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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
soon- to-be MBA — entrepreneur intends to make a difference with his business education. “In 20 to 30 years, I hope to have created a venture where people have meaningful View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
remarkably well.—Nancy F. Koehn In Part Two, to appear in the April 23 update of HBS Working Knowledge, Koehn discusses the remarkable brand power created by Estée Lauder, Howard Schultz, and Michael Dell....
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
that if she lost her job, she couldn't pay her children's school fees or pay for a doctor," says Pomeranz, an assistant professor in entrepreneurial management at Harvard Business School. “How can we understand what projects work...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
all ages feel strongly connected to other HBS graduates both professionally and socially. There is a strong sense of indebtedness to the alumni network and a willingness to...
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- Article
Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them
By: Jodi L Short and Michael W. Toffel
The pandemic has placed a new spotlight on working conditions in factories that supply global companies. To avert problems, firms often impose codes of conduct on their suppliers and perform audits to assess compliance. Do these measures help identify unethical...
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Auditing;
Agency Cost;
Quality And Safety;
Quality Management System;
Quality Management;
Unions;
Environmental Management;
Globalization;
Goods and Commodities;
Governance;
Labor;
Labor Unions;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Safety;
Quality;
China;
Bangladesh;
Asia;
Pakistan
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 2 (March–April 2021).
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
the equation—the people and organizations working on the solutions. The couple spent a year reporting on the ground, from around the world, and then compiled their conclusions for A Path Appears. The result, says WuDunn, is a hopeful...
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Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2021
Industry Spotlight Series: From Retail to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Retail Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan to...
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- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
strongly linked to the gender of the person they are competing against. “Women are competitive, but not in particular work environments or groups” "Women are competitive, but not in particular View Details
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by Kim Girard
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center
located in regions that play a vital role in the world economy, including Asia- Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and California’s Silicon Valley. Raina will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region View Details
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My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
Deshpandé says. “But if you look at whether it’s done anything to affect the sales of the product category, the answer is no. This is a big market by any standards, and it’s growing exponentially.” After all, the country’s preference for...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs mobilize to assist small business owners
Michael Baker (MBA 2014) and three of his HBS classmates hit the road last summer to create MBAs Across America (MBAxAmerica), a movement of MBAs and entrepreneurs working together View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
doing some very mundane things like digging up postholes and then trying to figure out how the posts were placed and what kind of roof they supported.” While she now holds a Ph.D. in the field, Rothberg’s passion for archaeology began as...
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- 2023
- Case
Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action
By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This case study centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to build momentum for, and ultimately pass, the 2015...
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Climate Change;
Negotiation;
Environmental Regulation;
International Relations;
Leadership
Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro, and Mina Subramanian. "Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2023. Electronic.