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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
that today accounts for more than 70 percent of Riverdale’s sales. When Knott launched Riverdale in 1980, virtually all US and foreign lobster traps were made from wood. Today, nearly 90 percent are Aquamesh traps, which are far more...
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- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
extensively within their own levels, but there were virtually no cross-pay-grade interactions in the firm (other than mass e-mails and between administrative assistants and the managers they support). Q:...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Incorrect beliefs are easier to overcome than an ingrained lack of trust. However, as the researchers later demonstrate, even that remedy may prove hard to achieve. Dylan Minor, a visiting assistant professor of business administration in...
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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
perspective: From chatbots to reengineering the organization AI’s revolutionary potential is best realized incrementally, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and Business Applications. How the tech giant is experimenting its way from AI...
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- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Zillow, M.M. LaFleur, Bolster, and Quickbase—have fulfilled their commitment and added a total of 21 Black directors. Three companies—Bolster, Nextdoor and PagerDuty—have each added two Black directors. Yet these figures only tell half the story. Every meeting with...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
interview with Levitt conducted by HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, was shown at the colloquium. See article) Virtually all colloquium participants acknowledged a debt to Levitt, pointing to elements of his 1983 article that...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. In their recent...
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Amy E. Dean
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
authorities. Three AÇEV children and family centers, a 10-classroom primary school, an 8-classroom high school, and sports-and-child play areas will be built in the Gaziantep, Hatay, and Adıyaman container villages. To support continuing education, FIBA also provided...
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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6792.html Published: October 31, 2011 When evaluating compensation issues, economists often assume that both an employer and an employee make rational, albeit self-interested choices while working toward a goal. The problem, says View Details
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by Staff
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
that weigh them down—whether personal or work-related, says Assistant Professor of Business Administration Ashley Whillans. If colleagues try to schedule meetings during that time, say “no,” and turn off alerts so you’re not getting...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
virtual work can be and remote internship and full-time options broaden the pool of potential candidates. Your HBS Recruiting team, including Recruiting Relations Manager, Katja Frey, and Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd,...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Cleveland Clinic colleague Dr. Neil Mehta, assistant dean of education technology, likes to tell a story. “We had physicians review medical charts in our electronic medical records,” he says. These were veteran doctors, with decades of...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big thing,” says McDonald, an View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
The vital signs of the U.S. healthcare workforce aren’t promising. There are shortages throughout—from doctors, nurses, and clinical assistants to pharmacists and home health aides. Covid-19 drove up the burnout rate, and retirements have...
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- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 communication from the Commission of the European Communities). But despite these justifications, there has been View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
in education. BRIDGING THE GAP Access to Professional Development CSML has had more than 10,000 enrollments of K–12 principals and assistant principals since its 2018 launch, with a remarkable 97 percent participant completion rate....
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Collaboration Is Right for You? Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 12 (December 2008) Abstract Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners,...
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Martha Lagace