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- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice
year on the road, I returned to the United States to join Teach for America, where I worked as a high school Social Studies teacher in Birmingham, AL for two years. After starting a nonprofit group while in...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
in the United States will continue to creep inexorably toward the $2 a gallon mark while the rising cost of heating oil and natural gas sends consumers in the frigid North diving for their down comforters....
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- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America,...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
such as, "Other less mobile cultures have more centralized cities, with tighter cultures and families; the United States has urban sprawl, massively wasteful resource usage, looser nuclear families, and much...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
from Anywhere or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office This study of a real firm presents robust econometric evidence that "work from anywhere"...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Transforming Health Care Delivery Course Number 2195 Associate Professor Susanna Gallani Professor Robert Huckman Spring; Q3; 1.5 creditsPaper At the root of the transformation occurring in the health care industry—both in the View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
source of diverse talent for their leadership pipelines that they are and can be. Excerpt from Thurgood Marshall College Fund History HBCUs were established in the United States early in the 19th century, to...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
really working hard to make sure that the next global protocol — the successor to Kyoto due in 2012 — is one that the United States can commit to and that there are real mechanisms to ensure more efficient...
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Roger Thompson
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reawakening rural America
Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) founded Agracel, an industrial development firm, to boost the economies of rural America in places such as Teutopolis, Illinois, the small farming hamlet where he grew up. The Effingham, Illinois-based company has completed projects in 14 View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like...
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- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have...
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
a great event." What made the New York/New Jersey region a unique challenge was having two of everything—two states and their associated agencies (New York and New Jersey), two host teams (New York Jets and New York Giants), and two sides...
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- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
coming off welfare to avert a potentially large national problem (and a political problem for President Clinton). Intermediary organizations such as local and national nonprofits provided training and helped identify job-ready candidates. Participating companies such...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Profile
Maurice Taylor
from those motivations and fears. The reality is, a strong financial system requires the best and the brightest to develop appropriate regulations – not just for the good of the United States, but for the entire global economy.”
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- Profile
Michelle Giguere
inherent differences between running a brand in China versus running one in the United States." Overall, Michelle's HBS experience to date has given her renewed perspective on her career. "Realizing how many options there are...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
command. For the Kahn Building, Cummings is working on a deal with another leading home-furnishing retailer, for a space on the first floor, and he also plans 165 residential units on the upper floors. Cummings drives around the New...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of all federally insured banks in the United States from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
With nearly 1,800 stores in 44 states and Ontario, Canada, the company and its franchisees employ about 80,000 workers and saw system-wide sales of nearly $4 billion in 2012. Menu items include a range of quick but distinctive options,...
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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various food safety risks?” The chain...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
“People often seem surprised when I tell them that unemployment among veterans is lower than the general population,” states Peter Gudmundsson (MBA 1990), president and CEO of RecruitMilitary, a leading military-to-civilian recruiting...
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