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Become The Decision Maker
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The case method at HBS Executive Education.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
Authentic Leadership Development: The Faculty
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Bill George, Rob Kaplan, Nitin Nohria, and Scott Snook will help you develop your authentic leadership.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
The New Leadership Approach
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Bill George discusses the dramatic change to leadership in the 21st century.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
Empowering Leaders
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Today's leaders need to empower others to step up and lead confidently.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
Finding Your True North
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This inner compass guides authentic leaders when nothing else can.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
Financial Crisis: Caution Urged By Faculty Panel - Panelist: Robert C. Merton
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Robert C. Merton is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor and a winner of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Webcasts
Leadership For The 21st Century
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A roundtable discussion with Charlie Rose and the 2008 HBS Alumni Achievement Award recipients.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The Flattening Firm And Product Market Competition: The Effect Of Trade Liberalization
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. The authors exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
September 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Leaders with low emotional intelligence (EQ) often lack self-awareness and self-compassion, which can lead to a lack of self-regulation. This also makes it very difficult for them to feel...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Introverts: The Best Leaders For Proactive Employees
October 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Think effective leadership requires gregariousness and charisma? Think again. Introverts actually can be better leaders than extraverts, especially when their employees are naturally proactive,...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Come Fly With Me: A History Of Airline Leadership
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurs are the dominant leadership archetype in the early start-up phase of an industry, especially as different players try to establish a viable business model. This was the case in the...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Uncompromising Leadership In Tough Times
February 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The CEOs were quite different in personality, background, and leadership style. But they were similar in what they saw as the purpose of the firm. They shared the view that a firm has a larger...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Leadership Initiative rests on three avenues of research - legacy leadership, emerging leadership, and global leadership. The Great American Business Leaders database was developed as part of...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Understanding Debt Imputation Issues
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper is to explore the issue of debt imputation. It is written for EEI members and regulatory staff, to understand the issue, and review options for addressing it in the rate making...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are biased measures of expected cash flows. The authors imagine a simple setting where...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Cyber Power
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Provenance for the Cloud
January 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
The cloud is poised to become the next computing environment for both data storage and computation due to its pay-as-one-go and provision-as-one-go models. Cloud storage is already being used to...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Rail Transportation Of Toxic Inhalation Hazards Policy Responses To The Safety And Security Externality
February 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Toxic inhalation hazard (TIH) chemicals such as chlorine gas and anhydrous ammonia are among the most dangerous of hazardous materials. Rail transportation of TIH creates risk that is not...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Spreading The Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired By Joe The Plumber
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the policy debate concerning optimal taxation and the distribution of income. It begins with a brief overview of trends in income inequality, the leading hypothesis to explain...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The Politics Of Monetary Policy
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, with an eye on the questions raised by the recent financial crisis. They begin with a...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Depth Of Reasoning And Higher Order Beliefs
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As demonstrated by the email game of Rubinstein (1989), the predictions of the standard equilibrium models of game theory are sensitive to assumptions about the fine details of the higher order...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Preferences For Redistribution
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. The authors review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Stochastic Stability In Large Populations
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most work in evolutionary game theory analyzes a deterministic adjustment process on a continuum of agents. However, both the assumption of a continuum and that of no randomness are...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The Evolution Of Ideology, Fairness And Redistribution
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ideas about what is "Fair" above and beyond the individuals' position in the income ladder determine preferences for redistribution. The authors study the dynamic evolution of different economies...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Extremism And Social Learning
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
When members of deliberating groups speak with one another, their predeliberation tendencies often become exacerbated as their views become more extreme. The resulting phenomenon - group...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The Economic Approach To Cities
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The economic approach to cities relies on a spatial equilibrium for workers, employers and builders. The worker's equilibrium implies that positive attributes in one location, like access to...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation To Join The Pigou Club
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many economists favor higher taxes on energy-related products such as gasoline, while the general public is more skeptical. This essay discusses various aspects of this policy debate. It focuses,...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Gender Based Taxation And The Division Of Family Chores
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticity's between men and women are taken as...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The Economics Of Place-Making Policies
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not indicate which places...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Social Capital And Urban Growth
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Social capital is often place-specific while schooling is portable, so the prospect of migration may reduce the returns to social capital and increase the returns to schooling. If social capital...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Democracy, Technology, And Growth
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Value At Risk Under Dependence And Heavy Tailedness: Models With Comon Shocks
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an analysis of diversification and portfolio value at risk for heavy-tailed dependent risks in models with multiple common shocks. The authors show that, in the framework of...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Entrepreneurship And The City
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents basic facts on two measures of entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success, suggesting...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Self-Confirming Equilibrium And The Lucas Critique
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the role of off-path "Superstitions" in macro-economics, and show how a false belief about off-path play is the key element underlying both the Lucas Critique and the...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Choice, Rationality And Welfare Measurement
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a method for evaluating the welfare of a decision maker, based on observed choice data. Unlike the standard economic theory of revealed preference, the method can be used...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors. The approach generalizes the...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For over forty years, the authors have assumed hierarchical file system namespaces. These namespaces were a rudimentary attempt at simple organization. As users have begun to interact with...
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Why We Aren't As Ethical As We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation
August 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions:...
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Designing A Two-Sided Platform: When To Increase Search Costs?
August 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by consumers looking for sellers (stores). First, we show that the quality of the...
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Exclusivity And Control
August 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For over forty years, the authors have assumed hierarchical file system namespaces. These namespaces were a rudimentary attempt at simple organization. As users have begun to interact with...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors. The approach generalizes the...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Choice, Rationality And Welfare Measurement
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a method for evaluating the welfare of a decision maker, based on observed choice data. Unlike the standard economic theory of revealed preference, the method can be used...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Self-Confirming Equilibrium And The Lucas Critique
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the role of off-path "Superstitions" in macro-economics, and show how a false belief about off-path play is the key element underlying both the Lucas Critique and the...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Entrepreneurship And The City
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents basic facts on two measures of entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success, suggesting...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Value At Risk Under Dependence And Heavy Tailedness: Models With Comon Shocks
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an analysis of diversification and portfolio value at risk for heavy-tailed dependent risks in models with multiple common shocks. The authors show that, in the framework of...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Democracy, Technology, And Growth
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Social Capital And Urban Growth
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Social capital is often place-specific while schooling is portable, so the prospect of migration may reduce the returns to social capital and increase the returns to schooling. If social capital...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
The Economics Of Place-Making Policies
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not indicate which places...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Gender Based Taxation And The Division Of Family Chores
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticity's between men and women are taken as...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation To Join The Pigou Club
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many economists favor higher taxes on energy-related products such as gasoline, while the general public is more skeptical. This essay discusses various aspects of this policy debate. It focuses,...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
The Economic Approach To Cities
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The economic approach to cities relies on a spatial equilibrium for workers, employers and builders. The worker's equilibrium implies that positive attributes in one location, like access to...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Extremism And Social Learning
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
When members of deliberating groups speak with one another, their predeliberation tendencies often become exacerbated as their views become more extreme. The resulting phenomenon - group...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
The Evolution Of Ideology, Fairness And Redistribution
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ideas about what is "Fair" above and beyond the individuals' position in the income ladder determine preferences for redistribution. The authors study the dynamic evolution of different economies...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Stochastic Stability In Large Populations
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most work in evolutionary game theory analyzes a deterministic adjustment process on a continuum of agents. However, both the assumption of a continuum and that of no randomness are...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Preferences For Redistribution
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. The authors review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Depth Of Reasoning And Higher Order Beliefs
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As demonstrated by the email game of Rubinstein (1989), the predictions of the standard equilibrium models of game theory are sensitive to assumptions about the fine details of the higher order...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
The Politics Of Monetary Policy
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, with an eye on the questions raised by the recent financial crisis. They begin with a...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Spreading The Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired By Joe The Plumber
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses the policy debate concerning optimal taxation and the distribution of income. It begins with a brief overview of trends in income inequality, the leading hypothesis to explain...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Rail Transportation Of Toxic Inhalation Hazards Policy Responses To The Safety And Security Externality
February 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Toxic inhalation hazard (TIH) chemicals such as chlorine gas and anhydrous ammonia are among the most dangerous of hazardous materials. Rail transportation of TIH creates risk that is not...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Provenance for the Cloud
January 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
The cloud is poised to become the next computing environment for both data storage and computation due to its pay-as-one-go and provision-as-one-go models. Cloud storage is already being used to...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Cyber Power
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are biased measures of expected cash flows. The authors imagine a simple setting where...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Understanding Debt Imputation Issues
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper is to explore the issue of debt imputation. It is written for EEI members and regulatory staff, to understand the issue, and review options for addressing it in the rate making...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Leadership Initiative rests on three avenues of research - legacy leadership, emerging leadership, and global leadership. The Great American Business Leaders database was developed as part of...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Uncompromising Leadership In Tough Times
February 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The CEOs were quite different in personality, background, and leadership style. But they were similar in what they saw as the purpose of the firm. They shared the view that a firm has a larger...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Come Fly With Me: A History Of Airline Leadership
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurs are the dominant leadership archetype in the early start-up phase of an industry, especially as different players try to establish a viable business model. This was the case in the...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Introverts: The Best Leaders For Proactive Employees
October 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Think effective leadership requires gregariousness and charisma? Think again. Introverts actually can be better leaders than extraverts, especially when their employees are naturally proactive,...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
September 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Leaders with low emotional intelligence (EQ) often lack self-awareness and self-compassion, which can lead to a lack of self-regulation. This also makes it very difficult for them to feel...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
The Flattening Firm And Product Market Competition: The Effect Of Trade Liberalization
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. The authors exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
Leadership For The 21st Century
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A roundtable discussion with Charlie Rose and the 2008 HBS Alumni Achievement Award recipients.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
Financial Crisis: Caution Urged By Faculty Panel - Panelist: Robert C. Merton
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Robert C. Merton is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor and a winner of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
Finding Your True North
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This inner compass guides authentic leaders when nothing else can.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
Empowering Leaders
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Today's leaders need to empower others to step up and lead confidently.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
The New Leadership Approach
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Bill George discusses the dramatic change to leadership in the 21st century.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
Authentic Leadership Development: The Faculty
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Bill George, Rob Kaplan, Nitin Nohria, and Scott Snook will help you develop your authentic leadership.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
Webcasts
Become The Decision Maker
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The case method at HBS Executive Education.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
-
White Papers
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Bad "Side effects" produced by goal-setting programs include a rise in unethical behavior, over-focus on one area while neglecting other parts of the business, distorted risk preferences,...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
10 Reasons To Design A Better Corporate Culture
December 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Organizations with strong, adaptive cultures enjoy labor cost advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. We can learn a great deal from...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Encouraging Dissent In Decision-Making
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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