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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that View Details
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- Portrait Project
Suzanne Willis
out to my family and friends. After braving those nerve-wracking conversations, I felt more confident owning other parts of my identity. Going forward, I will continuously work to be the most genuine me. Someone who loves outdoor adventures, View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
Oteh's bold decisions have cleaned up the Nigerian capital markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country's stock market... View Details
- 15 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Coming Out Calculus: A Reflection in Honor of National Coming Out Day
“Be my gay best friend!”-objectifying statements. Both are annoying. Next—is there a limit to how gay I can be? In many situations, there is a Threshold of Tolerable Gay. For example: in the workplace, a gay man who acts like “one of the... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock market has almost tripled in size. A vibrant domestic fixed-income... View Details
- Web
Statement from Dean Srikant Datar on Anti-Semitism | About
peacefully and productively. Everyone deserves the same opportunity my parents found here. As the words of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remind us, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” None of us should tolerate... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Frankel
their heritage. That goes hand in hand with tolerance and respect for others. I aspire to being remembered as dependable. I want to love my wife, Tracey, and my family with every last fiber in my being. I think the love we leave behind is... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
a new working paper. “We find that routine customers have higher value to the organization, even after controlling for their level of consumption,” Ascarza says. These customers may also tolerate price increases better and even stay loyal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
Class Day 2008 was, in a word, wet. Umbrellas and clear plastic ponchos kept students, families, and friends assembled June 4 on Baker Lawn tolerably dry. Even drier were the 300 or so onlookers who opted to watch the proceedings live on... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
- Profile
John Oxtoby
presidential run), the movie is scheduled for release in Fall 2013. “It tells the civil-rights story through the perspectives of two different generations,” John explains, “the butler’s son who takes a more radical approach, and the butler himself, who holds a job with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
The causes for unequal treatment, White tells us, range from outright racism to something more insidious: the unrecognized biases of otherwise broad-minded, highly educated doctors who believe at some unconscious level, for example, that African American men are more... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
would be replaced. But instead we kept those programs, and to exploit improved technology, we added new ones. So the problem of date handling was never addressed. Now we know that an imperfection we're willing to tolerate today could... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but it has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium... View Details
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
example, we just launched a four-year partnership with West Virginia University, making it the first D1 school to offer financial education coursework for every student-athlete. Our goal is to launch more of these across the country. “I will say that I don’t have any... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
capabilities, developing a reputation within GM for completing high-quality design and analysis projects for other Technical Centers at a substantially lower cost. In areas such as tolerance stacking analysis, GMTCI-Powertrain was now the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Taylor Wiegele
"big deal" for Taylor. At HBS, Taylor is more than welcomed, he is embraced. "I'm gay, and it's a defining part of who I am," he says. "I want unbridled acceptance, not mere tolerance as an 'other,' a checkmark in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
women has to meet much higher expectations than I did." But based on her own career, Graham did offer five personal qualities that are essential for enduring leadership: strong personal values; self-confidence; courage and tolerance in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model, which tolerates moral complexity, may be one of the few that can adapt and endure. Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
in an inner-city factory with union labor. As Stuntz quickly learned, entrepreneurs need a high tolerance for rejection. Prospecting for investors yielded only disappointment. “We finally decided to self-fund,” he recalls. Greentech... View Details