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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
sees a problem with the larger system within which boards and executives function. Writing in the Washington Post, he and Andy Zelleke, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching:... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
that addresses part of that challenge—with a particular focus on predicting customer churn. However, several other equally important aspects of managing retention have not received similar level of attention, leaving many managerial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
York City–based cybersecurity firm Flashpoint. Lefkowitz and his cofounder spent “the better part of the 2000s” consulting for federal clients, primarily the Department of Justice, on terrorism investigations before starting Flashpoint in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture, which mitigates an agency problem that would otherwise deter the foreign investor from participating. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can be associated with incentive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
selection," wrote Daniel A. Shanoff (HBS '02) in the September 17 edition. "We sweated the early-term cold call. The common metaphor we all bank on— that HBS is our own little oasis away from the 'real world'— was pierced. It's hard to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
start and end [my] ‘workday’” or to facilitate the “switch between work and home” were popular. Exercising and meditating consistently. Exercise was one of the most frequently mentioned activities, with several interviewees noting that... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
problems from (in)convenience to price to congestion, he says. “Robust computer control is at the core of a successful PRT.” The concept is well known—you have likely encountered automated, driverless people movers in cities such as... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent requests from unpredictable... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
millions of dollars for the most senior partners, as well as for unequaled exposure to colleagues and clients of the highest caliber working together to tackle pressing problems faced by the world's leading organizations, not to mention... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
being worried about the manual and start figuring out what the problem is. And all I could tell them is, revel in it every day. I mean, throw yourself at it with everything you’ve got, every day. And I just... View Details