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- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
accounts is also the telltale sign of the desire to impress by expressing—to control other minds through erudition, wit, and eloquence. We can seize others "by their minds" with our justificatory strategies. We get them to see...
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by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
reactions to the tragedy and to share emotional support. Food and clothing drives were organized on campus, and the School set up a matching fund for contributions made by students, faculty, and staff to the American Red Cross Liberty...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal confessions, and ongoing View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
workforce to try to get her family organized and in order. Do you think those were red flags for the VCs? Though the VCs didn't say it, they had to have been wondering, "If things go wrong at home, will...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
look at ways in which the main agriculture challenges in the country were being addressed by both the government and foreign donors. I was knee-deep in documents, sitting outside on a typically breezy, eerily silent Kigali evening. As I read through the reports, my...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
initiative, both in terms of technology as well as the buy-in needed from various agencies. "Fourth, to ask executive participants in my class how Data.gov should reconcile both its public-citizen aspects of accountability and its...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of resumes. Experienced eyes can point out immediate red flags and give you specific areas you may want to probe for a particular candidate. Invite an investor to help diversify an otherwise homogeneous...
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by Julia Austin
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
activities. Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Periodical:The Accounting Review (forthcoming)...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
Following competitors allows you to position yourself against them. Observing analyst valuations and forecasts raises red flags internally when the market has different views on your company's performance...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511068-PDF-ENG ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability Alnoor Ebrahim and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Case 311-004 As a global NGO working in 45...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
"customer-orientation." That is a buzzword that is tiresome to hear when it comes from most organizations. Bezos and Amazon, however, believe it and practice it. Accounts of internal meetings and their obsession with the...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Advertising Ephemera Collection. Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, olvwork88219Here a Native man in a feathered headdress and buckskin lies prone in the grass, waiting, while a herd of antelope advances toward the View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Relief Turkish Philanthropy Funds Red Crescent (Turkey) (Syria) HBS COMMUNITY NEWS MARCH 29 Hakan Polatoğlu (AMP 178, 2010), board member at the Eskisehir-based food producer Eti, notes that his company has been producing a special...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Azmi, famous actress and political activist; Shinta Kamdani, CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group; and Dr. Manu Chandaria, chair and CEO of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft. Young Indian woman sorting red chilli peppers,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
our data. Finally, building on our model, we find that differences in management practices account for about 30% of cross-country total factor productivity differences. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
distance with only a 5 percent loss. One of Skelly’s biggest challenges is the red tape involved in convincing residents and various levels of government that more power lines are a good thing. “We think the way to get this done is by...
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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential dimensions of an underdog biography: external disadvantage, and passion and determination. We demonstrate...
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Martha Lagace