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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions is the subject of an ongoing...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings announcement View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
you consider launching a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company? When I left the U.S. Army after a 22-year career, I launched Xtreme Solutions, an information technology services provider. I knew I could start a successful business...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
work. Can you talk about that a little more? You said that you're engaged in something you're sort of informally calling The Sabbatical Project. Can you give me an update on what you've done with that to date and where you hope to go with...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social Authors:Michael Chu Publication:Chap. 1 in Negocios Inclusivos y Creación de Empleo. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, forthcoming Abstract In today's world,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
question-asking on liking. In addition to analyzing live get-to-know-you conversations online, we also studied face-to-face speed-dating conversations. We find that speed daters who ask more questions during their dates are more likely to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American enterprise, Koehn includes more than 100 Times news articles, dating from 1869 to 2003, while developing and analyzing three major themes: The Corporation, The Changing Nature of Work, and Defining Moments in Technology. Excerpts...
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- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
industry.The challenge that we face—making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people—is not unique to health care. Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to...
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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third year of...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
during my freshman year and his sophomore year at Indiana University. We fell in love through ping pong games (I always lost), late night fast food runs, weekends exploring state parks, Bible studies, and service trips. We survived a year...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
a mysterious reservations system. If they are lucky enough to be one of the 8,000 who get a booking that year, they are then given a date and time to show up. Reaching elBulli’s coastal perch involves traveling to Barcelona, then...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
fortune telling. In a typical prosecution dating from 1918, a woman was arrested in New York and charged under the state Code of Criminal Procedure (section 899-3); she was found to be a "disorderly person" who was "pretending to tell...
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by Walter A. Friedman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no...
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by Theodore Kinni
- Web
European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
CEO of Deloitte Consulting. Prior to assuming the top spot in 2019, he served as head of the Government and Public Services practice and Chief Strategy Officer for human capital. We’ll examine the post-Covid challenges facing consultants...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
size of its stores), the decline of mall-based shopping, poor floor-level sales capabilities, lack of appeal to younger consumers, intensifying competition, and an overall dearth of future growth opportunities. This case allows students to assess Lundgren's leadership...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the...
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April White
- Program
Managing Health Care Delivery
organization Enhance coordination of services Stimulate and improve innovation over time Become a more capable health care leader Build skills to design and lead a competitive health care delivery organization Understand how effective...
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Health Care