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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
and practitioners thus have to navigate a complex environment of pressures. More intriguingly, we identify a series of strategies used by nonprofit executives and staff to manage the tensions between upward accountability and mission: a prioritization of lateral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve worked to upgrade that relationship substantially. Black...
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- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
chance to be an agent of empowerment in this process. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts....
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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
appraisals. There is an overriding contradiction at the center of the Bank's approach to public participation. On the one hand, Bank literature and policy statements are replete with testimonials to the importance of participation and View Details
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
will be very different parts of China. Shanghai will be a Chinese city, while Hong Kong will be international." Another questioner, Donald Bongami Mkhwanazi (59th PMD), chairman of the National Empowerment Trust Investment Fund in Durban,...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
giving them the resources and empowerment to help tackle these and other challenges. Our veterans are now leading the way on cleaning up neighborhoods, beautifying schools, restoring trails in parks, and building urban farms, and in doing...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
constant engagement is critical to build trust, more empowerment is a foundation for growth, and being empathetic is key for all-round success.” —Nageswar Cherukupalli (PLDA 21, 2016) PART THREE Here, There, Everywhere Now that we have...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
Through contemporary examples from a variety of industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a group of firms that together...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
retailers empower their workers to improve processes at the store and also give them the tools and training needed to use the empowerment appropriately. Enlightened retailers also realize the importance of not overloading their store...
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- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
to recruit, hire and develop minority executives at MTN, a South African telecommunications company, Charnley attempts to bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
seemed the government's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies were only enriching a few. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer "a gentler capitalism"...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
solution to Japan's persistent low economic growth. Several decades of economic stagnation led Abe to spearhead a multi-faceted reform effort to shake off deflation and come to grips with Japan's large national debt and rapidly aging society. "Womenomics"—the promotion...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Empowerment By: Huckman, Robert S., and Mark A. Kelley M.D. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45889 Working Papers Managers and Market Capitalism By: Henderson, Rebecca M.,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
provides readers with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate outcomes. Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company by Richard S. Ruback...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
him to do so, and the more she answered his questions and talked about her money, the more she straightened up in her chair and the more confident she became. It was wonderful to see — a moment of empowerment happening right there. Now...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
needs, but the OTS system, and an increasing number of strict rules for purchasing and displaying goods, upset many employees. Should Amazon push Whole Foods to improve performance by emphasizing efficiency and standardization? Or should it aim to maintain a sense of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
format. Customers know that at some prices, firms find it profitable to produce high-quality products and at other, lower, prices, this is not the case. Thus, customer empowerment leads to higher profits. Organizational Responses to...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy...
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for offerings and growth. c. Agility and empowerment. Next, you will learn how to develop decision-support dashboards and guidelines, as well as agile teams, to enable employees to share best practices and achieve coordination, while preserving employees’ View Details