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01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

yoga class in her life - soon found herself fully ensconced in an office in Kripalu's main building, a large but unadorned former seminary overlooking the hills of scenic western Massachusetts. To help... View Details

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

investing, and I wanted to explore those from an academic perspective,” Owusu-Kesse recalls. Looking back at his three years in graduate school, he notes, “Surprisingly, one of the business courses that helps me View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

empowerment, engagement, and innovation are subordinated to control aspects. No wonder people aren't engaged and having fun! Finally, we have lost sight of the importance of first-line employees—the people actually doing View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Summer 2008
Editorial

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details

Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain

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04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

female, women make up only 38 percent of middle management jobs, 22 percent of C-suite seats, and a grim 5 percent of CEO positions, according to 2019 data from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Jun 2021
News

On the Road Less Traveled

the scenes that really stuck with me was in 1942. Your father joins the Merchant Marines and then he's immediately called into service, because we're in the View Details

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

levels of the faculty and throughout instructors' careers. The Center's offerings and initiatives fall into four main areas: Faculty COACHING Services include class... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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On the Outside at HBS

third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not... View Details

2014
Working Paper

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

By: Asli M. Coplan and Geoffrey Jones

This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This enterprise was an important actor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Turkey; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; History; Government and Politics; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Electronics Industry; Middle East; Europe

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11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

at HBS. Before we kick off the ABCs, let us introduce ourselves. We are HBS CPD – Harvard Business School Career & Professional Development. A – Aldrich. Aldrich Hall is one of our main academic buildings where most MBA View Details

25 May 2010
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Commencement and the Winds of Change

To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

01 Sep 2010
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An Encore for the MBA Oath

300 members of the Class of 2010 who gathered in Burden Auditorium on Class Day for a pledge ceremony. The students were joined by several... View Details

Keywords: MBA Oath

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

disease requiring hospitalization. Olatec is developing a new class of drugs, known as NLRP3 inhibitors, that target the “causal factor” of the immune system’s cytokine-driven... View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

Committee. “You are only a student at HBS for a couple of years, but you are an alum for the rest of your life,” Brooks says. “Our class was very special; we were there together when 9/11 happened and we... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

brought new life into the world during their time here. Find out how they juggled class time, cases, social lives, and motherhood through each of their amazing stories. Ally Wagner (MBA 2019) Pregnant RC |... View Details

10 Aug 2017
News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

happy. So have you thought about that? Pasricha: You know? At the end of our classes in RC year-- I think most people will be the same-- our professors closed View Details

01 Aug 2017
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Redefining the Term Networking at HBS

many reasons: particularly leaving my active duty Marine husband behind in San Diego and being in a group of 900 people. The anxiety turned out to be unwarranted. I more than survived the night, I enjoyed... View Details

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

international business trends until more of its governments set the stage for a fairly competitive environment. "There is a need to create a new class of politicians," Gomes said. Africa needs... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release”... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

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