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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new factory on 760 acres at Paine Field... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52575 The Cross Section of Bank Value By: Egan, Mark, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We study the determinants of value creation within U.S. commercial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
Christopher Poliquin. “It would take approximately 66 people dying in individual gun homicide incidents to have as much impact on bills introduced as each person who dies in a mass shooting” The researchers constructed a dataset of all... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
euros. Currently overseeing 4.9 million square meters of real estate, RFH is ambitiously planning the construction of two additional facilities, further expanding its footprint in the global flower market. With the area of its warehouses... View Details
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5.3 Community Standards/Disciplinary Outcomes & Sanctions | MBA
tracking potential patterns of conduct. A pattern of such conduct may give rise to a disciplinary matter. Examples of educational interventions may include: A developmental conversation with a staff member. A constructive dialogue with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
revise rules that make it possible today for rogue legislators to hold up bills that an overwhelming majority of citizens want. Term limits are Braun’s number one recommendation for constructive systemic change. Leading by example, he set... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Business School was being established on the right basis and being run on the right lines.” Baker’s endowment, and a remarkable collaboration between architects McKim, Mead & White and landscape design firm Olmsted Brothers, made possible the expedited View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
observes. Davis thinks like an investor—“we’ll see outsized returns,” he says, more than once—but also admits he’s invested a little of himself in this project. One day this spring, as Davis walked through West Philadelphia with his View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility for the porters who... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- Web
Art Nature Business
with dialogues on nature, industry, science, ecology, and the environment, from the nineteenth century to the present. The eighteen works in this exhibition explore themes such as the Romantic landscape tradition and the sublime; the artist’s experience of nature;... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
meaningful, intellectual contribution to the larger conversation about the role and impact of the arts in society. My final deliverable was a white paper that examined the shifting landscape for funding in the arts. In order to determine the nature of this shift, I... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
leaders focus on making others better as they drive positive change. To maintain your credentials as a rebel leader, she recommends: (1) “seek out the new,” both for yourself and your employees, (2) encourage constructive dissent, (3)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
explore the factors that enable hybrids to meet and sustain their social mission, while also engaging in commercial activities to support their operations. The researchers began by constructing a database containing annual data on more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
a 401(k) program. Boeing threatened to move construction of the 777X jetliner to another state without the concession. Funding The Future Even so, companies are still on the hook for paying benefits to those employees who have already... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
economies. The Industry R&D Survey—Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Periodical:Journal of Technology Transfer (forthcoming) Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007
construct a generic model of a refugee camp economy. Camp economies are influenced by host country policies, such as restrictions on refugees' movement and work, as well as by the physical and economic isolation of the site. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
Summing Up There's no need to rethink important economic constructs just because of the growth of the Long Tail phenomenon and its impact on demand and supply. Or is there? That was part of the debate that occupied respondents to this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
users can add context or explain why a post might be misleading. Such features, she believes, may constructively serve to amplify the reputational costs of sharing misinformation. “Our results suggest that sharing information that gets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman