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- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used. Calibrated simulations using...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Returns is a way for me to state my deep conviction that any organization, even a tax collection agency, can serve its stakeholders at higher levels than it ever imagined — if its leaders resolutely and passionately set out to do so. What...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Yesterday, President Donald Trump endorsed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan proposed by Republican United States lawmakers to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as...
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- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
and secondary education in the United States? How do you bring innovation into schools? How do you help schools get better results out of reading programs, out of other things? “The premise of Collaborating Minds is that experts from...
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- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
than 14 million people employed in personal selling in the United States alone represent about 10 percent of the entire country's labor force, according to the US Department of Labor. In addition, companies...
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- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
stories that highlight the impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and communities around the world. The effort to engage alumni began in Boston on April 26, 2014 and will extend around the world over the next 18 months as Dean Nohria and select faculty...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
changed the world at breathtaking speed. From that perspective, it seemed “inadequate and unacceptable,” as he puts it, that so little progress had been made to treat a dreaded disease identified more than a century ago and now afflicting five million people in the...
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Linda Kush
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBSAA of Israel Sponsors Middle East Outreach
population of just six million, Israel now has more stocks listed on the Nasdaq than any other country except the United States and Canada. And as the peace process continues, business opportunities in the...
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Craig Husa
CourtLink Corporation (acquired by LexisNexis) and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer. MBA from HBS, BS Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Currently, Craig is also the...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
much more advanced Down Under than Up Top in the United States, and that’s the inspiration behind Barrow’s apparel company, Coolibar (www.coolibar.com). While ordinary clothing does offer a modicum of protection, “Coolibar’s clothing is...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
Geneva. Despite this heightened international presence and frequent travel abroad, Stewart will remain active with several court and bar association committees and trade organizations, and will continue as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School. "The life of a...
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Garry Emmons
- Portrait Project
Ann Chao
orphan who had almost become my little sister. Her name was Chun Yu. I met Chun Yu at a foster home for blind children in China. She had been abandoned as an infant and neglected for years at a state institution before moving to the...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Services Inc. — and play fast-pitch softball for the defending national champions, the Raybestos Cardinals. That team drew me to Connecticut as much as the fact that the state was a good place to start a health plan. Those of us who set...
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- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
demonstrate the catalytic role of committed state elites, who introduced incremental reforms over three decades. These officials operated beneath the political radar, layering small-scale initiatives on top of the mainstream school...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
application — and a patent disclosure. They made a fantastic final pre-sentation about science, potential markets, and commercialization strategies. Didn’t one of the projects win an entrepreneurship competition? Each year, MIT, local business groups, and View Details
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
What is missing in mainstream political debate? And what do you envision as a more effective position for the United States given current world conditions? A: American political debate is increasingly...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
New York magazine lacks in profit and prospects, it makes up for in the social cachet it can bestow on the owner in the media and cultural capital of the United States,” opined the New York Times (December 17, 2003). Well, maybe so, but...
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