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- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
"When I asked people what they thought of it, I got vague answers," he says. But during a series of "challenge" meetings he arranged, executives debated the credo in the context of the company's history and mission. "It became clear that... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-035.pdf Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring Authors:Andrew Hill and David Thomas Abstract Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
must learn the ins and outs of a specific client, sector, and geography. This involves understanding how decisions are made, the culture of the decision-makers, and the historical context of the topic. We learn to push boundaries and... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error Authors:Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This paper examines the implications of work View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
amount, including the licensing fee and an additional amount to recoup enforcement costs. Complicating the issue is that many infringement incidences in this context appear to be “uninformed,” that is the businesses are unaware they... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
in Teaching Hospitals By: Huckman, Robert S., Hummy Song, and Jason R. Barro Abstract—We consider the impact of cohort turnover-the planned simultaneous exit of a large number of experienced employees and a similarly sized entry of new workers-on productivity in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13
trusts. Read the paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03585522.2011.617574 Working PapersWhen to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry Author:Hong Luo Abstract How completely should an innovator develop his idea before selling it?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
businesses that we study at HBS work in the context of a larger political economy. Consumer finance businesses, in particular, more so than many others, operate under substantial regulatory and legal scrutiny, and for good reasons. As it... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
are you working on now? A: I am very interested in how markets for intellectual property work and don't work. This has been something I have looked at throughout my career, but I continue to be puzzled by it. We see IP trading in many View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
Dozie found that her purpose was igniting confidence in women. She wanted to help women battle impostor syndrome and self-doubt and she wanted to do that by tapping into her lifelong love for beauty products. “You won’t see me in a professional View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
Being a first-generation student is to continuously discover a world you did not know existed. It requires curiosity and resilience to navigate the unknown options and contexts and often an extra effort to belong. On that discovery... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51496 Spring 2016 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ESG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
to pass, suggesting that the alternatives that competition provides to customers intensify pressure to illegally provide leniency. We also show that, at least in contexts when pricing is restricted, firms use illicit quality as an entry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
things, and events. They provide contexts in which executives and employees can interact to create new meaning. Phronetic leaders use metaphors and stories to convert their experience into tacit knowledge that others can use. They exert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
1979) This book ruminates, from a natural world perspective, on consciousness, choice, growth, time, and death in the context of quantum physics, Kabbala, and healing energy. It discusses natural communities, seasons, migration, cycles,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
ideas and ventures; and the drag of middle management screening of ideas in large organizations that is absent in startups. They concluded, among other things, that the bottom-up RAP process still held the most promise if top management would give more attention to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures... View Details
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508023 Identifying and Exploiting the Right Entrepreneurial Opportunity...For You Harvard Business School Case 808-043 This note provides an analytical framework for assessing potential opportunities in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of balance when it is placed in the context of their personal values, interests, and stage of life." There were a few dissenters to these views. Tom Patterson characterized these in opining that "Most people in an organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett