Human Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2009
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Faculty Books

calls for new, smarter regulation. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward modernizing regulatory theory. Professor Moss and his coeditor have gathered essays by leading scholars that integrate the latest research about the interplay between View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

characterized by a high degree of mobility of capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Far as the Eye Can See: A History of Seeing by Susan M. Denham (MBA 1993) The History Press From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

month, the results are nearly disastrous, but the concerns are human and strategic, not just technological: “How do we get people to change? Do we adapt our business process to the technology or the technology to our process?” I find... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Feb 2014
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The "40-Year-Old Intern" Goes to Wall Street

Keywords: on ramping; back to work; women's issues

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me an incredible opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession.... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Back to School

Campaign for Human Capital at the School District of Philadelphia” examines one district’s innovative approach to recruiting and retaining qualified teachers; “Reinventing View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

investors and our society. This is what Michael Porter refers to as ‘shared value.’ I believe in the power of capitalism and the power of human ingenuity to get us out of the holes we’ve dug for ourselves.”... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Books

firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward stateowned enterprises, which... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

intersection of large historical forces and individual human agency that we have our best hope of reconstructing the past truthfully. Of those dozens of Times articles you selected, do you have any favorites? My favorites range from Times... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off

trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry.... View Details

13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change

director at Summit Partners, says her connection to the contemporary art world began casually. The mother of four had taken a break from real estate development (Rouse & Associates, then AEW Capital Management) after the birth of her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2016
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Ink

movement. “When we feel powerless or subordinate, we constrict our posture, tightening, wrapping, and making ourselves smaller,” she writes. Cuddy is among a growing number of HBS faculty using scientific methods and behavioral science to study how the View Details

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship. We started in the whaling... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes... View Details