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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
H-1B visa sponsorship has very little to do with company size and is more closely tied to industry and/or a specific company’s policies. We have observed that smaller, earlier stage companies are increasingly willing to pursue visa... View Details
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Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
We are currently working on a number of projects investigating decision-making, from how much money millionaires think they need to be happy to whether the feeling of being observed might decrease people’s likelihood of cheating on their... View Details
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Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
collective impact efforts? 2. How do we define and harness the energy of locally-led and owned movements? One participant observed that the term “movement” was sometimes used synonymously with securing funding for local organizations.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
is dangerously complacent with its place in the world. Marc Lindenberg, dean and professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, observed that today's challenges are structural, ethical, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
have not made as much impact, so we have an opportunity,” she said. Egon Zehnder, founding chairman of a global executive search firm, observed that most boards of directors seeking new leadership now put the quality of personal integrity... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
[PDF]. "There are many detailed case studies of conflict, and many broad-brush, cross-country studies. Within-country studies, such as we conducted on Nepal, fill in the gap between the two different approaches. Our econometric analysis tells us whether what you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
of a major research project that addresses whether rapidly growing Chinese universities will set the world standard for excellence in the 21st century. When I talked with Nohria recently about the year ahead for HBS, I asked him to assess Kirby’s View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
enhance regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future,” while some observers see it as a push to enhance China’s role in global affairs with a China-centered trading network. The course exposed students to the diversity of views... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,”... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
example helped Cassell consider becoming a teacher himself. "It was fascinating to observe how Steve's channeling of the children's excitement about their ideas led students to 'discover' things such as drawing to scale and abstract... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those decisions were... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were "nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
neck," observed Kuemmerle. For him, Jinwoong also exemplifies what an entrepreneur can do to rescue a company by restructuring when such an exogenous shock occurs. Unlike many around the world, Jinwoong managed to successfully... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Drone Policy | About
observed when UAS on HBS property as recommended by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) National Model Aircraft. Safety Code: The pilot must follow all FAA regulations for hobby or recreational flying. Aircraft during free flight must... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
and the business of movies, both concepts of which were totally new to the trio. “We didn’t go into this as a vanity project,” observes Munger. “We did our due diligence first, knowing there are enormous risks involved but that they’re... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
saw our first zebras and wildebeests, whose exoticism wore off as their numbers grew. Lions, although we see dozens of them by the end of the trip, didn’t lose their aura, nor do we get bored with the quiet grace of elephants and the gawky beauty of giraffes. One of... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the two tendencies can be explained as a product of a contingent recency effect: although the estimations reflect negative recency, choice behavior reflects positive recency. A similar pattern is observed in the field study: immediately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne