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- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
were struck by her struggles, what she made of them, and how she took adversity and turned it into opportunity by her desire to help other women make their lives better," says Koehn. "That lesson...
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Business Disciplines - MBA
External Funding Students of Business Disciplines Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Online Resources Women Minority Students International Students Veterans New Americans College/Grads Business Disciplines...
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true, says Harvard Business School...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2020
- News
Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
Clubs News Clubs News Tanaka Named First Woman President of HBS Club of Japan Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) made HBS history in August when she became the first...
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Margie Kelley
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
likely to be able to tell the difference between good and bad advice. In another experiment, in which she asked participants to estimate the amount of money in a jar of coins, she found that anxious...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 20 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing Coleman’s Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Innovation & Innovative ... Innovation & Innovative Capacity Innovation—in the form View Details
- 08 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue
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by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
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Academics - Health Care
entrepreneurial health care ventures that respond to the massive opportunities created by the escalating cost and uneven quality and access of health care systems globally. Students prepare a business plan,...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,...
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April White
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Firm Performance, Senior Management, and Managerial Representation
While my work on strategic human capital studies how the characteristics of management shape performance, this work in effect focuses on the reverse: how performance shapes a key characteristic of the firm's management
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt rule that limits the maximum amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
capital for entrepreneurs seeking to build businesses and make a difference in their communities. The fund has dual goals of creating social change and the pursuit of reasonable investment returns, allowing...
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- June 2005 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Coach Roy Williams: What Next? (A)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Christoper Chang and Scott Schweitzer
Roy Williams, head coach of the Kansas University Men's Basketball Team, was facing a major decision. The recent resignation of the coach at the University of North Carolina (UNC) had lead to speculation that Williams, a UNC alumnus, would be named as its new coach....
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Resignation and Termination;
Job Offer;
Leading Change;
Management Succession;
Performance Improvement;
Personal Development and Career;
Sports;
Kansas;
North Carolina
DeLong, Thomas J., Christoper Chang, and Scott Schweitzer. "Coach Roy Williams: What Next? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 405-070, June 2005. (Revised October 2005.)
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
face a decoupling risk that leads them to be more likely to enact substantive actions in situations where they are likely to be monitored. 2014 Working Paper The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and View Details
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
QT has resource groups where employees regularly get together and discuss problems and improvement opportunities. Many of these opportunities end up being implemented across the chain. "It's amazing how...
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- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
Apple debuted new privacy measures that blocked law enforcement from accessing its customers’ data. “There is an opportunity to do work that is infused with moral purpose.” He said shareholders who were only looking for a return on...
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by Avery Forman
- April 2004 (Revised November 2004)
- Background Note
Why Complex Systems Fail
Operationally excellent organizations create competitive opportunities for themselves that are not available to their peers. One view of the manager's competitive dilemma is to pick the right position for his organization, differentiating it, for example, as a...
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Spear, Steven J., and Bryce LaPierre. "Why Complex Systems Fail." Harvard Business School Background Note 604-083, April 2004. (Revised November 2004.)
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
chicken and value-added chicken products in Pakistan. This position has been built through a strategy of vertical integration, product innovation, and branding. K&N's has also developed its own chain of...
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Sean Silverthorne