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- 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27
damaged financial markets. As an alternative to the patchwork solutions and ideologically charged proposals that have dominated other discussions, the Squam Lake group sets forth a clear nonpartisan plan of action to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
Action Tamara Lytle Author tag Board Diversity The process of appointing powerful board directors has been put into the spotlight in recent years, as companies, courts, governments, investors and even a stock exchange weigh in. For the most part, they’re View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
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Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
board of directors for Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses volunteer talent from the private sector to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the armed forces and... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
guiding the conduct of the business enterprise. . . . The world cries out for repair. While some people in the world are well off, many more live in misery. Ironically, the magnitude of the problem defies easy recognition. With the global... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
‘How did you get there?’ ” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Jahn Karsybaev (GMP 26, 2019), CTO at ProSource IT and host of The Ivy Podcast MUST READ Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein “Pearlstein challenges what has become conventional wisdom about... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
research study of 30 world-class innovators who have collectively created billions of dollars’ worth of business value, as well as new advances in the arts and sciences that bring joy to the world and can save millions of lives. Insights... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions Course Number 1565 Professor Laura Alfaro Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Course Overview This course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsBunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets Harvard Business School Case 708-443 In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
scientific problem solving? Yes, and it comes from an unexpected and unrelated corner of the universe: open source software development. That's the view of Karim R. Lakhani, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School with an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
System, a building set for preteen girls. Ello immediately won praise from toy industry insiders and has since become a hit for Mattel. Based upon the success of the Ello project, Mattel’s chairman and CEO, Robert Eckert, enthusiastically endorsed Ross’ View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
to deviate from the proposed research activities. The contract prevents opportunistic exercise of the termination right by conditioning payments on the termination of the agreement. We test the model empirically using a new data set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16922 Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Abstract This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
What do leaders this year and the next need to be doing differently than last year, and last decade, and last century? The rapidly changing business world means dramatic changes are afoot in time-worn notions about leadership, according... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the end of July, the business tribunal in Caen was considering four offers for the Jeannette brand and leftover machinery, Viana’s among them. Two focused solely on the purchase of the machinery; one View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
strategy. To this end, the knowledge that I learned at HBS was definitely helpful, but the most important skillset I used was empathy; putting myself in the shoes of management of the company and proposing something valuable to them when... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
two different sites using the hospital's existing cost system and a proposed new system based on time-driven activity-based costing. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112086-PDF-ENG The Atavist: Reinventing the Book Khaire, Mukti,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
guide for anyone who is on a team or leads a team—whether a junior or senior manager, from big organizations or small, in the United States or abroad—and wants to make the impossible possible: turning off more, while improving the work process itself. Sleeping with... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow