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30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

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

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

Jr. makes a $5 million grant to build Aldrich Hall , which features horseshoe-shaped classrooms—a revolutionary design at the time—that facilitate case-based learning. 1950 The Kresge family makes a $2 million gift to construct a dining... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

board performance even more difficult. Effective boards are those that take the initiative to design clear and focused forward-looking agendas, concentrating board energy on a company's specific value drivers, and then employing tools and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Harvard University is committed to maintaining the integrity and availability of the Harvard network for the vital educational and research purposes for which it was designed... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

Like archaeologists digging on a remote hillside, business researchers have unearthed an important segment of the United States economy all but hidden from traditional innovation policy, yet accounting for tens of millions of jobs crucial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the client, concluding that the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

03 Dec 2015
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

or both semesters. 3. Faculty members sponsor independent projects You should approach the professor you want to work with as early as you can. You should be prepared to design the IP objectives, goals, and deliverables more-or-less... View Details

18 Nov 2013
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Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

specialists—including a professional climber, a doctor, and a photographer—each of whom scored points according to how many of their individual goals were met. For each group, the researchers designated a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

Abstract—This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

11 Apr 2023
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BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

fuels was in line with what other companies supported: $100-150/ton of CO2. For their business model, BTG Bioliquids chose the technology licensing route, instead of a capital-intensive model where they would build and operate their own facilities. As a View Details

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

broader field of study. Microprocess research in organizational studies reveals implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which microprocesses are treated as parts of larger systems. We suggest that phenomenological... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

discuss her research and the enduring power of Adam Smith's ideas. Ann Cullen: How did you and your coauthors come to be interested in this lesser known publication of Adam Smith? Nava Ashraf: Several years ago while taking a graduate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

13 Nov 2019
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Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

require. “Without a soul, without human insight, the capabilities of the machine will be limited,” a group of 13 marketing scholars write in their working paper, Soul and Machine (Learning), which takes a high-level view of the present and future role of machine... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

expertly craft research reports. Asher Salik Student at New York University Prepare for the MBA classroom with the program Harvard Business School offers to incoming students. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an... View Details

24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

Organizations Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Theorists argue that an organization's high-level choices, such as its organizational design or the attributes of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2007
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Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

psychotherapist, and career development counselor for over 25 years, is also a researcher on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. He met recently with HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

money. But they also learned Mexicans loved their smartphones and wanted to earn more money, despite the hassle of two-hour job commutes. Given their backgrounds in retail, Campbell and Monroy focused on seven different industry use cases, including market View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

business models and journalism, to support news organizations, and raise the capital to effect large-scale structural change in the industry, says Hansen Shapiro. Currently a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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