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- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
the roles of CEOs and leadership in vanguard companies? A: Leadership matters even more when you have to symbolize purpose and values as well as look to the future. People look at what leaders do, not just what they say. So leaders have...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Berolzheimer. “He was tough on students who didn’t use their imagination, and for that reason I didn’t like him at first. It was only later that I came to appreciate that it wasn’t personal.” Levitt’s habit of throwing chalk at the blackboard, he says, was a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that...
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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
assembled an experienced staff during a highly volatile period for such start-ups itself seemed a milestone, and a symbol of the enterprises that might be imagined and attempted in an American economy with deep reserves of risk capital...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
routine, and the benefits accrue only to those couples who jointly view it as a symbolically meaningful ritual. We contribute to the literature on rituals by empirically documenting the relationships between rituals, specific emotions,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Union, symbolized by the signing of the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I); and the mediation of the agreement on Sinai disengagement between Egypt and Israel. An appendix lists other important negotiations in which Kissinger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off from the thousands of regional airports that dot the globe. The...
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
created a complementarity of technical and symbolic resources that contributed to the resilience of Swiss watchmaking through two mechanisms of resolution: technology approbation and creative abrasion. Harvard Business School Case 118-015...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
rituals. We define a ritual as a predefined sequence of symbolic actions often characterized by formality and repetition that lack direct instrumental purpose. Using different instantiations of rituals and measures of anxiety (both...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
part of that-healthcare, quality of life services such as environmental technologies, and education. The white coat is a symbol for both health professionals and people working in laboratories to discover new things. Our entrepreneurs are...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
being mindful of constraints, focusing on the tangible impact of actions while recognizing their symbolic significance and combining formal power with legitimacy. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54691...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
notice. Donor notification: Award recipients are matched with the donors who make this program possible. Often, donors appreciate hearing about your work and how the loan assistance program has supported your career path. The School compiles thank-you letters from...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Abstract—Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Soviet Union, symbolized by the signing of the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the mediation of the agreement on Sinai disengagement between Egypt and Israel. An appendix lists other important negotiations in which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
promotions, oversees much of the marketing end of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival. "We market the festival as a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go along with the once-in-a-lifetime cachet of the Olympics," Segerlind says. "With the Games as a View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
deck of the Tai Ping Yang as the freighter sailed out of New York Harbor bound for Shanghai. He was joined in what he would later call an “impractical” and “romantic” adventure by Gene Lamb, a veteran explorer who carried the symbolic...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a View Details
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Daniel Penrice