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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-082 Silicon Fen The region around Cambridge, England (known colloquially as Silicon Fen), is home to a cluster of high-tech startups and established businesses. It has a deep...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
political and economic elite help explain the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17852 Expertise Dissensus: A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
regulatory dynamics were complicated and, after three years of trying to make it happen, it never got off the ground,” he says. Undeterred, Royster, who has three daughters, remained passionate about higher ed, especially for those underserved by more View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite help explain the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
New England elites — Massachusetts Investors Trust chairman Merrill Griswold, MIT president Karl T. Compton, and Vermont Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the first Congressman to publicly upbraid Joseph McCarthy. Fresh from the U.S. victory in...
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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group-one of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
joined an even more elite group, those who have also skied at least 60 miles to both the North and South Poles. He was the 54th person in history to achieve what is known as the “Explorer’s Grand Slam.” But Vescovo was already looking for...
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- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
elite educational institutions add to the complexity of Latinx underrepresentation. The inherent vulnerability of those issues makes them difficult to broach in standard admissions events, says Calderon. “We often get the questions about...
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
find that being tied through elite sociopolitical networks to the regime in power significantly increased the rate at which South Korean companies formed cross-border strategic alliances, but also that being tied through View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Orientations of Black and White Men Working in Elite Jobs Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Stephanie Creary presents "Who Helps Who and How? Comparing the Helping Orientations of Black and White Men Working in View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the inner sanctums of power, Casey sees how the world crushes those who live at its margins and how the elite perpetuate the salvation stories that keep others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his own ascension is part of the...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
point: Something has changed in the last few years. We've always hired young people from elite colleges and universities and started them as Analysts. For many years we found that after six or seven years with us and one or more...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
and not others. Criticisms even of elite education and where it is of enormous service and where it does disservice. But this album is more emotional. The activism lies truly in the desire to want to be the best version of ourselves. To...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of “the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
States Naval Reserve and was promptly assigned to the OSS office in Cairo, Egypt. The OSS was an elite group. Only about 20,000 men and women worked for the intelligence service over the course of the war—out of 16 million who served in a...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic elites in China and India have been pondering them for centuries and continue to do so today, with enormously high stakes. In Making Meritocracy, Tarun...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese companies that were more...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
low-income countries. The high-quality firms that do exist focus on top-level searches, so companies must scramble to identify middle-level managers, engineers, or floor supervisors. Engineering colleges, business schools, and training institutions have proliferated,...
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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
world's most elite and demanding professional service firms—The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—could work together to ensure that they each could truly disconnect from work for a scheduled unit of time each week. This modest experiment...
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by Leslie A. Perlow