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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
by Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005) and Prameela Kalive (Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.) At a crossroads in February 2001, the shareholders of Zansar Technologies were waiting for a maiden dividend, and profit margins were sliding. A new...
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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
organizational context, with the right leadership, a group can amplify the diverse talents and ideas of its individual members. Leaders Foster Discovery-driven Learning Innovation usually arises from an often lengthy period of conscious...
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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case directly. When told by the dean that no one would be admitted...
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- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success. Those who do this most effectively involve their families in work decisions and activities. They also vigilantly manage their own human capital, endeavoring to give both work and home their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With revenues growing at 9% annually over the five-year View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
Fellowship, please wait until the outcome of that process to complete and submit your loan reduction application (the loan reduction application asks if you have received an HBS Search Fund Fellowship). Application Deadlines Applications...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
that it raised more than $2 million as part of a capital campaign, thereby erasing a debt accrued in a period that included not only the post-Katrina flooding but also an economy that cratered in 2008. On the way back to the French...
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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
excess returns on TIPS as compared to nominal Treasuries over the period 1999-2009. Liquidity-adjusted breakeven inflation appears stable, suggesting stable inflation expectations over our sample period. We find predictability in both...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
only five more minutes has gone by while you’re waiting for this awful thing to end. That person’s not going to be productive. You have a productivity loss for people who are on the job. We have to remember almost a quarter of kids live...
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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
office employees from their work, surfing the web is arguably the most irresistible time-waster of all. In order to deal with that problem, many companies either prohibit Internet use during working hours, or closely monitor employees' web activity. This means workers...
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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
have to convince 10 other people before I can do it. Steven Torok, Class of 1977. First meaningful job was actually before business school, out of college, waiting to go to business school. I had taken a degree from a liberal arts college...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
provide evidence that both target difficulty and monetary incentives motivate managers to a) undertake more carbon reducing projects that generate more carbon savings, and b) invest more money in such projects, without increasing the average payback View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes circle the airport, each View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Change, and Making Good Things Happen By Zoe Chance (DBA 2011) Random House You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, follow the rules, wait your turn, not make waves. Yale professor Zoe Chance will show...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
post-AIPA patent applications experience a sharp increase in the probability of licensing after 18-month publication, and, on average, are 18 percentage points less likely than pre-AIPA patent applications to wait until allowance to be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and third, by experience, which is bitterest. In your career, you will experience all three of these elements. When you receive your MBA, you will have completed an intense period of the first element: reflection. Learn to intellectually...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
have a big gap in your work history. Let’s say you are in your late 20s and you’ve had a collection of part-time jobs and then periods of unemployment. It’s very hard to put together a strategy for getting back into the workplace. Often...
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