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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

progress, significant progress, or completed. Quantifying the commitments in this way made them more tangible and helped us to see where there was meaningful progress and where we had fallen off. Work dealing with culture and community... View Details

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

teacher. Of course, that was a path for me where I really found who I was at my core. And I want to share that with others and allow them to discover who they are. And then, of course, the eating disorder recovery coaching practice has been really a channel for me to... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

purpose can serve as a radically new operating system for the enterprise, enhancing performance while also delivering meaningful benefits to society. It’s the kind of inspired thinking that businesses—and the rest of us—urgently need.... View Details

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

had bonds with. I struggled to grasp the significance of that moment, in which two of the people I cared most about shared what their rishte meant to them. Over time, I realized that the word translates to “relationships.” My relationships define me and are at the... View Details

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

have to convince 10 other people before I can do it. Steven Torok, Class of 1977. First meaningful job was actually before business school, out of college, waiting to go to business school. I had taken a degree from a liberal arts college... View Details

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

binding domestic and international legal commitments to protect workers' rights and that have high levels of press freedom and nongovernmental organization activity. Taken together, these findings suggest the importance of multiple, robust, overlapping, and reinforcing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

ways the "big data" he is collecting is being used—and whether some uses promised more meaningful (or less potentially misleading) impact than others. After briefly introducing IGS, Fukuhara, and GROW, the case outlines exactly how GROW... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

stock performance of these offerings. RLBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole, with economically and statistically meaningful positive returns. There is no evidence of a deterioration of returns... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

understanding of how to develop meaningful experiences for recent high school graduates. Realizing that the global pandemic would be an issue for members of the class of 2020, she launched Global Citizen Academy, a leadership experience... View Details

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

for bearing illiquidity, and that a diversified blend of asset classes and strategies provides meaningful protection against capital losses under virtually all market conditions. Despite this questioning, the investment professionals at... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

studies examining how the perceived spontaneity of thought influences the extent to which it is believed to yield meaningful self-insight and influences judgment. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new (for health care) approach that can accurately measure the costs incurred over the care cycle for a patient's condition.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

movies, and there's something meaningful about them. And end of the day when you grow up, you'll remember The Lego Movie and hopefully it will be some kid's favorite movie when they were growing up just like Indiana Jones is my favorite... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that myopia has a meaningful impact on choice in the field and that people may learn about their myopia with experience and, as a result, gain... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

has led to greater focus and the ability to construct meaningful performance objectives and standards across the agency. Roca has been using performance-tracking and client profile data to ensure optimal service delivery and optimal... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

and staying engaged in some way are intrinsic to sustaining both confidence and opportunities. Serving on meaningful nonprofit boards that deal with serious business issues is one good route. Part-time projects and consulting is another.... View Details

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a third could be classified in a mainly public/diplomatic/not-for-profit category, and a third would involve a mixture of private, public and/or not-for-profit parties that played meaningful roles. Course Content and Organization... View Details

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