensive... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
commercial operation." "Big budget museums don't have a lot of financial leeway," adds HBS professor William J. Poorvu, treasurer and trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who has written a case about this quirky Boston treasure. Poorvu notes that the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets Authors:John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Professor of Business Administration. Those numbers add up to intense competition for prestigious, well-paid jobs, and high pressure to perform—if a position is secured. “It’s a crisis of rising expectations,” says Kirby, noting that the... View Details