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01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

another subject as important as this one about which we assume so much and know so little? How do you explain this? What do you think? To read more: Ira T. Kay and Steven Van Putten, Myths and Realities of Executive Pay (Cambridge University Press, due out summer... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Baker resources for HBS Alumni

to current issue and over 2,800 articles from back issues and discount on print subscriptions. (See first item listed in section for "Benefits & Resources" At the HBS Alumni site.) For more information about... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

article that "says that most eureka moments come when the mind is relaxed and unfocused," Gerald Nanninga commented that "You need the initial focus to fill your brain with the raw material, but then you need unfocused time... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

stated in a 2017 Guardian article , "When people think about Africa right now, they often only think about animals, war, and famine. I'm trying to distort that impression to provoke questions in a different sense." Simultaneously speaking... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

approached me with an article in the New York Times about a rock found in Oman that could absorb CO2. And that was the beginning of 44.01. Tell us about 44.01 and what inspired you to co-found it. The special rocks in Oman are called... View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

articles on emerging markets—despite their now huge importance in the global economy. The reason is that journal editors reward the authors of papers employing rigorous testing of rigorous datasets. Once you leave North America, Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

5 years More on Tuition & Financial Support A Community Fueled By Collaboration Students collaborate with Harvard Business School and Harvard University faculty on research, writing, and teaching. By the time they graduate, most students have co-authored at least one... View Details

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Relations and Photography Labor Practices Documenting the Wartime Effort: Footnotes 26 Douglas A. Fisher, Steel in the War (New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1946), 161. 27 Part of these efforts included outreach to newspapers and magazines. In 1943, for... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Academy of Management for “Getting Serious About Diversity” (November–December 2020) with David A. Thomas. Robin J. Ely : Runner-up for the 2021 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award. Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 HBR McKinsey Award for the best... View Details

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

is critical,” he observes. “Even with my global experience, there was still that level of learning that I needed to have about Argentina before I could add value because individual countries have nuances that necessitate an understanding of local context before one can... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

these trends impact social costs so favorably that they could render dependency ratios largely meaningless? What do you think? Original Article Without knowing it, we have already heard a great deal about "dependency ratios." We... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

the proper role of judgment in decision-making? What do you think? Original Article In the last several years, a veritable tsunami of advice on how to make decisions has hit the Internet and what few shelves remain in our local... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Nov 2022
Blog Post

HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

climate but also for those who want to learn about how this almost existential topic affects all of our lives and careers going forward. We hope to achieve this by creating spaces for continued conversations after heated case discussions about sustainability, for... View Details

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

warrants criminal sanctions. As much as I wish it was different, I’m skeptical about the deterrent effect of sanctions at the executive level. Business often operates in a murky world in which the difference between puffery and fraud is oftentimes genuinely unclear.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents Newspaper View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Larry Murphy

It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

business schools in the early decades of their existence. For example, in a speech titled "The Social Significance of Business," delivered at Stanford University's School of Business shortly after its founding in 1925 (and subsequently published as an View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Career Support - Business & Environment

experience, and chart a career in climate and sustainability. Baker Library's Industry Highlights Newsletters Each newsletter provides summaries of important news items with links to the full text. Articles are selected that provide... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an influential force in the oil fields. A recent Houston Chronicle View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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