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- 01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert
strengths and interests blossomed more in a creative, flexible environment than in a large, corporate structure. She left Wall Street for a job as a case writer at INCAE, the Central American business school based in Costa Rica. In... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
Ivashina. “That’s how we learn. In Silicon Valley, it’s a badge of honor. But the MENA environment is not as conducive to a quick recovery after failure. The successful entrepreneurs that we’ve seen in the region are the survivors.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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New Releases
the social environment on creative motivation and behavior in a variety of contexts, including the organization. From an ongoing multiyear research project into the nature of creativity and how social factors influence its manifestations,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
You’re writing fresh material for a paperback edition of The Partnership that’s coming out in the fall. What’s new that you’re focusing on? First and most important, the larger business environment in 2008–2009 has been completely... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
freedom of inquiry. If it’s done well, we know that discipline and excellence of execution can enhance the research environment and learning process. In fact, it’s liberating. I think people admire how we make that work at HBS. Where else... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
was a systems thinker, GMP gave me new ways to think about how to align incentives and manage an ecosystem,” he says. “It had me sit back in an environment that’s challenging, asking, Am I following the right strategy?” The GMP program... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
ALL IN: The bigger the bet Hollywood makes, the better. Photo courtesy of Anita Elberse Offstage at a Lady Gaga concert seems an unlikely place for academic fieldwork. But that's exactly the kind of environment that allows Anita Elberse... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
all. I failed to create the kind of environment in which everyone would tell Bob what was really great about working with him, would give him real praise, meaningful praise and also the kind of environment... View Details
- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
underserved communities. “The resources provided through NCCP help level the playing field and help ensure more children have equal access to opportunities. There are too many children learning in underfunded environments to not share... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
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Rebooting Europe
Building a whole new culture must come from the ground up. “The whole point,” Moedas says, “is to create an environment where people are not afraid of failure.” View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
should be a hard-ass and fire people all the time. I definitely was not that kind of CEO. I probably erred on the side of consensus and collaboration. The external environment is a big factor in creating company culture. For us, it is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally
international student body — 33 percent of the MBA Class of 2003 — that our course materials are drawn from diverse country environments that illustrate cross-border and cross-cultural issues in business management,” notes HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the tough retail View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big
Bart Howe (MBA 2011) envisions a time when tablet computers are self-charging and when buildings will generate their own power. Ubiquitous Energy, a company he cofounded that is creating a new generation of solar cells, puts these innovations within reach. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
all of the commingling and diversification it gives you, also gives you a lack of transparency. So if you have an environment like the one we have now, the assets that have been securitized actually make you worse off than if they were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments like that. The second strand of our work is developing new ways to identify which borrowers have high-growth opportunities. Microfinance often operates in View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
environment for each person. With junior employees, it’s helpful to build camaraderie by having substantial in-person interaction, and location concentration allows for this. With several locations distributed geographically, OnRamp will... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
development and the environment — against one another? In a recent case authored by Professor of Management Practice Sandra Sucher, David Lowish, a director in charge of Generation’s global industrial sector, is tracking ABB India, a... View Details