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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
we had already been working virtually. But Coursera actually leaned hard into virtual work and very early on said this is not just something we’re going to do during Covid. We’re going to embrace the virtual...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
I concluded was that the problems of workforce don’t match very well against areas in a university, and particularly in a business school. If you’re going to understand—for example, what are View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
consumer, and then over time, I think, began to increasingly lean into the business side. How did that process unfold?Houston: Well, we followed our customers. I mean, a lot of people realized that Dropbox...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
weapons. I’ve competed against companies my whole career that basically scared their employees into never leaving. And it was damaging to the employee, and it was damaging to our customers, because it...
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- 15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
the sky. The pilot glides into the air. He actually likes flying, so he flies it for about 12 or 15 minutes before he reaches over and he turns on View Details
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16922 Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Abstract This working paper surveys the business history of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
more than 10 percent higher than the prior year. The group leaned into its mission to improve the practice of management and its impact in a...
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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Prioritizing such goals would work against having taxes based on personal characteristics. Now, if the gain in terms of reduced total sacrifice were large enough from taxing height, we might do it despite...
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by Martha Lagace
- November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
process to protect against the chaos that would come if we brought it out in the open. I agree that it's not going to lead to a great outcome if we do it all just from one...
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by Sean Silverthorne
Fiscal Development Under Sovereign and Colonial Rule
Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9
hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to adopt practices consistent with the aims of a broader social movement. We find empirical evidence of direct and spillover effects. In View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
federal government reacted with the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires all projects licensed by the government to file an environmental impact...
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by Staff
- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
expensing meals, however, one of your coworkers grabs fast food while working through lunches and dinners, but later buys a gift card at a grocery store to make up the difference. He argues the client has...
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- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
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Courses - Entrepreneurship
under conditions of profound uncertainty and do so while balancing great risks against potentially attractive rewards. Moreover, they operate without the benefit of well-defined processes for making such...
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Podcast - Business & Environment
Climate change poses two very different challenges to the U.S. Navy. First, the Navy has to buttress its billions of dollars of shoreline assets against rising sea levels....
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- 31 Jan 2022
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Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
is not for the fainthearted. Most of us know how to drive—we have the basics—but we recognize we are ill-prepared to race against world-class competitors. While data and...
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 424-052, March 2024. More Publications In the News 06 May 2024 HBS Working Knowledge The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That...
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