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- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
effectiveness of a common educational methodology aimed at these employees. Commonly called “social norms marketing,” the method essentially shows people what their peers are doing to induce them into good behaviors. Beshears pointed out...
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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't...
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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune...
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by Julia Hanna
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
survey of 200 mostly Fortune 500 companies found an "irreversible process" of traditional white-collar jobs being sent to Asia, said Arie Lewin, a professor and director of the Center for International Business Education and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
face-to-face leadership and communication skills. In Evolve, I also write about the importance of building coalitions and of leadership as community organizing, finding your supporters, bringing your supporters on board, and then gradually using them to help View Details
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by Staff
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
that. The fourth piece was executive education. Two years ago we launched an executive education program specifically for future leaders in pharma and biotech. And we've run it for the second year in a row this year. It's a very...
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- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
attention to the question of when to mix qualitative and quantitative data in a single research paper. We discuss implications of the framework for educating new field researchers. Cooperation and Equity in the River Sharing Problem...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program....
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Carlile Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no. 2 (2009) Abstract Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan 2006). Our research and experience...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was a new concept, a six-year...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
stems from the Catholic Worker movement's personalist tradition, which means that Haley House staff and volunteers work intensely with small numbers of people as a way of trying to create deeper change in them. Haley House launched the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
workforce, a lot of companies have eliminated the accumulated wisdom of older workers." Saira Somani-Mendelin points to another possible cause: The failure to preserve deep smarts "... goes much deeper than the bottom line. It may View Details
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by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
social acceptability of entrepreneurship, has the Internet played a similar role in catalyzing venture capital activity overseas? It has, although it's still in the infancy stage. The greatest change stems from U.S. venture capital firms...
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by Staff
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against poverty View Details
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by George C. Lodge
- 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
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
and benefits and that bundled legislation is valued more than the sum of its parts. Study 2 shows this finding stems from a diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains. Study 3 extends our findings to policies involving costs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to market overheating, increased borrower demand for cov-lite loans, or a rise in creditor coordination costs. The last hypothesis View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles Authors:Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein Publication:American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings (forthcoming) Abstract Cyclicality in the supply of business credit has been the focus of a considerable amount of...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Education By: Snook, Scott, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50349 forthcoming Administrative Science Quarterly Environmental Demands and the Emergence of...
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Sean Silverthorne