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- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
suggests the questions of the month. He writes: "... Natural resources and geopolitical advantages played no small role in the American rise to power, but the bulk of the credit belongs to the American work ethic and entrepreneurial...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. In the Quest for Gender Equality, Job Ads Are Low-hanging Fruit; an...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are...
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- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation....
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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
focuses on potentially contested practice where few norms seem to prevail. Whole-body donations for medical education and research provide the setting for this project. The goal is to understand how individuals and organizations operate...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
savings, or fertility behavior in African nations. However we do find weak evidence that AIDS has lead to a slow-down in education gains, as measured by youth literacy, and a rise in poverty, as measured by malnutrition. Download working...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
part of its 10th Reunion. This was not their first time partnering to tackle the thorny issue of inclusion. Harmeling, an ethics and entrepreneurship professor at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, had...
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- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
he preoccupied with skills. He wanted to change how people think for the rest of their careers and he largely succeeded at that.” A strong believer in the individual and in innovation, Doriot was not shy about counseling his students on how to dress and how to...
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- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
child, Rahul remembered "being in the lap of Gandhi." Beyond fundamental ethical considerations, Bajaj also argued that corporate responsibility was crucial for the survival of the capitalist system. "Industry all over the world has a bad...
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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
interviewed have a broad view of their societal and ethical responsibilities. "It's not something that we went fishing for, but it came through very clearly that many of these people, some of whom came from great poverty, are aware of the...
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by Julia Hanna
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books including Attitudes In and...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s...
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Julia Hanna
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
did you focus on those people who carry out "necessary evils" in the workplace? Joshua Margolis and Andrew Molinsky: We became interested in necessary evils because students in our undergraduate, MBA, and executive education...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
professor in the Finance Unit: As an academic, my main reaction to the executive order is that this decision is absolutely not grounded in the facts. I spend a lot of energy teaching my students to look at the facts to educate their...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Legumes, Nuts, Seeds, and More, Based on the Wisdom of Leading American Chefs by Karen Page (MBA 1989) (Little Brown and Co.) People have chosen to adopt vegetarian or vegan diets for a variety...
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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." But the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
in the executive education course The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports. Why did you decide to come to HBS as a student? Like many students, I came to HBS in order to change careers. In college I was focused on becoming a...
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
humility, for humanity as the human dimensions that bring to life our mission of “educating leaders who make a difference in the world.” “Educating leaders” requires humility: we cannot educate unless you have a learning mindset, and you...
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