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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the...
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- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
that I would never make that mistake again and that I would do everything in my power to help the people around me avoid making that mistake. That's really what motivated me to write Radical Candor and come up with a framework and to be...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
Park, California. “Limited partners now want to be in the top-tier funds, leaving the top funds oversubscribed and the new, emerging funds having difficulty lining up capital.” From the LPs’ point of view, there’s good reason to be...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
you pleased with how all of this is going? CLARK: Very much so, and for reasons that go deeper than the new equipment on our desktops. When I took this job, I inherited a strong foundation for going forward on information technology....
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain to society. These downsides of...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
could bring. The reason we eventually let the government take back the lead on this rather than pursue it as a commercial effort is that... Ultimately, the cost of the overall system was still going to be in the billions of dollars. And...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who motivates patients to take better care of themselves is often overlooked,” he notes. In the fall, Jain plans to begin his final year of medical school while also spending time at HBS working with Porter. His residency ideally would...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
once they’ve set the table for themselves, then harness the passion and be able to go and use the magic of that and that’s where they will be stronger for it. If we can have the analytic ones be able to understand the path ahead, not have the fear of the unknown be the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
imperative — for 94 years. Hall: I teach a compensation course, and yet I always begin it with the idea that organizations exist to create value for society. I want to try to center things around the core reason we're here. Compensation —...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
distribute products, this is how you price them, this is how you brand them, this is how leadership is optimized, this is how you design organizations, and this is how you motivate people. Take any subject, they were all grounded in...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
are dramatically different and quite exciting. Working in civil society, you are surrounded by people who are deeply passionate about the calls that they serve. And issues around motivation and organizational focus are relatively easier...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
one an overland trip across four African countries that culminated in volunteer work at a university in Mauritius. These were two totally different experiences, but with the same impact: They gave DiDonna some real separation from his work, and reminded him what it was...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
caused by hidden munitions on board, may have been the reason why the passenger ship sank in a deadly eighteen minutes, causing 1,198 deaths. As odd as it may sound, he also happens to hold title to the wreck, having purchased it for $1...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
what motivated her to write The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. “I think stories are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t,” she says. “But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues
turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
You’ll learn how to find the reason behind your work; identify what makes you feel happy and fulfilled; use job crafting to transform your role; build positive, fulfilling relationships; and connect your work to service. Arm yourself with...
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