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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
capital by foot, subte (subway), bus, and bright yellow bike-share bicycles. Pedestrian-only Florida Street in Buenos Aires. (Photos courtesy of John Macomber) Professor Macomber and students at the new electric power and water...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
be talking to, here’s the content, here’s where you’re at in your career, given the information you’ve provided to us,” that becomes much more relevant for alumni. Everybody talks about the HBS network, but it happens serendipitously and View Details
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April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
(HBS Archives Photographs: Student Life) In 1970, there were no female members of the Harvard Club of New York City, and women entered the club through a separate entrance. Alumna Roslyn Payne (MBA 1970) and her classmates were determined to change that. Their...
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April White
- 05 Jun 2020
- News
FT business books: April to June edition
- 25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be successful...
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April White
- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
environment that was all built around being the best that you could be.” A typical day: “What is that?” Building a team: “I’m not doing any of this stuff by myself. I’m doing it with a team of people who, in most cases, are more...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) What is really at stake when we talk about patents? Lauren Cohen: Innovation is the future of the US economy. Given that the value of firms is shifting toward intellectual property, if we don’t get patents...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
Illustration by Brian Stauffer THE PROFESSOR: Asaf Ali Khan For his first book, James Glenn (MBA 1965) was going to write about his own experiences in India during the Green Revolution of the 1970s. Worried it might not be exciting...
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April White
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results highlight the bias created...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
case-based approach to teaching and learning relies heavily on exposing HBS students to a wide variety of perspectives because we’re preparing them to be leaders in organizations and in a world marked by vast human difference and...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
care facilities in Tanzania. The country was chosen because Mutasingwa was established there, the needs were great, and government ministers wanted to find a solution. The goal is to expand to 100 of the country’s 6,000 public primary care facilities View Details
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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
benefit from mimicking the showroom concepts started by online-first retailers and why online-first retailers can benefit from opening more traditional stores. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54316 March...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 1986
- Supplement
Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video
Contains a presentation by Browning to a class of MBA students in March 1986, in which he describes how he handled the first year of his efforts to revitalize the Whitecap Division of Continental Can (1984-85).
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Restructuring
Jick, Todd D., and Mary C. Gentile. "Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-502, September 1986.
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to develop Alfred’s routes and respond to customer requests in conjunction with other service providers, for example grocery delivery services, in what the founders describe as their "B2B2C" business model. Alfred won the coveted TechCrunch San Francisco...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Psychology and Financial Fragility By: Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
Photos by Micha Loubaton Photos by Micha Loubaton Just a decade ago, executive assessment was something CEOs whispered about. There was a real reluctance among business leaders to admit when they didn’t have...
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April White
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the...
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April White