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- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
according to new research. The researchers found that the students facing temptation were more apt to make mistakes and were less productive By banning web surfing, employers are essentially asking their workers to resist temptation until...
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by Michael Blanding
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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - MBA
and PRIDE. WHAT DOES BEING FIRST-GENERATION, LOW-INCOME (FGLI) MEAN TO YOU? Norquata Allen, Class of 2023 Being a first-generation college and graduate student represents sadness for me. I believe education to be essential to quality of...
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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations - Alumni
justice concerns in the past year? b. Have you developed specific metrics to measure your progress? Additional Resources for Managers Discover why diversity is an essential component of a successful team — and what you can do to foster...
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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
So we do our own catering, and we’re finding partners to give us space. I have 200 wine glasses in my garage!” Weintraub adds that a few “really dedicated people” are essential to getting things off the ground, as well as a plan for...
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
check—ideally a patient can be injected with Moderna's mRNA, which offers directions, or a specific recipe, to individual cells, which then use it to produce the protein or antibody needed to tackle the problem. In other words, mRNA Therapeutics offers a little help to...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
different effects or methods of action, trials essentially consist of monitoring patients for proper dosage, effectiveness, and side effects. Medical devices, meanwhile, can differ from each other in almost every respect, including how...
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- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
a successful family as it is in building a successful business. He disagrees strongly with the widely-cited concept known as agency theory, which essentially posits that people work in accordance to how you pay them, and that external...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
life. Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It: 8 Essentials to Enhance Your Leadership Impact at Work, Home and Anywhere Else That Needs You By Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer (AMP 153, 1997) Wiley The world needs positive leadership...
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- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is essential to understanding his development as a manager. Until 1945, anti-Semitism placed...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
clusters are most prevalent in advanced economies, you say that they're one of the essential steps for countries moving in that direction. How are clusters nurtured in emerging nations? A: Many developing countries have free-trade zones...
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Re: Michael E. Porter
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Yaping Wang
advance planning. It's essential to be engaging to be a leader – I want to be more comfortable with that. The section experience helps. It's a safe environment where everyone can take risks. I feel so welcome and included!" The...
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- 26 May 2015
- Blog Post
5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn
Each course is taught by evaluating and discussing the decisions and/or actions of a protagonist in a case. A case is essentially a story about a business problem. Each case contains background information, a business situation, and...
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- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
data-driven, fact-based, analytical decision-making. The problem is that data are only available about the past. If you're trying to be innovative, and you have this data-driven mindset, you can't go forward. So experimenting essentially...
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- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
glorification of over-commitment trickled down to the masses? Keinan and her co-authors recreated such “humblebrags” (Humblebrags are essentially brags veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag) in mock Facebook...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
plastic animals, roach tablets, eye shadow, ashtrays, toilet brushes, pottery crocodiles, and all the other items essential to a constantly growing GNP.” (The Dreadful Lemon Sky, 1974) “Who am I to keep from putting my shoulder to the...
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- 2008
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The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
classmates essentially engaged in medical tourism—they would simply bundle up the care they needed, make a trip to their country of origin, and take care of it. India was certainly one of those countries I was aware of due to my own...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Mahindra. “From the corporate center, we provide services—financial skills and help with branding, for instance—and monitor the financial targets very closely, but we are essentially allowing professional executives to do their job.” To...
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