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- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
our own sense of right and wrong, true to the shared values that this process and these answers spoke to, and still represent one of the parties in an honorable way. So there were some common values that went beyond each individual party...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
megacities like Buenos Aires (population of more than 12 million) and Lima (home to nearly 10 million people, a third of Peru’s population). Other students investigated common problem areas such as energy use and environmental concerns....
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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond
Philanthropies, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) charitable foundation. At Bloomberg, he co-led and expanded the Mayors Challenge, a $9 million prize competition to inspire American cities to develop bold solutions to View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
times do you have the opportunity to really step back from work in an amount of time where you feel rejuvenated. I mean, I think you often hear people say, “I was just really starting to unplug, and then I had to go back to work,” on a vacation. That's a pretty View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
The truism “opposites attract” is something everyone has heard, but it’s forgotten in amateur matchmaking. People base their setups on similarities, not complementary differences. That creates commonality but no spark. You may think you...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than traffic View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Your Customers Exactly What They Want—And Nothing More by Stephen Wunker (MBA 1996) and Jennifer Luo Law Amacom Cut costs is a common corporate refrain. But if you constantly slash expenditures, what happens...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
corporation’s stakeholders beyond the shareholder is that they are vital to the long-term successful economic performance of the corporation. Some argue that only the interests of the shareholders should be considered by directors. The thrust of history and View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the long-range common good,” Popik says....
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- 01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way
crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber coalition touted the achievement, crediting his fellow speakers. A representative from the...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
commonalities these icons could find over a few pints. The result is Schultz’s new book, Innovation on Tap: Stories of Entrepreneurship from the Cotton Gin to Broadway's Hamilton, and on this episode of Skydeck, he and I discuss what two...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
uncertainty. Even in the smartest venture firms, failures are more common than successes. This is a difficult concept for governments to accept. France, for example, has a tendency to set up entrepreneurship initiatives and pull out after...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
relationship with France. Yet at the same time, we lack a vision of where to go as a small territory. We have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean, but we miss a collective sense of pride in common achievement. Clearly,...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
did it” winemaker stories each finish with original family recipes that pair well with their wines. More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
"Understanding gender triggers can make it easier for women to neutralize inequities." "Understanding gender triggers can make it easier for women to neutralize inequities." - KATHLEEN McGINN That study drew her to consider other common...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to business school rather than View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
successfully balance the needs of their egos with the collective needs of their organizations, they can see increased profits and a workforce unified around a common goal. The War on Error: A Hospital Field Manual by W.T. Subalusky (AMP...
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