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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
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they develop a history there. Maybe they learn how to break the code on the specific requirements. And then they get a privileged place at the job fair or privileged dates on the recruiting calendar. And then that whole process just...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Leverage the Power of Alumni Networks in Recruiting
talent pipeline will inevitably expand. Additionally, leveraging employees to spread awareness of opportunities at your firm can be an effective way to recruit students. Last year, our office conducted a...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
By: Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work examining the effects of having the government as a minority shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly...
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Ownership Stake;
State Ownership;
Private Ownership;
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Business and Government Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Banking Industry;
Brazil
Lazzarini, Sergio G., and Aldo Musacchio. "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-073, January 2011. (**Winner of the Prize for the Best Paper Presented at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 2011.)
- 2014
- Case
Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Siqun Yang and Meihua Shen
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Siqun Yang, and Meihua Shen. "Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County." 2014.
- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
model, our hypotheses, and our assumptions. 5. Be patient really patient. One of the most difficult lessons we learned was that things take a very long time to develop and transpire. Whether it’s designing and View Details
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we conducted a randomized field study View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
described her organization as “mission-focused, values-based (contained in the Girl Scouts Promise and the Law), and demographics-driven” (her code word for diversity). She once described to me a teeter-totter, writing a “$24 million...
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Re: James L. Heskett
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way up to computer coding skills. So there were five levels, sort of the mid-level was basic workforce productivity. So as we go forward, we see an increasing opportunity to expand what we’re doing in that...
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an opportunity to change fundamentally their cost structures at the same time.Kerr: Ok, so tell us a little bit next about the design of the survey. Who were you trying to reach? How did you conduct the...
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want. In a world where we can search at our fingertips and plug in mom with dementia in this zip code and get a list of memory care facilities, getting that—what EAPs refer to as resources and referrals as...
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Gallup in the area of workforce actually started with George Gallup, our founder, who back in the 1950s was conducting some research on global polling, but also some research on centurions, folks who lived...
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Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadioPlayer.fmAudacyCastboxPocket...
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internal training that’s required in any given year, whether that’s the obvious things we all do, like code of business conduct, etc., as well as skills transformation-related training courses that are made...
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- 06 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups
thrown-together coding skills, my network, and sheer luck. I landed my first job as a software engineering consultant at Red Hat, and launched into a new world of software engineering. Two years later, I...
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- May, 2019
- Article
Who Would You Like to Work With?: Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems
By: Diego Gomez-Zara, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch and Noshir Contractor
People and organizations are increasingly using online platforms to assemble teams. In response, HCI researchers have theorized frameworks and created systems to support team assembly. However, little is known about how users search for and choose teammates on these...
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Gomez-Zara, Diego, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor. "Who Would You Like to Work With? Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems." Art. 659. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (May, 2019).
- 2018
- Working Paper
What Is Your Problem? The Importance of ‘Problem Storming’ for Crossing Knowledge Boundaries
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
In this study, I focus on the emergent processes and practices enacted when using crowdsourcing to solve R&D problems that experts are challenged with. While the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on the online process, this study looks at the full process that takes...
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management. What share of a Fortune 500 companies’ business do you expect will need to be conducted in this platform? We know it's very high-value, but you think about how far down in the stack View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadioPlayer.fmAudacyCastboxPocket...
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- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
a strange human tendency to value effort independent of outcome," says Norton. "If you appear to be working hard and sweating, people will assume you are doing a good job." There's an app for that Buell and Norton put that...
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by Michael Blanding