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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
the elders over a cup of tea to explain what you’re doing, he was told. Notify a village two days before beginning tower construction—that way the men can ensure their women will be inside and not visible over compound walls. “Two years later, our competition didn’t...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (DBA 1977), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School’s required general management course....
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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
ability and willingness to speak up in class. Walker points out that many international students come from cultures in which it is taboo to debate with a professor or a fellow classmate. Other societal norms dictate that greater respect...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family...
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- 09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self
that person is leading? Amy Jen Su: I think when we're in leader B mode and it becomes our operating norm or our center of gravity, that's where the “watch out” really is. When a leader is more and more often finding themselves in that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
than interesting.” April: We have a lot of new things to think about when we're sort of rebuilding the work environment in a virtual world. And it's obviously going to take us some time to create these new norms and figure out the best...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
by a punishing cycle of overwork, whether studying for college entrance exams or following the “996” norm of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. “I will slack off at work I am a blunt sword to boycott consumerism,” declared a...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
based on their intuitions and gut feelings. Soltes provides insights into why some executives saw the immediate effects of misconduct as positive, why executives often don’t feel the emotions (angst, guilt, shame) most people would expect, and how acceptable View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get started, and what were the norms that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were “The old rules don't hold” and “There...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
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Keeping the Beat
to hopping on Zoom. Everyone is used to hopping on Instagram Live or Facebook Live, or these virtual experiences. It’s the new norm and people are comfortable with it. They have better Internet connections. They’re charging their phones....
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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with different approaches while working...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
communication. In addition, attention was focused on strengthening an organization’s ability to sustain neuro-diversity in the workforce. “This was most challenging, as there had been very little evidence or information on how to build sustainability; but it eventually...
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Jennifer Myers
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
book on it.” MARCH 18 Khan Academy founder Sal Khan (MBA 2003) announced plans to help students and parents navigate the new norm of distance learning. Read more about his work here. MARCH 16 Moderna, led by CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
imaginable form of government, all others excepted. Maybe the same applies to market capitalism. Uwe Lembke (MBA ’61) Saint Germain-en-Laye, France Beyond Class Notes Usually I just scan our class notes, where Norm Whitaker (PMD 17, 1969)...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception....
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