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- 07 Mar 2013
- News
U.S. Crises Like Villain in a Horror Movie: Rivkin
- 04 Nov 2018
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Why Large Companies Continue To Struggle With Innovation
- 01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), the recently retired president of the University of North Carolina, has made a lifelong habit of answering what he terms "life's cold calls of responsibility." To a gathering of graduating HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, he... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise of the National Trust is to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
created by Professor Mitch Weiss for students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. In class, students negotiate terms for a pool of VC money. The simulation draws on PitchBook data from real pitches, and it uses AI and machine learning to make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
where she has advocated for the nonprofit to reevaluate its hiring and human resources. She speaks often of her "ovarian lottery ticket," deploying the Warren Buffett term for those born into lives of opportunity. Her philanthropy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
researchers found that companies with a strong purpose came in two main forms: those with high camaraderie among its employees, and those with high clarity from management about worker expectations and future plans. This latter group saw improved financial performance,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
the exception of some work done on multinational corporations by HBS professor emeritus Chris Bartlett. It’s only recently that there’s been a resurgence of interest. We wanted to capture that moment.” Lawrence and Lorsch’s book essentially defined a field, introducing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains
states in terms of agriculture as a percentage of state GDP—all six of their senators voted for the bill, a much higher figure than the 68 percent of senators in favor as a body. Significantly, four of the six senators were Republicans,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
financial institutions.) Finally, prepare a long-term rehabilitation plan. For the country’s financial system, this means a new regulatory structure. “It, for sure, will be reregulated because the government had to be so deeply involved in the rescue,” said Light. “And... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
beginnings of what he now terms his "obsession." Since leaving his day job as a fundraiser for the University of Massachusetts last year, Walling has produced about a painting a week from his studio at home in suburban Boston. His wife,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
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Driven
emerged. Next, they analyze the origins of the four drives mentioned above and discuss their role in everyday life. The authors then look at the drives in terms of their relationship to human culture, emotions, and skills. Finally, they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
The article helped catalyze the thinking of many in the nonprofit field and illuminated and encouraged the evolving concept of "venture philanthropy." Drawing on the expertise of HBS faculty in finance, negotiation, and entrepreneurship, Grossman plans to examine the... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
He created the sociology of science; terms such as focus group, role model, and self-fulfilling prophecy are all familiar to us because of his work. He's 87 now, a university professor emeritus at Columbia, and a scholar at the Russell... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
however, risk falling prey to "dot vertigo" - Nolan's term for the first signs of trouble when an organization starts to fail because of inadequate understanding or deployment of technology. Drawing on case-based management lessons, Nolan... View Details