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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
reform in China, its causes and its implications, and from the perspective of one private equity play, discussed the issues of corporate governance, conflicts of interest, and the fiduciary duty of corporate managers in an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
a support group for one another as we navigated the joys and challenges of motherhood. The student parent community at Harvard Business School is heavily skewed towards fathers as opposed to mothers, with a 5:1 father to mother ratio....
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
surrounding management of creative ensembles. The topics discussed include: the nature and attainment of mastery (as opposed to technical competence); master and apprentice relationships; the details of collaborative work and workspace;...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
analyzed the experience of workers and employers in the U.S., U.K., and Germany. They present the business case—as opposed to the philanthropic rationale—for hiring hidden workers. They explain how organizations can expand their talent...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
gave us a real sense of the situation and also provided some perspective on how things look now as opposed to fifteen years ago, before they had access to basic services like water and electricity.” “For...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
whose role is to listen to and help resolve employees' work-related problems. It offers perspectives from two business experts who have opposing viewpoints on a family like corporate culture and on whether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
arise. Although she does her best to support and empathize, she also keeps in mind a key lesson that she says took years of perspective to learn: not everyone will be happy all of the time. In other words, don’t fret that there will never...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
“Great Resignation,” but it seems have to be really a multivariate phenomenon with all sorts of different cross currents here. How do you see it, and how is it affecting the labor market in ways that affects Kelly’s operations?Quigley: I think it’s really about a great...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
What was the argument for it being a certificate program as opposed to a degree?Hickey: There were a few aspects of this. One was, frankly, we struggled early on with finding an interested post-secondary partner who was offering a...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
drug development process; threats from biotech and generics competitors; pharmaceutical manufacturing, selling, and marketing; and pharmaceutical consumption in Europe, the third world, and the U.S. Merck and Pfizer are analyzed in-depth and a contrast between Merck as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
deal with. I'm not saying that people aren't upset for good reasons. I'm just saying that we’ve lost perspective over how bad things are and therefore we are contemplating really bad ideas that will only serve to exacerbate the woes of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
vehemently opposed to involvement in "the establishment," they had chosen to come to business school, an indication that their managerial ambitions were deeply rooted. "I always wanted to go to business school," notes Feeley. "My dad was...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52291 Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
home mortgages in the 1990s. As recently as 2001, it represented only 2 percent of home purchase originations. In 2005, it represented 20 percent." By now the system promoted and rewarded the selling of mortgages. Mortgage brokers originated over two-thirds of the...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
"retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two equilibria can emerge out of identical fundamentals. In the "American" (as opposed to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 2002), private investor, senior executive “First, my wife and I felt our top priority was to decide where we wanted to live and then look for a job, as opposed to letting my work drag us around the country. Second, I have elected to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
nationwide perspective across a very large part of the labor force, people that are going to be working basic jobs—what are called “middle-skills” jobs, often that require something beyond a high school diploma but short of a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
convenience. As we think about how Covid shapes the small-business sector, it really remains to be seen. We’ve had increasing concentration within the business community across the country toward larger businesses, as opposed to smaller...
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