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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

routes added Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Anti-immigration sentiment peaks during WWI Great Migration begins as African-Americans relocate from rural South to northern cities Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Population of urban centers overtakes that of rural... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

entrepreneurs. “It’s never a one stakeholder story.” Taking this longer view, she says, makes it easier to see beyond clusters as self-contained and localized to their more nuanced role as interactive spaces that foster communication and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

slide). Three examples of how academic language was translated into language that appeals to business practitioners. For the past 20 years Greenstein has written a 1,500-word column for IEEE Micro, a bimonthly magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future

sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

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5.1 Information Technology | MBA

MBA Program. Standards for Electronic Communication & Interaction HBS is committed to freedom of expression. All members of the HBS Community benefit from the open expression... View Details

11 Jan 2016
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Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources

Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Students Reach Out to Haiti

Medicine Institute, Seth Moulton (HBS ’11) collaborated on the development of an iPhone electronic health record application that doctors can use to track patients in the field. And Haiti native Jules Walter and Jean-Claude Homawoo (both... View Details

Keywords: disaster relief; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

October 1982
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Fiber-Optics Industry (F)

By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells

Keywords: Communications Industry; Communications Industry

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Find at Harvard

01 Dec 2010
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What’s Important to You?

Watch your mail — electronic and snail — this spring for the 2011 Alumni Communications Survey. This is your chance to help HBS understand the types of news and information from the School that really matter... View Details

Keywords: meta

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

number of administrative functional managers in the C-suite. One possible explanation is that prior to the onset of electronic communication, it would have been too costly for employees to communicate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2000
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World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector

age of global development -- not the agricultural revolution and not the industrial revolution, but a digital and electronic revolution, which will have enormous implications on where we go both in the world in general and in the... View Details

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Collecting Strategy | Baker Library

our strong collection foundation. We are committed to strengthening our collections to provide unique resources for exploring the important theories, organizations, movements, and individuals that have shaped the business world today, making certain that the HBS View Details

01 Sep 2013
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The Secret Sauce

Susan and Scott Hawkins Email communication was key to achieving a class best of 53 percent participation. When asked to lead his class's 30th Reunion Gift participation efforts, Atlanta-based real estate developer Scott Hawkins was up... View Details

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

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Harvard University Policies | About

Harvard University Policies Campus Use Rules Given the volume and complexity of the demand for campus resources and to foster the well-being of community members and preserve these resources for future generations, the University must... View Details

02 Sep 2016
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Building a Legacy

Generators from Japan. India had power shortages; I became the largest importer of generators in the world in three years. I was all of 23, 24 then. “I imported India’s first push-button phone. And phones were not allowed to be imported. But View Details

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Gabriel Handel | About

alumni relations. Gabe holds governance roles with the Harvard Innovation Lab and the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He serves on the HBS Tech Board, the Harvard University Electronic Communications Policy... View Details

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Harvard & HBS IT Policies | Information Technology

Harvard & HBS IT Policies Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to protecting the information that is critical to teaching, research, and the University’s many varied activities, our business operation, and the communities we... View Details

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