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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
healthcare channels to sometimes even arranging the resources just to keep life going. Is that a fair characterization?Jurist-Rosner: That's exactly right. Yeah. And so, it's a range of areas where we support families, but what's unique about our model is that we...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
biggest beauty brand, was worth $11.3 billion in 2008. Unilever’s Dove and P&G’s Pantene, in second and third place, had sales of $5.3 billion and $4.5 billion, respectively . Equally striking are the wide variations between countries in...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
and the result was a stunning new campus resource that soon proved its worth to the School. Former Deans Kim Clark and John McArthur, with HBS professor emeritus Michael Jensen, at a three-day faculty symposium, “Breaking New Ground,”...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learning is quite good. And if I don’t need to be on a campus, and I don’t want to actually be in a classroom, et cetera, even if I want the social engagement with all of my fellow students of similar ages, et cetera, I can actually have...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and economic conditions in recent years have changed dramatically and altered the way...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
facing several acute problems: a conflict between his director of marketing and his director of field operations; a dramatic increase in prices by a key supplier; and a major strategic alliance that does not seem to be moving forward. Lapdesk is a for-profit View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
university presses. As volunteer vice chairman of New York–based Do Something, Inc., Dave Mazza is one of many classmates to put his skills to work in the community. Dave combined his career's worth of executive search contacts with his...
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Desmond Wong
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
img.left { float:left; padding-right:8px; } As we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month (LHM) and the 20th anniversary of the Latino Student Organization (LASO) at Harvard Business School (HBS), we cannot help but feel excited about what’s to come this Fall semester. 2020...
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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
information. Social networking on Facebook would be of little value if users provided no personal information, and digital assistants such as Apple's Siri require access to consumers' location, contact lists, and calendar to be helpful. A...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
at a time when there are many social protests calling for more spending on education and health care. However one needs to keep things in perspective. The unemployment rate, for example, is 6 per cent. Compare that to 7.5 per cent in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a degree. There’s a big financial barrier there, so that hampered social mobility. But also, there’s a big academic barrier that doesn’t need to exist. Right? Actually, there’s no correlation between academics and job performance, so why...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
firms, less is known about the more complex choices faced by hybrid organizations that balance social and economic objectives and curate symbolic, values-based portfolios. By process-tracing original interview data from three leading...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
continue to define their economic relationships with lots of other states. These were really important moments, which then led to decades' worth of economic policy priorities. So some of the effects that we see now are lingering...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
minimize the impact of taxes on their investors’ returns. The assignment was complicated as KSW had different categories of investors (a sovereign wealth fund, pension funds, and high net worth individuals) each of which had different tax...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
insight into how firms can realize the benefits of empowerment strategies while mitigating their risks. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54820 forthcoming Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pettiness in View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne