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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
resources and risk within a parent company generally outweigh the possible inefficiencies created through administrative overhead or being sheltered from competition. Among the many other HBS faculty conducting international research, two... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
Although Andrew Tisch might attribute the family’s philanthropic record to nature—“Being involved in the community has always been part of the family DNA,” he says—nurture has played a role as well. Tisch’s parents and aunt and uncle set... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
emotionally appealing, and after two extensions of the line, Nanda thought it was time to design, develop, and market another item that would solve an everyday problem with lifelike charm. She wanted to create a clock that would appeal to children and their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- Career Coach
Eileen Stephan
Eileen offers over 20 years of professional experience in recruiting, career management and career coaching in both the corporate and academic worlds. Her most recent position as Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management for Citigroup followed roles as... View Details
- Career Coach
Matt Spielman
Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details
- Career Coach
Meredith Hamilton
Meredith [she/her] has served as a mentor and coach to innumerable mid-career staff as well as several CEOs in the social sector. She is committed to creating a safe space for students and alumni to explore questions of professional identity and career progression... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
the role of founders’ gender on the use of commercial activity.” Past research has looked at the decision of whether to go hybrid with a social venture. In one study, for example, Battilana and Lee discovered that having a parent who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
student means being inspired by my parents who relentlessly fought for a better life when we were homeless. It means becoming empowered with the skills and tools needed to affect systemic change. And it means proudly representing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
forcing the Cohen family to leave with only one suitcase each. His mother’s British citizenship enabled the Cohens to resettle in London. “My parents were not broken by what happened in Egypt,” he says. “They saw it as a challenge, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
donors must speak French. The Birthday Rules: Critical Conversations to Have with Your Children (Ages 6-16) by Jeff Wald (MBA 2002) with Rachel Marsh (Post Hill Press) Parents are finding the traditional challenges of raising... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
Silverthorne: What do you think are the roots of her social activism? Deshpandé: It goes back to growing up in a family where both her parents were politically active, and believed that art was an instrument for political activism. Her... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
second quarter of 2023 alone, for example, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, took action on 13.6 million pieces of terrorism-related content and 1.1 million posts on organized hate. “Content moderation is simply not a good way to counter... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-012.pdf Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment on the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations Authors:Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
Internet. But once the major tobacco brands began acquiring e-cigarette makers and displaying those products alongside their mainstay cigarettes, policymakers took particular notice. Public health advocates and parents alike worried about... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18107 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
percent down payment. Not many of our grand- parents or great-grandparents could save that much. Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Federal Housing Administration institutionalized the long-term, fixed-rate mortgage, opening the door to home... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
from publishing weekly to biweekly. Knight Ridder, the Wall Street darling that owned the Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press, is no more, having been swallowed and largely written off by a peer whose own fortunes then nose-dived. Tribune, the View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
cartoonist, Walt Disney was also drawn to the ethos of service and patriotism during World War I. In 1917, at age 16, he told his parents he would be enlisting in the Army, saying, “I don’t want my children asking me, ‘Why weren’t you in... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne