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19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

American Jobs Plan promotes significant new investments in training. Policymakers and educators should seize the opportunity to use the funding for programs that braid education with work experience, especially those where people can... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

promote a more open and experimental culture. Just the beginning Artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, creating plenty of ground-floor opportunities for entrepreneurs who are disciplined in their approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

execution is paramount. Surveys should be short and focus on a few key points to encourage employee engagement. To promote the most candid dialogues, an organization should segment members by seniority and leadership levels. Leaders may... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

writes in Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929–1945 . “ Fortune built on the increasingly populist orientation of the art world as it promoted an integration of culture and capitalism that would... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

promote our technology. 44.01 was the first carbon removal technology to win an Earthshot Prize, which has brought what we do to a much broader audience. This has been great for us, great for the industry, and great for the communities we... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

customer defection would have led to the conclusion that the bank's interest rates were not competitive. A deeper analysis led to an alternate conclusion: The bank's marketing department needed to do a better job of screening in advance the customers to whom it View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

share stories about their health issues that were once seen as “taboo,” such as mental health , now is the time to combat stigmatization and promote education on rare diseases. What are rare diseases and how rare are they? The Orphan Drug... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES Syrup works by integrating a retailer’s data—historical and real-time transactions and inventory, e-commerce patterns, and marketing and promotion plans, among other things—with weather, search,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Harvard Business School

joined American Express as a marketing vice president in the travel-related services division. Before his retirement in 1993, he was promoted to senior vice president for worldwide communications. Wilkinson was a trustee and national... View Details

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

is likely to accept more aggressive accounting from her client than what she might suggest independently. In addition to these structural elements that promote bias, three aspects of human nature can amplify unconscious biases. Individual... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

Pursued a different role, position, or location 9% Made a formal complaint 7% Limited travel 7% Limited time you spent at work 7% Left a job 6% Declined or decided not to work toward a promotion 4% Took days off or called in sick 3% “I... View Details

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

promote greater flexibility in work arrangements, such as working remotely.” POLL Does your commute affect your workday? We asked Working Knowledge readers how they manage their comments. Here's what they said. View poll results The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

would also require an enormous investment by incumbent players to upgrade their existing production capacity.4 Industry leader Goodyear acted quickly to deflate radials' progress, and in 1967 introduced the belted bias tire, an extension of the existing bias... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main stakeholders—government, the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

on local government and programming that includes visiting HBS faculty. While the club is growing, Weintraub says there is no formal paid membership. Instead, he promotes programs and events to about 2000 people in the Seattle area who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

“The illustration of the eyes as well as the advertising rhetoric in the text helped promote the importance of appearance in selecting foods.” Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane, 1945. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

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Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis

Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior

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30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

at Stanford, would evolve over time; its membership and public presence did, too. Today the PRIDE group is an association of 190 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students and partners. It serves as a social and professional network,... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

trajectory.” McArthur is credited with building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and... View Details

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