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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
no. 12 (December 2009): 24 Abstract Online advertisers frequently fall victim to dishonest, tech-savvy publishers. Here's a sampling of common scams with some advice on how to outwit their perpetrators. Purchase the article:
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
people, sometimes totally new, came to the village for the first time. In a few places I visited, genocide victims were given plots of land right next door to someone who had been a perpetrator of the genocide, thereby encouraging some...
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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
trusteeship that left unaddressed the matter of doing better. So, I had to tell the foundation head we were going to anyway. Footnote: 22 Dana Liebelson, “Where Did the Money Donated to Columbine, Aurora, and Virginia Tech Mass-Shooting View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
psychological and emotional anesthetic. Its victims don't know their inner lives have shriveled and their healthy instincts have grown dull. In fact, these men and women often seem to be living exemplary, balanced lives, and they may be...
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
arrived on campus, it lost one of its members, a Nigerian engineer named Nkiru Amene, to an automobile accident. And in the last six weeks, you’ve lived through the Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath, and you’ve grieved with us for the daughter of a longtime...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories, whose primary clients were European, U.S., and Canadian firms. Export contracts to such firms had helped Bangladesh become the world's second largest clothing exporter. Rana Plaza...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
not universal. However, there is evidence of a mirroring “trap”: firms focused on the current technical architecture may fall victim to architectural innovations arising outside their boundaries. Thus in technologically dynamic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
If we value achievement and adopt celebrity standards, we will certainly fall victim to our own excess. Nothing will be enough, and success will never satisfy. If we're high achievers, we may be plagued with self-doubt, feeling that we've...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
are now in high school. The Joey Fund—started by Joe O'Donnell (MBA 1971) in 1986 in memory of his son, a victim of cystic fibrosis—has raised more than $56 million to support both patients and research. Last year, a longtime partnership...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
toward a common understanding. Together we pray for the victims of this tragedy and hold their families, friends, and colleagues in our hearts." Scenes from the September 14 campus memorial service where Jim Cash and Stacey Childress (at...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
between "hand-made" and "machine-made." When Westmoreland finally closed down in the 1980s, it had outlasted all but one major hand-glassware company. Last year, that company finally fell victim to a market force it couldn't control: the...
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- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
alone. You have the support of peers. Being a victim of harassment doesn't diminish you. You don't fear for your own career. It helps to have some power. It helps to be at the table, and we must hear those voices. Because if we don't hear...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
haven’t been able to close their funds,” says Breyer. “I think that 2005 and 2006 will be bellwether years in terms of firms closing.” Cash-starved funds are victims of the post-meltdown “flight to quality,” explains Rob Chandra (MBA...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
taught generations of students to be neither victims of analysis paralysis nor prone to promiscuous decision-making. Finally, although there are always unfortunate exceptions, I think on the whole we’ve graduated a community of...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness, and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising charities in the United Kingdom, the organization's trustees wrestle with how to meet the needs of this vast and most vulnerable...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Federal Disaster Relief, designed to help the victims of natural disasters, he continued. The policy provides relief but does not include land use regulation or risk-based premiums. "We see more and more building in hazard prone...
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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
pre-pandemic times. We will all be forever changed by this experience, and the transition to a post-pandemic world will be a slow and rocky one that will bring challenges and stressors. Some of your employees will return to work grieving the loss of a loved one who...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
much-needed medical protection items to hospital and response personnel, while another seeks to raise funds from HBS alumni to support the families of victims of the virus.
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