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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
going to have to use our strength in numbers to change the national la-la-land conversation on retirement-income security.” —Elizabeth White (MBA 1988), on navigating the financial challenges she faced, from Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and View Details
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Julie Ann Haldeman
“Call – good news and bad news.” [SMS from Mom; 4:56 p.m.] “Bad news: I have breast cancer,” my mom states when I call back. “Good news: My hair will finally evolve past the ‘80s anchorwoman hairdo.” I close my eyes and inhale deeply,...
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- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Mark Zuckerberg delayed action and side-stepped responsibility. Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s most successful banks. But then its sales...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
rebuilding Iraq. However, I was disappointed that the article did not include a photograph of President Bush delivering a fake turkey to the troops on Thanksgiving or in his flyboy suit in front of the grand “Mission Accomplished” banner....
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
others. It helped me see that everyone’s behavior is purposeful.” ON LEADERSHIP “The most important thing about leadership is character. You can’t fake character. Integrity is a binary state: Either you have it or you don’t.” CURRENT...
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Library Databases Ask Us Special Collections Fast Answers All Services Hours Plan Your Visit Exhibits Hollis Working Knowledge HBS Home About Academic Programs Alumni Faculty & Research Baker Library Campaign Harvard Business Review Initiatives View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Best Employees Many companies hand out awards such as "employee of the month," but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best employees altogether. Power Posing: Fake...
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
statements, Facebook has lobbied against further regulation by government, typically ranking in the top 10 US spenders on lobbying efforts. What’s the solution? To Facebook’s credit, it has been partnering with government and nongovernmental organizations to weed out...
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by George Riedel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable...
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- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Brierley Professor of Business Administration. “But even when firms never guarantee that consumers will choose the winner, consumers infer an implicit contract and are upset when that contract is violated.” Norton and John examine the pitfalls of those implicit...
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- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
commented that, “I would any day prefer self moderation to empty haughtiness.” Nilgun Yetis described them as “very talented and wholehearted people.” GuestReader put it this way: “Lack of certainty in one’s ability to succeed is reasonable at the outset of a View Details
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by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
concerned about cash, and employees worry about their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, says professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your strategies to the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
Imagine you walk into a shop where you don’t know the prices. Maybe it’s a Turkish souk, redolent with smells of saffron and turmeric. Or maybe it’s a New Hampshire antique store, full of dusty shelves of enticing oddities. You pick out...
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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
negative shock to global growth, that would be bad news for everyone. I don’t believe this to be the base case unless there is a real hard landing. Q: Which industries and nations will feel this slowdown most acutely and how are they...
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- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural adaptability of the person...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
American vacation, Wall Drug was already a kind of Wild West theme park. “My dad built an experience for people to take away with them,” Hustead says. “It involves education, entertainment, aesthetics, and escapism — you can’t fake it.”...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
another 30,000 visit the company’s elderly day care facilities; and 2,500 people now have the ability to stay home at the end of life like Sato-san, instead of resorting to an overcrowded and more expensive hospital setting. Desperate for solutions and seeing the...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Headlined News”, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, as well as various other news outlets. Philomena Essed Philomena Essed is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies at...
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