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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a...
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Jennifer Myers
- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his career, he has been an innovative teacher who View Details
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
an integral part of Silicon Valley culture, we first need to understand how Silicon Valley came to be. Nancy Koehn: My name is Nancy Koehn. I'm a historian at the Harvard Business School where I hold the James E. Robison Chair of Business...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
made us recognize that perhaps we hadn’t thought enough about the American hinterland and similarly neglected regions in many other countries in our push to cover the globe. We have begun to pay more attention to these areas, even as we continue to strengthen our...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
barware, and accessories.) Ocean plastic is a particularly vexing environmental problem: By contaminating our water and killing marine life, it endangers everything higher up the food chain—including us. That’s why Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) cofounded and heads the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute
even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation”...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
business as a profession, with the social implications and heightened sense of responsibility that goes with that.” Said Light, “This is an important aspect of HBS, and has been since our founding.” The conference, led by Alumni Chair...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we pivoted and developed some of...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
HBS, in which two-thirds of the student body are members. Their activities, which are open to the entire HBS community, range from running conferences to leading study trips abroad and from organizing major social events to sponsoring...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
—GE Francesca Gino When hiring, relax but verify Gino Associate Professor Francesca Gino explores what makes human beings tick. Her research encompasses issues of judgment, decision-making, negotiation, ethics, social influence,...
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