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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 07 Jul 2023 Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies Candidates consider many... View Details

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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

worked in practice and how will Singapore attract, retain, and develop top talent? Are its education and immigration policies sufficient to support this growth? What impact does Singapore’s geographic location have on its growth? As a... View Details

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

public to private) can be a tool for changing a company’s trajectory. We will also consider the “Founder’s Final Act,” which is the choice that a founder makes about where to locate ownership when they leave the business. That choice will... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

“club in the closet” as often as possible — something we know as leadership. The difference, of course, is that at Outward Bound we are delivering a bottom line consisting of human potential, not dollars, and the national president has yet to View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s as well as instrument immigrants’ location... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

product development, customer support, and “Eastern Labs”—a new office enclosed by glass walls and located in the middle of Eastern's main lobby. Rivers provides Labs with $4 million annually—1% of gross revenues—to develop new banking... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

(Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 705-441 Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

what we know. But now I believe that once again stories are becoming incredibly important. Awash in a tsunami of information, we are looking for more than data and facts. Out of this information overload, we’re trying to make sense of what we’re experiencing and View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

acquiring the customer list. We’re acquiring the people and their expertise that allows them to sell to those customers. So we don’t get rid of people in a hurry. As a global firm, do you have a single company culture or different cultures at each View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Terms of Use - HBS Online

(11 August 2024) 1. Introduction; Changes Please read these Terms of Use and the other Agreements described immediately below before registering for, accessing or using any portion of the Harvard Business School Online website (the “Site,” which consists of all content... View Details

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira Abstract— Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Apr 2020
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Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

occupied, preferably using demand control ventilation. Select the right filter for the location of your building. (Check out the terrific report by Brent Stephens, Terry Brenna, and Lew Harriman, “Selecting Ventilation Air Filters to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

20 Aug 2014
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Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

looks overwhelmingly like NPEs are just targeting firms that are more likely to pay out” Known as Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), the companies in the Baxter Building are located in Marshall for one reason: the federal courthouse next... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

name of the newspaper. Within seconds, he located three bios for Perez, information about her work with the UC Irvine alumni club, the citation for an "up-and-coming journalist" award she'd won, links to her personal pages on several... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

(HBS MBA'87), director of the Agribusiness Program at HBS. A Family Farm Woolf Farming & Processing, established in 1974, is located in the southern part of California's Central Valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country.... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

March 2025
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Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work the Taylor Way

By: Dennis Campbell, Petros Kusmu and Stacy Straaberg

In 2013, guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars’ co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private equity firm. The co-founders decided, instead, to embark on a seven-year process to transfer 100%... View Details

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07 Jan 2015
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The Quest for Better Layoffs

from a job—or several jobs. They then introduced the best candidates to Dave Habeeb and Ruth Page, of HBS's Educational Technology Services, who went on location to film interviews with the laid-off employees and their families. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

require expanding beyond Atlanta. NeuroLaunch opened additional locations in Boston and San Francisco last summer, and the entrepreneurs for its next batch of investments will meet in all three places. NeuroLaunch is also raising... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

environment. With all the proposals on the table and the years of construction that lie ahead of us, that’s the goal we keep in mind.” Reed Hilderbrand & Ayers Saint Gross A Decade of Digging 1 Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center ETA 2016 Located... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

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