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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Because of the workload—most cases take at least two hours to read and prepare, and two to three classes are scheduled per day—students often form their own three- to four-person study groups to share ideas and divvy up responsibilities....
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by David A. Garvin
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
directors appointed in response to demands by activists. Using a sample of 1,969 activism events over the period 2004-2012, we identify 824 activist directors. We find that activists are more likely to gain board seats at smaller firms and those with weaker View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
and new outside investors will be one of the central tensions of our time, and not just in Germany. One of the reasons why big firms offer stock options is to make managers think like owners or to align their interests with those of the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
receiving only a dispenser, (2) these effects persist after monitoring or incentives are removed, and (3) the anticipation of monitoring increases handwashing rates significantly, implying that individuals internalize the habitual nature of handwashing and accumulate...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
than their share of scarce environmental resources and therefore must now consume less," observes Fri. "Another is that the developing countries, whose exploding populations threaten to tax the carrying capacity of the planet, must...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
don’t think I had anyone else down to see me off,” Moore begged. He wrote her frequently, filling page after page with his sprawling script, though the opportunity to send and receive mail was rare. He shared gossip about the expedition...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
lifestyle is just incredibly pleasant,” says Gordon. “But I think as Michael and I were taking stock of that, I really had this feeling that this is not what I actually want to get out of life.” There was this chance to not only be on the...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
From that vantage point, he observed social media's key role in the Arab Spring and was so impressed that he joined Twitter as an adviser. When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, Kondo saw how Twitter enabled the country's institutions and agencies...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
2011) Abstract Organizational culture-the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"-can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
pre-specified age, his shares are liquidated and the proceeds are distributed to the other contributors to the MIF. Contributors who are alive at the pre-specified age are also paid the value of their accumulated shares. Like tontines, of...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
C-suite and the human resource function have narrowed the basis for decision making. And we’ll talk about possible solutions, including accounting rules that take stock of how investments in human capital actually affect the bottom line....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
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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share their experiences with students. To deepen students' ability to apply the course skills in a practical context, they also work on a group project. The project involves a comprehensive analysis using the course framework and a View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
matter of avoiding particular missteps. Students really appreciate it when you have someone like Christina who is willing to come to class and talk openly about what happened.” In the stories that follow, alumni share their own takeaways...
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