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10 Jun 2021
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In Conversation with Cédric Ducrocq, President, DIAMART

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Sam Duboc - Making A Difference

17 Dec 2020
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Eva Arias, President of Compañía Minera Poderosa, describes her experience with the Peruvian government around the highly regulated mining industry, securing permits, union involvement, and trade associations. View Details

18 Oct 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Chewy.com’s Make-or-Break Logistics Dilemma

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport; Retail

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

is a necessity; every top business school has a center focused on this field. SEI is inherently cross-sector. In the first year at HBS, 29% of students have prior experience with social enterprise coming into the program. And there are... View Details

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Michael has experience in both lecture-based and experiential education teaching methods.

He designed and teaches a 2-day professional development course at Harvard titled “Collaborative Leadership: Building the Organization of the Future” that provides... View Details

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Gender, Social Class, and Women's Employment

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Eunsil Oh

People in low-power positions, whether due to gender or class, tend to exhibit other-oriented rather than self-oriented behavior. Women’s experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women... View Details

Keywords: Social Class; Women's Employment; Gender; Employment; Status and Position

March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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The Future of BioPasteur

By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino

The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Outcome or Result; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy

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April 2009 (Revised December 2010)
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Equity International: The Second Act

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Ben Creo and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Thomas McDonald, senior vice president of Equity International (EI), is weighing an investment in the Brazilian homebuilder Gafisa. Was this the right country? The right company? The right co-investor? The right time? McDonald would be investing alongside a Brazilian... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Interests; Brazil

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12 Oct 2021
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Coming Out as Trans at Work

29 Sep 2018
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The curiously varied impact of recessions on political stability: New evidence

March 1996 (Revised April 2001)
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HMS Thetis and Apollo XIII

Explores the management of technical disasters in which time plays a central role. Uses the experience of HMS Thetis and Apollo 13 to look at both successful and unsuccessful approaches. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Crisis Management; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry

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July–August 2016
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Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams

By: Ethan Bernstein, John Bunch, Niko Canner and Michael Lee

Holacracy and other forms of self-organization have been getting a lot of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence... View Details

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Crystal Guo is a doctoral student in the Health Policy Management PhD program at Harvard. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Crystal received her B.A. in English and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and completed her Health Policy and Management,... View Details

Keywords: health care

15 Mar 2019
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PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is difficult to get, taking... View Details

July 1999
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Management Development Plan In A Family Business, The

By: John A. Davis

Defines management development objectives for family members employed in their family business. Outlines a process of putting these individuals on a career path to provide them with needed developmental experiences while respecting the broader needs of the... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Leadership Development; Experience and Expertise

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March 2018
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GiveDirectly

By: John Beshears, Joshua Schwartzstein, Tiffany Y. Chang and Brian J. Hall

How should nonprofits design compensation systems to attract and retain talent? GiveDirectly is a respected charitable organization with an unconventional approach. Instead of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in... View Details