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- 01 Dec 2010
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Do Good: Eat Chocolate
of what explains Endline’s role today as mastermind and chief rioter at sweetriot, a socially conscious chocolate company founded in 2005. Working directly with cacao farmers in Latin America to ensure a fair price for their labor,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and her coauthors looks at the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
firm is pioneering interventions in Sri Lanka that will help transform the nation. In the past two years, York Street Partners has arranged the largest private equity investment in a non-banking financial institution and enabled one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), executive director of Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Office in Tokyo, answers questions about business changes in Japan and the School’s research there. Q: Tell us about an interesting recent case in... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 16 May 2008
- News
Harvard Business School CIO's hiring process
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
the pull of public service. “I am impressed by the number of principled candidates who served in the military and are running for office across the country,” Barcott says, “but I also recognize that these younger veterans often face... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
soon working side by side with its dynamic pastor, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, to take Allen’s ministry outside the church walls. In 1986, after eight years as a senior executive at General Motors, Reed left GM to manage Flake’s successful bid for Congress and... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
directed his giving to support the Business and Environment Initiative. He is enthusiastic about “integrated reporting”, developed by HBS Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles, combining an organization’s financial and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
part, the world’s richest man, Warren Buffett advocates higher taxes on money managers. Buffett sees no justification for a system that allows him and other wealthy investors to enjoy tax rates much lower than their office support staffs.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
here’s where the historical philanthropic paradigm gets turned upside down: Rodríguez wants IGNIA investors to get real financial returns on their money. Not just make their money back—money that can be reinvested—but maybe even beat the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
created a market out of thin air. “We have customers who have come to us and said, ‘I never previously considered a diamond because of the impact,’” says Aether’s cofounder and chief marketing officer Robert... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
also key to the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, which helps new and experienced faculty improve their teaching skills through one-on-one coaching sessions, seminars, and workshops. A Diversity of Voices About 75 percent of MBA students receive some form... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
From 1988 to 1993, Juan Enriquez-Cabot was CEO of SERVIMET, a for-profit urban development entity of the Mexico City government which grew 4,000 percent during his tenure and became the city's largest revenue source after taxes. In 1993, he was named View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
being a CEO of a multinational corporation. She even dressed the part, going to school in a pantsuit. But the path to the corner office is often an expensive one. Thompson-Woode learned this as a high schooler in Brooklyn when she wanted... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross