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- 25 Apr 2024
- News
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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Marlous van Waijenburg: 2023: Invited as Guest Editor, Special Issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery, Business History Review 97, no. 2 (Summer 2023), with Anne Ruderman. 2022...
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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
linked to the specifics of the downsides of getting it wrong,” Grushka-Cockayne says. Use history for confirmation Organizations serious about improving their forecasting abilities need to do better at tracking past results. While it’s easy to find sources that View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51739 October 3, 2016 Harvard Business Review Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
depended not on the topic but on the ideology of the listener. (Participants were asked to judge statements on either transgender or immigration policy, for example.) Because politically correct labels are often applied to groups that...
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by Kristen Senz
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-081.pdf Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration Authors:Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee Abstract Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to...
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Carmen Nobel
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor Laura Alfaro + More Info – Less Info Fueled by a series of recent political events and actors, anti-globalization has been growing. From the rise of political platforms pinning blame on openness to imports and immigration to the...
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- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
students were welcomed into the program, Daniel Tong, Henry Tao, and Jenny Gao, and we spoke with them about their experience. Tell us a little about yourself and what your interest in climate related issues are. Jenny Gao: I’m originally...
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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
1990s to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem that could harness its business-minded immigrant population. Strategic investment had given rise to creative events and spaces, like the international Art Basel fair in Miami, new performing...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Almost fifty years ago, nineteen-year-old Andy Grove stepped off a boat in New York City, a poor immigrant from Hungary who barely escaped Nazi occupation. A decade later he co-founded Intel, the chipmaker that would help invent the PC...
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- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a path to the American dream. Traditionally, View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get at the View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
“The idea of opening America’s borders to creative, entrepreneurial immigrants is attractive. H1B is not, in my view, the correct vehicle for this. I would rather that the country revamp its immigration...
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- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
country. “I was appointed to the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in Australia. This department now manages our borders, issues the millions of visas in our...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982531 2006 pub How to Negotiate with VCs By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—VC-entrepreneur partnership agreements often contain flaws that become highly damaging as the parties come up against issues of power,...
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Anna Secino