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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
success in China was tough. The country may be huge, Kirkwood advised, but in an elephantine market, it was best to "be a grasshopper." And when it came to payments and accounts receivable - forget credit - "cash equals quality." Joining...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mezuo Nwuneli Their investment firm is transforming the landscape by supporting small- and medium-sized agricultural enterprises. "Changing mindsets among the local populace that 'Made in Nigeria' products, especially food, are high View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
formal models and theory can account for important aspects of software design evolution in large-scale systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-081.pdf From Outsourcing to Global Collaboration: New Ways to Build...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the potential applicant pool? And when you go to some diverse groups, it's actually a much larger number that you're excluding. So for us, this is a skill statement, this is a quality of candidate statement, and this is also a diversity,...
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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
with employees across the company. Reflect, diagnose, and develop a plan of action. What policies and practices should be in place for the post-COVID world? Make yourself and your senior team accountable to the organization and its...
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All Industries
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
change. And they need advice and expertise and skill from outside their own organization to make that happen quicker and with higher quality than they could if they did it on their own. Now, with that sameness, there is a ton of...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
activity for HBS. We've always done quite well relying on our alumni network. But that doesn't mean we can't do better or find more people with the leadership qualities we seek," she observes. One good reason for conducting more...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
which acted essentially as an in-house management consultancy and auditing firm. He personally composed the statutes as to its authority. This was one of the first offices in the world that began a task of standardizing accounting methods...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
was uncomfortable with many of the assumptions being made, because they had a blame-the-victim quality that I didn't like and I didn't identify with. I was trying to speak out about that, and as a sociologist I saw lots of structural...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
necessary? How could he keep people engaged as the nature of the work evolved in some instances to become more predictable? What new systems and processes were needed to ensure a steady output of high quality work? Lebowitz was proud that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Okay.Aguh: But no, no. So a couple pieces of your question. One thing that this administration focused a lot on—and definitely in my time with the Department focused on—was job quality and good jobs being a big part of this. And you’ll...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
contextual features influence the expression of these needs, sustaining or undermining the positive emotional experiences that fuel work engagement. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53578 December 2017 Mayo Clinic Proceedings:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus Richardson are talented individuals who...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local government agencies have created...
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the...
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Martha Lagace