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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
With the exception of New York University, HRPBA boasted the greatest number of female students in business administration. Individuals like Margaret Earhart, an activist for workers' rights as well as a faculty member, helped to sustain...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
to death.” Then in October 2000 came euphoria: Milosevic had fallen. Old friends in Belgrade, anti-Milosevic activists familiar with Djelic's talents and experience, pleaded for him to return and help rebuild. “How could I stay and lead...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
"the hugging preacher," Coverdale "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." Known fondly as "the hugging preacher," Coverdale "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." Through his work as a community activist...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education by Don Nielsen (MBA 1963) (Discovery Institute) How would an entrepreneur reform education? Nielsen draws on his business career and two decades as a school activist to offer...
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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“That was what I wanted for a career.” Shilla’s ambitions have deep roots within her family. Her mother grew up under a military dictatorship in South Korea, where she was “an activist under great peril.” Her father grew up in the deep...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
activist investor Third Point Management. The activist had criticized Dow’s recent performance and advocated that the company split itself to maximize its potential. The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
that patients may feel are necessary; and squeezing down compensation for talented physicians and hospitals. Indeed, activist American consumers even rebel against perfectly rational HMO tactics like reducing hospital lengths of stay....
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- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
influential business leader. Annise Parker spoke to us about her transition from gay rights activist to being a Mayor of a major U.S. city and how she navigated the discrimination and bumps she hit along the way. Today, Annise is the...
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- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
intervention at the national, regional or state levels. Increased consumer concern about climate change is also putting pressure on brands and retailers, which will continue to drive change throughout the food supply chain. Impact investors and View Details
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Agriculture
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the government and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
founder of Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers across Africa, and Ela Bhatt, Indian activist and founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India. The interviews, many on video, are intended to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
activist who is responsible for saving hundreds of thousands of Africans’ lives. When the history of business in the early twenty-first century comes to be written, all of these and other people will play big roles. Historians usually...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
theories of how social activists inspire changes in organizational norms, beliefs, and practices, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to adopt practices consistent with the aims of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Teaching Commission, a nonprofit organization that seeks to change how public school teachers are trained and compensated. A longtime activist for education reform, Gerstner is passionate when discussing this issue. "The leaders in our...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
economic thought and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49787 Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund activist, Pershing Square had quietly amassed a 9.7% stake in Allergan prior to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
marry the high level of governance expected by shareholders with the entrepreneurial spirit that had driven Hikma’s growth and development. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-086 Sachem Head's Activism at...
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Dina Gerdeman