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- 01 Jun 2023
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Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t...
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- 15 Feb 2022
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Women’s Gains on Bank Boards at Risk of Stalling
- 01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
“That’s not the norm in Japan,” she says. That cultural melting pot changed how Tanaka saw the world and her place in it. She wanted to keep learning about different cultures, religions, and politics, a desire that brought her to...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Action Plan: In Context
she moved to Beijing in 2012 after graduating from HBS, Ho saw a need for the skills she’d learned: not a set of rigid social rules but the ability to feel comfortable in any situation. China was in the midst of rapid expansion, evolving...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
the world as it is, not the world as we wish it were. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle with these technologies. There’s a multilateral hunger for the United States to take a leadership role in establishing and enforcing norms to...
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
Company” In 1997, a portion of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewage System is taken over by a joint venture, the Manila Water Company, which must develop the newly acquired employees and assets into a profitable firm. I work in financial markets and have always...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Managing the challenges faced by a local nonprofit
Norm Merritt (MBA 1988) talks about using his management expertise to assist his local Audubon Society solve some complex operational issues. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this CEO and crusader for View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 28 May 2019
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Look Again
Toilette (above) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of social norms on artists’ choices, Murrell says: Frédéric Bazille’s La Toilette (right) and Young Woman with Peonies (below)...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his...
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Jennifer Mele
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Matchabelli, the son of nobility in Georgia and an amateur chemist. He began blending perfumes for his friends at an antique shop in New York before founding his own perfume company in 1926 . The social importance of smelling and looking...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes
he writes. In his working paper "Flexibility: The New Social Contract between Individuals and Firms?," Bradach studies independent contractors, companies that use their services, and staffing agencies that bring the two parties together....
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Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2006
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A New Path for Alumnae
responsibility, but also insisted on autonomy and flexibility. Is on-ramping predominantly a women’s issue? Fewer of our male alums, less than 10 percent, take time out from their full-time careers to deal with family issues. I believe this is because of the cultural...
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