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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

stewards for the future. Contact: David Havelick Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) encourages research and education about the environment and its many... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

encourage renminbi internationalization as a costless means of assurance to China, to incentivize reform and moderation, and to encourage a system of monetary co-existence that neither strains the dollar nor generates a bifurcated global... View Details

08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

reasonable but firm deadline no later than twelve months from the start of the interim talks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2386291 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-031 StriveTogether: Reinventing the Local View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

findings suggest that overbilling is an important alternative manipulation tool in hospitals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53299 Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

soars GI Bill Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Social conformity McCarthyism Membership in organized religion soars Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools> Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Civil rights movement gain... View Details

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

fashion at the commission there was no need to 'rock the boat,'" he wrote. "I tolerated more than I should have." The student ended his essay with some concrete suggestions on how to reform the commission. "They each... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Feb 2005
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Is Business Management a Profession?

individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the business community have issued their own calls for View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

Management Educator at Harvard Business School. Tabatha Robinson (MBA 2020) is a New York-based lawyer who studies the cannabis industry. [Unsplash/Roberto Valdivia] Are you in favor of legalizing cannabis more widely? Why or why not?... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

08 Feb 2016
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Applying to Business School as a Couple

sell-side deal and started dating shortly after the deal was announced. Though Kate had plans to move back to her home in Seattle, after meeting Patrick she stayed in NYC and worked in education reform in... View Details

13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the introduction of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

growing things could play in educating others about indigenous cultures. Now he talks about the intelligence of corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

research. He is also active in efforts to reform public education through the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an organization he cofounded several years ago and now chairs. Distinguished Service Awards... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Charts & Statistics Birthplace Education Gender & Ethnicity Tenure Birthplace of Leaders Foreigners Gain CEO Access After Mid-Century Pre-1950 Founder 73% Family Business 2% Other CEO... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

casebook coauthored by PELP faculty, Managing School Districts for High Performance, is required reading for a course on reform in urban school districts and schools. And at HBS, the second-year MBA course Entrepreneurship in View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

December 2013). Scott Duke Kominers : Honored as an Outstanding Alumnus in STEM and Business by the Center for Excellence in Education in 2013. Josh Lerner : Named one of the ten most influential academics in the institutional investing... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej underscores the unique situation facing... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

to understand them, and be prepared to educate the VC about why his exercising too much power could hurt both parties in the long-term. Maximize trust. Beneath all the financial projections, the VC negotiation is a process in which people... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

margins, want reform to be instituted through the familiar public-school structure. For their part, HBS graduates have long been involved in various education initiatives and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

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