The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2018
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Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room

conversations with all extremities of society. I'll volunteer at a local shelter, interact with people who haven't had the best circumstances or come from the best means, but are View Details

07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

to be staying tonight? The sun is setting’. I said ‘well, I have no idea’. And they said, ‘well, why don't you come stay at our place’? And that's what I did. It was just a great experience. This happened to... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

choices we face. Regards, Dean Nitin Nohria I suspect there’s a great deal that most of us can agree on about capitalism. The free enterprise system, of which HBS is an essential part, has lifted billions of... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

quickly noticed a disconnect between the English language of an Albanian classroom and the one spoken in a New Haven dorm room, with classmates constantly asking her to repeat herself. Inspired by her... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

move from 'commanding' to 'cooperating.'" Tending to the organizational spirit may necessitate more individual soul-searching on the part of managerial leaders, as well. "Companies that want to be View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

had never suspected Janek; they remained friends for decades after that night. His treachery, though not fatal to the movement, was difficult for Maj to bear. The second truth Maj uncovered in his SB file is... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

MBA elective curriculum and teaches Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations. Salter believes that "all great courses at HBS communicate performance hypotheses - notions about what makes... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

experience working with a Ukrainian supplier named Rolin Kostya, who continues to make his products under great duress. “The week I spoke to them, there had been a half dozen air raid warnings—and indeed one interrupted View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been... View Details

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