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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to...
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
interview Erik Snyder (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of the Drawdown Fund, which invests growth capital to scale businesses that are reducing emissions or sequestering greenhouse gases. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges of...
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- September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake...
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Wells, John R., Carole A. Winkler, and Benjamin Weinstock. "Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World." Harvard Business School Case 720-373, September 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
materials, so Verghese resolved to grow the cotton locally. He soon found himself operating one of the largest cotton plantations in Africa. Now, as CEO of his own trading company, Singapore-based Olam International Ltd., Verghese makes...
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- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
know what they're driving at, but they don't always bother to tell everyone what's in their head, and if they do, the translation is not always clear," Kanter says. "So CEOs make speeches all the time and think everyone is...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I build my business in this environment? What should leaders...
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by Staff
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
tools and frameworks they’ve developed themselves or learned from professional training.” Internal coach Internal coaches (sometimes called “Talent Development”) usually have the same skills or training as external coaches and are hired...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
Joe Lhota (MBA 1980) is the kind of courageous, steady presence you want at your side when crisis hits. Consider Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, when New York City’s streets, tunnels, and subway lines were flooded, and power was cut to many businesses and residences....
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
for growth become a primary objective, pulling these firms away from their foundational north star: CEO and C-suite management consulting. In pursuing additional opportunities, consulting firms have widely diversified the industry breadth...
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Meralis T. Hood Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private Partnerships SEI25 View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Extending goodwill to all in the global community
As a person who is blind, Jim Gibbons (MBA 1994) is no stranger to workforce challenges. In his role as president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, he leads initiatives that improve lives, benefit communities, and help the...
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- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound...
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- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this...
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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
course. "I think every parent whose child is diagnosed with autism becomes an advocate to some extent," she says. "Everyone goes to the walks, but there are a handful of people who want to take their professional training and use their View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
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- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
Class Day/Commencement 2013 Photos by Russ Campbell "With meaning, any job can become a calling," former Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) told 901 MBA, 7 DBA, and 8 joint PhD graduates during Class Day ceremonies on May 30....
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Mi Zhou
of Chinese businesses,” she says, “is rapid growth that overtakes corporate governance. In many cases, there’s very loose control over the business. I worked with one client that had business units making up their accounting numbers. In another company, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
CEO of Banana Republic, with concurrent responsibility for all of parent company Gap Inc.’s Internet businesses, and, most recently, as president and CEO of Walmart.com. A View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
(think data analytics) as global competition for skilled workers increases. Matthew Breitfelder’s (MBA 2002) transition to the field came midcareer, after stints as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce, a corporate...
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Julia Hanna