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- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
(and omitted) race as a key factor. We ask a critical question within this review: what do we know about the intersection of mentoring and race in organizations? Finally, we explore some of the unfinished business concerning race and mentoring and present a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
Student Union. Social Events Of course, a large part of the HBS experience is meeting new people and making lifelong friends. Whether it’s small group dinners or happy hours, the WSA regularly hosts events to bring our community of women... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Author's Note: Why Leaders Lose Their Way, my article in the June 6, 2011, edition of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, generated a large number of very thoughtful and profound comments. The following article proposes an antidote... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible policy process for Liberia. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
One Harvard: The Power of Collaboration For years, centuries even, Harvard has been an institution made up of distinct (and distinctive) schools conducting research and educating students largely independent of one another. As society... View Details
- Web
Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course was very manageable on top of a full-time job." Abby Katz Senior Marketing Manager at Mavrck Effectively lead... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
director of Goldman Sachs’ Principal Investment Area, based in London. “People are waking up,” he said. “The number of large deals done in Europe has increased steadily. Capital is going to opportunities that exist uniquely in Europe —... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names. "The larger an organization becomes, the tougher one View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world markets. Levitt's key insight... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Minguela must navigate. Minguela must also decide whether her long-term goal of an incubator-like platform for Spain is really feasible. The case describes how her vision differs from Rocket Internet-a large German incubator that also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
which featured a number of HBS professors and alumni practitioners as panelists and speakers, drew a large and enthusiastic group of attendees. After welcoming remarks by the conference chair, RDA Healthcare Consulting president Robert... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
as Lyft, Postmates, Upwork, TaskRabbit, and scores of others like them—connect large numbers of independent contractors providing services with customers seeking those services. The companies profit by taking a cut of the revenue for... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
interns hosted at a large corporate partner and 2) drafting a case study that documents the ripple effects of Year Up’s program within large companies. The second project is particularly exciting as it... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
of a company that's making a difference to a small nation. PAMU means to farm in Te Reo, which is the indigenous language of New Zealand, of the Maori people. One of the key concepts that Maori have regarding what they own and what they... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace