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- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
professionals wanted to do their part to make them the last. Starting the Anti-Racism Fund It was from these deep discussions around how they each could help solve a centuries old problem, once again brought to the forefront of national...
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- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
efficient and cheaper methods that undermine quality audits. The audit committee must have the leadership, independence and information to oversee the auditors and their relationship with the management.— Jay Lorsch This race for profitability and the failure of many...
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
racial injustice of this kind, but the six friends and talented professionals wanted to do their part to make them the last. Starting the Anti-Racism Fund It was from these deep discussions around how they each could help solve a...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
familiar with private enterprise and with strong ties with the business community, rather than a traditional academic. That’s how it all began, and the reason why they reached out to me.” On the value of the case method: “The case-study...
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Educational Services
- 25 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry
This is a repost from the Alumni Stories blog. Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
Incentive Plan By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/ August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
services, and reassessing the templates for Executive Education and MBA reunions. Committee members made significant progress during the year, and their efforts resulted in new lifelong learning programs tied to reunions, a commitment to...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
those skills, he says, gave him “the general management training and opportunities I knew I needed to pursue a strong leadership career in business.” Along with lifelong ties to classmates, he says courses such as The Moral Leader, taught...
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Deborah Blagg
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance, published April 11 in...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
from the hundreds of youth and adult state associations, clubs, and professional leagues, offering his comprehensive platform to transform soccer in America: investing more in world-class national teams, growing participation at the youth...
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- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
a CEO's incentive to perform is in large part tied to what happens when he or she does not perform—a risk of getting ousted. But aligning a board to say we're going to start looking for someone else is a lot more complicated when the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major...
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- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46882 Friends with Close Ties: Asset or Liability? Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Mutual Funds in China By: Gao, Xinzi, T.J. Wong, Lijun Xia, and Gwen Yu Abstract—When fund managers have close...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)
developing new programs and creating the institutional research function. These three projects are aimed to make Juilliard the best version it can be to past, current and future students, which ties directly to the future of performing...
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- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
“M” word, was positioned to become a leader and advocate for women by commissioning a study to better understand the experience of working professionals experiencing menopause. Our 2022 Menopause in the Workplace survey included 2,000...
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harvard Education Press, 2007 Abstract Teaching by the case method has the potential to affect profoundly the way that teachers, students, and professionals approach the learning process. This companion volume includes detailed teaching...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families and use their MBA skills in ways...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic...
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Deborah Blagg
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
of Peripheral Ties: Maintaining Status When Firms Lose Resources Authors:Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Bharat N. Anand Abstract This paper examines conditions under which high-status firms can retain their positions, even if they lose resources. Firms are considered...
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Martha Lagace