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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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How Many Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
In an exercise overseen by seventeen HBS faculty members, nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 looked at more than 800 occupations in the United States. They found that it’s not just low-skill jobs that can be readily performed for...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
studies in America, is used to overcoming challenges. “When we founded the company, the economy was contracting and no one wanted to take any risks. As it returned to some semblance of normal, people started feeling better about risks and...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes
white-collar employment is structured," he says. Gathering data from four temporary staffing agencies that focus on managerial and professional talent, Bradach interviewed 26 skilled temporary workers serving as independent contractors and 17 of their company clients....
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Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2011
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Noted & Quoted
Management.” — HBS assistant professor Raffaella Sadun and a group of European researchers, who found in a survey of more than 10,000 firms in 20 countries that when it comes to overall management, American firms outperform all others....
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Research Brief: Great Expectations
coauthors Ke Wang and Erica R. Bailey. (“Pygmalion effect” refers to a psychological phenomenon in which a person performs better when more is expected of them.) Jachimowicz and his collaborators found that people who are enthusiastic...
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- 09 Oct 2019
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Building a Tradition of Giving
Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company he founded in 1995 and led through 2005. He set out to build a company with a “good soul,” he says. “We were like the U.N.—we had one of everything—Hilton, Hyatt, Doubletree, and more and so we had...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Redefining Work Life
Fudge Image courtesy Business Week When Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) found that her career was overtaking her life, she decided to take a sabbatical. Not the most unusual of decisions, except that her job happened to be running a $5 billion...
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Corporate Services
- 10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect way to use her business skills...
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Jill Radsken
- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Folarin Gdabedo-Smith. Though she anticipated her job would be researching and designing policy recommendations, Rewane quickly found herself engaged in the human resources realm, recruiting and building capacity for the organization. “I...
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Jill Radsken
- 16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact
education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance...
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- 07 Aug 2019
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Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
milestone for the biotech industry, which has been slow to diversity its leadership, according to a story in the Boston Globe. The article cites a report from 2017 by the Massachusetts Biotech Council, which found that women were far...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent
“Finding reliable, useful financial information is a real problem that anyone wanting to work at, sell to, buy from, or invest in a Chinese or Indian company must face. I am often asked for guidance in solving this problem and have found...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
digital media leaders and experts. “It’s about inspiring youth to see themselves as makers instead of as users, and to create with technology to make a positive impact,” she says. A serial entrepreneur who most recently founded ROKO Labs,...
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- 11 Jun 2015
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A personal mission to serve veterans
and hearts,” said the former marine captain and Iraq veteran. Sullivan deployed to Fallujah in 2005, and returned with a commitment to help the young marines she sent into dangerous situations. “The one percent who step up in time of war are the best part of this...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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@Soldiers Field
traveling for their January immersion. A few weeks later, they found out which of the 156 different projects—nearly half of them sourced through HBS alumni connections—they’d be assigned.
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream
subjects came to him naturally. He followed Fisher’s advice, enrolled in appropriate classes, scored well, reapplied, and was admitted. Becoming a Better Leader HBS, says Ferrara, was a growth experience, both academically and personally. He View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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A Focus on You
fields ranging from finance to farming. Where did we find these interesting people? Our research into the "how many" question began in the alumni database, where we found stats about your locales, personal passions, jobs, and much more....
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes
stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners (shareholders who serve on the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2024
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Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
the effect is both real and widespread: His 2023 working paper, “No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes,” examined the career paths of 401,785 graduates and found that by many measures the athletes...
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