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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
special benefits package consisting of a 10-year tax holiday (corporate and personal), a 99-year land lease at concessionary rates, grants of up to $750K, no customs or duty taxes, and more. Macedonia’s economy has been stable since its...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
traffic). New energy-efficiency laws focus on buildings, which produce about 75 percent of the city’s carbon emissions. From his vantage point as VP for sustainability consulting at Groom Energy Solutions in Salem, Massachusetts, Paul...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
should pursue the acquisition of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands owned by US-based Ford Motor company. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708446 Korea: On the Back of a Tiger (Abridged)...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
off from Navy OCS. My request was denied. Worse yet, during my years in the Navy, friends graduated from law and business school and took great jobs, earning four times more than me. And I was falling behind, working at a dead end job in...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
British Parliament replaced common land with private property--a process that prompted better management and made Great Britain the leader in the Industrial Revolution. I then began to think about the relationship over time between new...
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by Jim Aisner
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new auditors with each audit. The answer:...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Threat in Africa by James M. Hawes (MBA 1971) and Mary Ann Koenig Skyhorse Publishing Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a basic understanding of his mission: recruit...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
bit about the ways that you can connect with talent, both younger and older, about the mission of the government.Ahuja: Absolutely. I think we win on mission all the time. Where can you work on climate change and also like landing a rover...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
targeted training as a more practical alternative for workers and employers. Can Multiverse expand the practicum in the US? Joe Fuller: For many, college is an expensive gamble on landing a job that leads to a lifetime of well-paid work....
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sea. “Having you and the responsibility of taking care of you and keeping you happy, I have no business whatsoever setting out on a venture which was quite so uncertain and risky.” IV. “I started out to climb the highest mountain in the world,” Moore wrote to Hincks in...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
it boosts diversity and equity. And we’ll take stock of some crucial public policy issues. Ryan, welcome to the podcast. Ryan Craig: Great to be here, Bill.Kerr: Ryan, why don’t we start with a little bit of your background and how you came to focus on workforce...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
secret to live a happier life today and discusses such ideas as why success doesn’t lead to happiness, why multitasking is a myth, and how eliminating options leads to more choice. The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
during my career, so to get different geographic perspectives. And I've worked across a variety of our businesses, hardware, software, services, sales. And so I think it's been really being able to go deep in some areas, as well as going broad that has View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details