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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the person directly responsible for a specific area or product line, influenced decisions at least as much as the head of the organization. I had been unable to find anyone at HBS willing to even consider the validity of my insight, but...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individuals to whom you are speaking or writing to begin thinking, 'You know, maybe this guy . . . does have a valid point.' " From Pareto's optimal outcomes to Plato's Republic, the authors draw on academic research, classical...
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- 18 Oct 2016
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Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
only four percent of venture capital goes to female-led companies. “People feel more comfortable working for a man in many cases,” she said. “Men can be aggressive; have a crazy vision with no ideas. She needs to have 10 spreadsheets behind her to View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
to indicate competence at the young firm, thereby validating it and its potential for firm-level success," she says. Higgins and Gulati began their research by documenting the career histories of top managers from Boston-area biotech...
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Judith A. Ross
- 28 May 2014
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Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners
things so far in the history of Khan Academy. This validates us, not just, ‘Hey, here’s this nice thing that might be helpful for you to learn.’ This is going to be systemically important. “The College Board has recognized—they have...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table
think that's a valid argument in 2013." Descriptions of life after HBS reveal a stubborn consistency from 1962 to 2012: the reality that women continue to bear the brunt of work-family trade-off decisions. And classroom discussions in a...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
in a sequential way—one individual, then another, and so on—you dramatically increase the likelihood that you're going to end up with discriminatory hiring practices. You're more likely to let your biases take over and to use stereotypes rather than View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
almost managerial malpractice if you don't make crowdsourcing part of your toolkit." What about the fear of losing the ability to monetize intellectual property (IP)? Those are valid concerns. It really depends on the crowdsourcing...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
annually soared from 62,000 to 177,000. Swamped with about 350,000 patent applications each year, examiners are overwhelmed and unable to devote enough time to check out the validity of each one. And thanks to the CAFC, once a patent is...
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- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
time. It is incredibly validating to see so many of our customers signing up for the monthly VIP membership and, even if they don't buy every month, are always happy to receive our emails and see what we've picked for their showroom. "The...
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- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
interested in data streams and manual trackers. This whole movement must in some ways kind of feel like a validation of what you've been doing. It's interesting. I think that in some ways, absolutely. And it is great to see other people...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go
business principles that are true around the world, but some things that are more context- dependent,” says HBS senior associate dean and director of Research Krishna G. Palepu. “We need to figure out which points are valid worldwide and...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those...
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- 09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
grad Seth Moulton (MBA 2011) of Massachusetts and Republican Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin. “They validated the need for an organization that could provide strategic national support for next-generation veterans and help them win, and for...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
Draper petitioned the state’s attorney general for permission to collect signatures for the measure to be placed on the 2016 ballot, but by September 2014 the 752,685 validated signatures out of about 1.1 million collected (the View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
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Insight: Yenball
and signage in the ballpark, finding a way for Japanese tourists to come on preplanned trips handled by a team subsidiary—those are valid propositions that will make teams money, says Greyser. But they won't be enough by themselves for...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement
nonprofit and social sector. Greg Dees, Kash Rangan, and others were instrumental in this effort, which told students that they could be entrepreneurs. It was validation that it was important and even urgent for them to do so. Nowadays...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
the start-ups I’ve launched, that knowledge helped us, eventually, to build a very successful product. Do you think that iterative approach is best suited to high-tech start-ups, or would it be as valid in another sector? If you believe...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist and hit a total market cap of...
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