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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
empowers the Black community. “The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
and the uncertainty it generates for investments. All aspects of the migration-innovation-entrepreneurship nexus involve deep investments. To move to another country for education or work is a life-changing investment, and individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
bit. JH: When I spoke to Tosh, she said that Xerox was a very forward-thinking company and one of her superiors said, you need to go be on a board. And sort of introduced her to the idea and supported her through that effort. What would... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
clause in Argentinian sovereign debt instruments have generated considerable controversy. Some official-sector participants and academic articles have suggested that the rulings will disrupt or impede future sovereign debt restructurings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas that occurs because of intra-firm mobility. But a second mechanism may also be at work: intra-firm mobility might... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability, either in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
connections (measured as campaign donations to politicians who won an election). Yet, we do not find evidence that BNDES is systematically bailing out firms. In general, BNDES appears to be generally selecting firms with capacity to repay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
converting an idea into reality, recruiting inspired talent, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO (Start Up Guru Series) by Bill Lewis (AMP... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
in early April 2024, recently published the first State Opportunity Index. And while the U.S. in general has roughly the best higher education system in the world, we’re not doing as well—at least not as consistently well—in ensuring that... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
inductively generate a consumer (patient)-centric marketing model. The focal organizations are unique in that they all identify patient needs first, then work backwards to develop economically viable solutions. These solutions are not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capital costs, have very low operating (marginal) costs, and have few investment opportunities. As a result, projects generate large amounts of "free cash flow" (cash flow in excess of what is needed to finance all positive NPV... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Dr. McCluney is a first generation college graduate from High Point, NC. Learn more about her work at her website: http://courtneylmccluney.com/... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
an excitement and willingness to explore new insights and new angles on how to explain and cultivate social change within or across organizations. This edited volume will be of interest to an international community that seek to understand how organizations and people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment management in the hopes of creating a focused organization that empowers the Black community. “The idea... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
messages to be clear, simple, and true. “It had to have that lyrical, poetic element to it that makes it memorable. The core of it had to be no more than 15 seconds,” he says, “and ideally it was 10.” Ultimately, one of the biggest challenges was getting everyone to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s random-number View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
wage, and then offering a raise with no further conditions after the employee has accepted the contract) does lead to persistently higher effort. Consistent with the idea that the recipient's interpretation of the wage as a gift is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne