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- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
real good data, maybe at all. And to the degree that we have it, in ways that are so aggregated that it's kind of meaningless. It is these normed averages that don't mean a whole lot. What we're hoping to do is to take the data that's...
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- 09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self
that person is leading? Amy Jen Su: I think when we're in leader B mode and it becomes our operating norm or our center of gravity, that's where the “watch out” really is. When a leader is more and more often finding themselves in that...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
imaginable form of government, all others excepted. Maybe the same applies to market capitalism. Uwe Lembke (MBA ’61) Saint Germain-en-Laye, France Beyond Class Notes Usually I just scan our class notes, where Norm Whitaker (PMD 17, 1969)...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
other organization, is actually part of a community. And it cannot differ in terms of behavioral norms from the community you’re operating in. Like any American business school at the time, the only thing that Harvard could teach me was...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
by a punishing cycle of overwork, whether studying for college entrance exams or following the “996” norm of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. “I will slack off at work I am a blunt sword to boycott consumerism,” declared a...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
based on their intuitions and gut feelings. Soltes provides insights into why some executives saw the immediate effects of misconduct as positive, why executives often don’t feel the emotions (angst, guilt, shame) most people would expect, and how acceptable View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Keeping the Beat
to hopping on Zoom. Everyone is used to hopping on Instagram Live or Facebook Live, or these virtual experiences. It’s the new norm and people are comfortable with it. They have better Internet connections. They’re charging their phones....
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (DBA 1977), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School’s required general management course....
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and T-shirts. Going against the corporate norm is nothing new for Scher, who shunned the usual perks and salary an HBS graduate typically commands in favor of the glamourless, risky, and low-paying job of starting up a company that wasn't...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception....
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
book on it.” MARCH 18 Khan Academy founder Sal Khan (MBA 2003) announced plans to help students and parents navigate the new norm of distance learning. Read more about his work here. MARCH 16 Moderna, led by CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Leonard M. Harlan (MBA '61, DBA '65), president of Castle Harlan, Inc., who has been a guest lecturer in Poorvu's class several times over the years. Part of this understanding is learning how to make deals in a fragmented industry where nonstandard pricing is the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
than using more explicit cosmetics. In Shanghai, two women shade themselves as they walk past an ad for a skin-lightening cream. Powered globally by marketing, media, and entertainment, commercial beauty ideals may challenge local cultural View Details