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- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
those who were getting cash. "It isn't that money doesn't work," but that money's incentivizing power can be overvalued, Ashraf explains. "The takeaway is in fact that we have a hierarchy of needs that includes social recognition." By...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
potential dates, one much larger than their own pre-Facebook social networks. It also offered a peculiar anonymity. Users posted their profiles under pseudonyms and provided only the information they wanted to reveal. The online dating...
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April White
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
layering of political polarization that we will collectively come to our senses in the next generation. The other generational hope that I have is for the younger people. Kids these days are not on Facebook. That’s for grandpa. They don’t interact with View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
for a company for a couple of years. It’s then that many of them decide to go on to graduate school,” Shibayama says. “In Japan, many of the students decide their position for life as an undergraduate.” He prefers the American path, he...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
consumers upfront to avoid making bad decisions that incite criticism. I prefer a more collaborative, co-creative approach with consumers—understanding how they are likely to respond to key branding changes before they are made, rather...
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April White
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
policy, officials asked Ashraf to conduct research on how to change men’s preferences for having more children. “So I’m piloting projects on that right now,” she said. Ashraf is one of a small number of HBS faculty who pursue experimental...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
compensation, and exit decisions. She socialized new recruits on these behaviors in a famous hundred-slide presentation on Netflix’s unique culture, and then reinforced them constantly, for example, invoking “honesty” (number eight) if...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Dubbed by Fortune as one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, Margie Yang is proud to be part of an ever-growing number of Asian-born female executives and entrepreneurs. But she prefers to put the spotlight on The Esquel...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
probably needed a multifunctional organization, preferably a large one, for which you had bottom-line responsibility —somewhat unwieldy accouterments to pack with you into your sixties and seventies. Kim Clark, by contrast, speaks of the...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
world. Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01), John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer (Jossey-Bass) The authors show how donors can increase their impact in advancing social...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
emeritus Walter Salmon. “I miss him.” When she came to HBS, Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (AMP 90, 1983) had read all of Ted Levitt’s books. “There were 132 people in my class; 2 were women. Naturally, the guys in my living group decided that I would be the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America’s economy, shaped the country’s development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others.
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the design and...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the...
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