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- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
manufacturing in this country might look a lot more attractive.) By subsidizing other industries so generously, we have tilted the scales away from manufacturing. Thus, its decline is not completely a result of “natural” market forces. There are some popular arguments...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Books
Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally
terms of knowledge, managers need to become more legally literate so they can communicate effectively with counsel. This includes understanding their fiduciary duties and the circumstances under which companies are liable for the actions...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that any plan of View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
make the next crisis easier to manage but also to ensure that the ongoing operation of our health care system is improved in a fundamental manner.” Leveraging Technology to Gain an Edge In a Working Knowledge article, five faculty members...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
always in search of, is action. And the action that I'm seeing must include wealth sharing of some kind, must include the mention of money. I'm a businessman who also has a background in Black history. And I've melded the two together...
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- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
their place, it was not the way I wanted to have an impact,” she says. Leger then shifted her focus to social enterprise and the concept of “business at the base of the pyramid,” realizing that she needed more business knowledge in order...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to address the increasingly complex issues faced by school principals on the front lines of K–12 public education, offering them strategies and actionable practices to improve outcomes for...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
string of concussion-level hits. And NFL team reports suggest head injuries may actually be on the increase. This new research push underlies a class action lawsuit against the NFL, recently settled for $765 million, pending a judge's...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage
the attendees usable knowledge and actionable insights, now and in the future. “The networking aspect is also important. These are unique communities of proven leaders, and the service academies want their...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Association, and the Asia Business Club provided attendees with an opportunity to engage in lively discourse, thoughtful reflection, and gala celebrations. AASU Conference: A Call to Action "Leading the Restoration: Black Business...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans
(MBA 1997) Founder and CEO, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi, India A UNIFIED FRONT "Businesses tend to support individual programs or schools. The impact could be much larger if corporations partnered to take collective action on a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
accommodate mobile employees. This book arms managers with the knowledge they need to become more effective virtual leaders, giving advice on what actions to take to increase far-flung employees’ dedication...
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- 26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
good? And if we believe profit, purpose and social returns are not in conflict, how do we put that theory into action as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, or investor?” Cissy Chen (MBA 2019), who helped organize the event for the HBS...
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
leading a class of 32 HBS students in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) on the Tech Startup Ecosystem in the UK and Europe. The featured panel of UK-based HBS alumni entrepreneurs, who shared actionable insights on how to overcome...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
in your business career that you have the courage to build a bridge between knowledge and action. Tire industry executives knew at least in 1972, probably before, that they had to change their business radically or leave it. But, in...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
That’s a huge amount of work.” Bohmer has firsthand knowledge of the issues faced by MHCD participants. A physician, he practiced medicine in New Zealand and England, helped establish a surgical hospital in Sudan, and served as clinical...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
Class of 1925 February 1940 The first known casualty among the alumni of the Business School during the present war was Lt. Claus von Bohlen und Halbach, son of the head of the Krupp works in Essen, Germany. He was an aviator in the German Air Force and was killed in...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the...
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