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Events - Business History
11 Jun 2025 Virtual Seminar Paloma Fernández Pérez (University of Barcelona), "Global Business and Local Welfare: the Transfer of Radium from Multinationals to Hospitals for the Poor in Barcelona in the 1920s" 12 pm to 1:30 pm Past Events... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
until another collapse, funds of funds will be considered suitable investments. The bank is an intermediary between the investor and the hedge fund. The bank pretends to place a cordon of safety, of conservative investing, around its investors' funds, but in reality it... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in 1862 to fund the Civil War, it... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Grushka-Cockayne says. “It’s still a numbers game. It’s a challenging thing to convey, so practicing with good visualizations and conveying the visualizations is something we think is key.” In practice at Heathrow Grushka-Cockayne has another paper out, Forecasting... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
regulations on buybacks as some propose, I’m in favor of boards being much more active in evaluating buybacks, limiting accelerated share buybacks, and changing the accounting treatment of buybacks so that managers are not tempted by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global
consent if the Center requests such consent from time to time for particular processing activities. The Center does not share personal data of alumni with third parties except as may be required by applicable law. In accordance with... View Details
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
attracted lots of questions from colleagues and friends, which pushed them to structure an approach to answering those questions, and their podcast was born. “Medicine is all-consuming. To be a good doctor you need to spend all of your time doing that,” View Details
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
president of Ava Labs, a Web3 company that helps traditional businesses use crypto-based innovations in their products. When he was a student at HBS, Wu couldn’t have imagined such a business. Ava Labs built the blockchain network, Avalanche, to streamline the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
to transfer to a team that works under a different manager or has a different set of colleagues. You could look for assignments that you find more intrinsically interesting. You might ultimately think about changing organizations, if you... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Data Storage - Research Computing Services
needs may exceed the amount available. The storage location at /export/scratch is designed specifically for this purpose. Note: This is a shared area, so use Unix file permissions to change the accessibility if needed. Files older than 60... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
future of work, and especially good-paying jobs, will require a combination of foundational, transferable soft skills and job-specific technical skills. However, we found that only 9 percent of organizations in the dataset prioritize both... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services
number of people involved in the work. If you opt to work in a shared folder , you can request one using this form . Transfer data onto the cluster, keeping in mind its data security level . If you'd like to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
Nelson's successful and smooth transfer of his CEO role at age 58 to his very capable nephew, Eduardo Melzer, 40. Nelson remains chairman of the board with clear responsibilities. RBS is stable and poised for more great performance. My... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers. Workspaces have View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal and ethical means, and Yale’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
performance in their exchange ties (Gulati and Sytch, 2007) and acquisitions (Zaheer et al., 2010); revenues (Baum et al., 2000; Shipilov and Li, 2008); market share (Zaheer and Bell, 2005) and market entry (Jensen, 2008); IPO success... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
that institution. Will I need to purchase any additional materials? Your program fee covers all course materials. All of the materials for our self-paced programs on the course platform are accessed on the course platform. Preparatory materials for our real-time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details