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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
who reflects on his experiences in Rwanda and how unfamiliar environments abroad can lead to reevaluating traditional notions of business risk and social return. It was late at night, and I was tired. Perfect timing for my inner... View Details
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
Learn about bringing this course to your organization . HBS also offers an executive education version of this program for individuals with extensive work experience interested in on-campus programming. Learner Stories 90% are more... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
leading to a 32% income gain for new adopters. The services collapsed one year later when the exporter stopped buying from DrumNet because farmers could not meet new EU production requirements. Farmers sold to other middlemen and defaulted on their loans from DrumNet.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
targeted advertising for the same reason: they didn't want anyone tracking their behavior. On the other hand, millions of people routinely share the most intimate details of their lives via various social media sites. With a series of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking innovative... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking innovative View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
individuals might experience in organizations. Whereas craftsmen in the aeronautics plant I studied dealt with these tensions in a very peculiar manner—by creating artifacts—other populations react differently. Contingent workers by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed sabbatical year. That View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
emphasis toward xerography characterized the Haloid Company in the 1950s. In 1961, in recognition of the spectacular growth of sales engendered by the first plain-paper copier, the firm was renamed the Xerox Corporation. In response to IBM's entrance into the copier... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls skyrocketed: In 1945, there were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
made enough money to send my mom to college." Babban Gona farmers are beginning to experience similar benefits. Some have been able to buy cars and put new roofs on their homes; one is preparing to buy a tractor for his fellow members to... View Details
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
least 18 years of age, proficient in English, and committed to learning and engaging with fellow participants throughout the course. Learn about bringing this course to your organization . HBS also offers an executive education version of this program for individuals... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
Online offers a better overall experience than competitive online business programs Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive within me to learn and absorb as much as I could. Leslie Pico A small business... View Details
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
“I was always intrigued by that.“ With pressure from her Asian parents to pursue a law career, Marcelo applied to Harvard Law School but deferred her acceptance. She wasn’t sure she wanted to be a lawyer and instead she took a litigation consulting job that... View Details
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How Sharing Smart Ideas on Social Can Boost Sales | Working Knowledge
department and likewise nothing is as fantastic as a well filled-up soda department either,” the post read in part. Nearly 600 stores across 11 regions To test the impact of structured knowledge sharing, Sandino and Li worked with 587 stores across 11 regions in a... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Aviation Meet, 1910 WK 764B B74 1 volume, 150 prints This volume contains photographs of the Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet held September 3 to September 13, 1910. Included are photographs taken for the Boston Globe on the aviation field... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Capitalism. "I thought perhaps 30 students would sign up [for the course], but I got more than 300, roughly half the second-year class," she said. "Students are looking for hope. They are afraid they're going to have to put on the suit, make money, and conform. Success... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman