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01 Jun 2025
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Forward Thinking

The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

December 1998
Article

Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck

A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France

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Portrait Project

Tom Humphrey

When I was five, everyone called me "Zac." He was the protagonist of a book mum would read to me at night, a boy who battled imaginary dragons to save his town. Inspired, I would run around in a cape terrorising the... View Details

Portrait Project

Daniella Yacobovsky

choices. The prospect of losing my memory in the twilight of my life makes me more appreciative of forming those memories now. My life has felt consumed with preparation for later, and my never-ending quest for professional achievement. Work hard now. View Details

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Public companies: fast growing

the top of the filters where it says Unsaved Screen, click the drop down and select TR US Large Growth to load the saved screen. You will see all of the filters applied at the bottom of the screen. These can be edited by clicking the... View Details

Portrait Project

Seth Shapiro

Square. I was annoyed, tormenting myself for lost time. Yet, I had no idea that those extra six minutes until the next train would save my life. That is because I was only two blocks from reaching the finish line when I saw the first bomb... View Details

25 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

user experience based on the feedback we received. Gradually, people to whom we showed the site became more and more excited about the savings they could find. In the early days, we acquired users on a person-by-person basis. We would... View Details

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Benefits & Compensation | Employment

about saving for retirement through our Tax-Deferred Account program and a variety of generous, competitive pension plans. Learning & Development Harvard Business School employs our own Learning & Development Specialist who is available... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Noted & Quoted

“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on avoiding overuse of facts and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

regulation and an overview of how those changes will affect almost everyone. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118758714.html August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Savings in Transnational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Verification | HBS Online

One-Click Verification button on your digital certificate. For detailed instructions on how to access your Credential Verification webpage, save the link, and add this verification to your resume and LinkedIn profile, follow these steps.... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World

Alliance to Save Energy, 2009. PC Energy report, 2009 “Transportation ” Union of Concerned Scientists, Common Sense on Climate Change Solution #1 “Power plants ” Union of Concerned Scientists, Common Sense on Climate Change #2 View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Books

Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Being Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Emeritus Kotter and his coauthor reveal how to win the support ideas need to deliver results. The key is... View Details

Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

for auto parts online. Finally, the company is moving its internal processes, such as billing and inventory, online. GM estimates that each of these four undertakings will save an extraordinary amount of money and enable the company to... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

immediately understood and added value to a number of deals,” says Alastair. “But the single biggest value he brought? He was excited by our mission. He’s done everything from M&A analysis to support for your growth strategy, to helping us develop our initial View Details

Keywords: Health Care

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the natural resources for using water,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2002
News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom conglomerates were then the business... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Portrait Project

Jocelyne Moyer

was to guarantee a secure job, with a secure future. To follow my passion, do what I love, find my calling – these were follies of the foolish. I was too smart to fall for those traps. Fear was suffocating me. But as I made my way in the world, small moments of hope... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

flexibility in this timeframe and might start demanding flexible work as a long-term solution. Doesn’t making employees work remotely save on utility expenditures? Choudhury: If companies allow workers to live anywhere, they might View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

been a saving grace in ensuring that the financial crisis did not cause further damage to the economy. With traditional monetary and fiscal policy instruments seemingly exhausted, the mobilization of that cash hoard can prove critical to... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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