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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after accounting for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
individual partners' ability to IPO, achieve outsized exits, or fail, and to what extent that performance is attributable to the firm or the partner. Shedding light on the sources of performance in venture capital firms will help us make View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Pay, led by CEO and cofounder Karla Friede (MBA 1989). The goal is to finance companies with an executive team that includes both men and women. “The name is a bit of a misnomer,” Dorsen says, citing research showing the success of...
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April White
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
hold. The goal of her work has been to see what happens if she throws a stone in a pond: “It’s not going to make grand waves,” Oishi says. “But if we keep throwing stones, then maybe we can get somewhere.” Introducing View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
leaders are required to develop a business plan, adhere to agreed-upon performance metrics, and undergo regular progress reviews conducted by a peer-led oversight committee. The Center for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a new but crucial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
six countries during the January Term for 12 days of field project work. While the IXP program has been in place since 2005, this was the first year that students received academic credit, signaling the School’s recognition of the program’s academic rigor. “Our View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Dooley in the early 1970s to meet a need unfulfilled by other HBS executive education programs. As it became clear that ownership made a difference in the attitudes and goals of the participants, the ownership requirement was instituted...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
1933: “The most pressing question in America today is, Can American business leadership rise to its opportunities and responsibilities?” Noting the relevance of these words 75 years later, Faust added her own coda: Looking forward, the View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of challenges. So what we found are a couple of really interesting statistics here, like 94 percent of the population worldwide at this point in time really do not think that we have made enough progress on sustainability and social types...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
people out in the field with the goal of protecting workers’ rights to make sure that they’re safe and dignified—15,000 FTEs, a $15 billion discretionary budget, hundreds of regional offices around the country. Fuller: So I don’t think...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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theme, as did multiple other media outlets. Major institutions also produced bullish reports. McKinsey's "Lions on the Move: The progress and potential of African economies," published in June 2010, was the firm's first of two major...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
mandate and management of international trade negotiations. Historically, legitimacy for GATT and later the WTO was understood to derive from expanding membership and success at major trade round negotiations. In the past decade, and despite a lack of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
of American occupation (1898-1918), we find that the implementation of these reforms was very slow. As a consequence, tenure insecurity increased over this period, and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
vision of sustainability. Holding on to stringent notions is not going to lead to practical, workable solutions." Yet Vietor points out that more and more companies are spontaneously coming up with sustainable development strategies that aim for the twin View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
what you plan to do and ask for feedback. Nothing should be hidden because that builds trust. Execute changes, then repeat the process periodically. Check on progress to learn about unanticipated and unintended outcomes and make...
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