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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did...
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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
decision-making process. “When you say things like, ‘It was just my gut feel,’ you don’t have to explain your decision,” explains Huang. “It provides a cover for discrimination.” Faced with these and other challenges during her fundraising effort, Feinzaig turned to...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
launching a paid virtual internship experience and debuting “office hours” with investors for Black women founders. “I asked the founders in the Alliance, ‘What do you need now?’ ” Feinzaig says. “It was the exact same thing they have...
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Management Jeffrey Rayport Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change General Management Gerald Chertavian,Brian Trelstad Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) Business, Government & the...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
deliberately incomplete, allowing for many possible options. Students are normally assigned one case per class. Preparation is guided by assignment questions, which have become increasingly detailed over time. Thirty years ago, the focus was on action, and View Details
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by David A. Garvin
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
experiments in which participants waited in virtual queues, revealed that waiting in last place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues. After controlling for other factors,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
options across thirteen studies involving diverse samples (executives, law/business/medical students, adults) and contexts (public policy, business, medicine). These distortions appear to primarily reflect decision biases rather than View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
social sector, and it can guide businesses in bringing together the various actors in their ecosystems to help remedy some of the world's most urgent problems. In the process, companies will find economic opportunities that their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
crucial decision, he saw it through, even when virtually everything around him seemed stacked against such a commitment. This adherence was not the result of stubbornness or self-righteousness. Rather, it came from the care that Lincoln...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
evolution of the organization’s attempts to grow its social impact in Brazil and beyond—including a loose network of sister organizations, social franchising, licensing agreements, and government adoption....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board of directors can best further stockholders' interests by (a) selecting managerial personnel who are...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that are transforming work. Those include the way work gets done, automation and remote work, and the context in which it takes place amid rising social tensions and economic inequality. As we close out 2021, workers are quitting in...
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FY19 Baker Library Annual Report
library user, occasional visitor to our virtual resources, yet to utilize any of our products or services, or somewhere in between, I welcome you to this inaugural compilation of the KLS Annual Report. Deb WallaceExecutive...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
notion of transitory employees—who are virtually employed by the company on a full- or heavily part-time basis for a project—that come and go, it swims against everything—from the way managers experience controlling resources, what kind...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
start in butcher scales and time clocks and movement through virtually every aspect of technological development of the 20th century. While IBM doesn’t break out Watson’s revenue, the unit falls within IBM’s “strategic imperatives”: the...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
the explosive growth of virtually every other major venture market around the globe. Yet for every successful public intervention spurring entrepreneurial activity there are many failed efforts, wasting untold billions in taxpayer...
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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
transportation is virtually not usable for anyone in the middle class or above. And so those are very challenging parts of being in Lagos, but I keep saying that we have to straddle between the future we envision and the world we...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
caregiving responsibilities during the pandemic?Fuller: It’s clear that, as both caregiving responsibilities became more significant for a lot of people under Covid—for example, maybe having their parents move in with them, or very importantly, having school out of...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC,...
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Martha Lagace
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Art Nature Business
Artifacts Collection. Virtual Tour HENRY P. HUNTCutting Ice at Spy Pond, Arlington, Massachusetts, 1859Oil on canvasGift of Frederic Tudor to the Business Historical Society, 1934HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, 1934.2This painting by...
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