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- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a variety of programs developed by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
offer at an existing organization or you are a founder of a new venture. A full-time job is defined as working 35 hours or more per week with a projected tenure of 12 months or longer. A note for joiners: the Review Committee's preference... View Details
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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back - MBA
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- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
richest and most developed countries maintained very high levels of protection for agricultural products, far higher than before 1913.3 The advent of floating exchange rates permitted a huge explosion in international finance markets from... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
information when it determines the value of sharing would be low and “the distraction it would cause would be significant.” This prompts the subject of our conversation today: Should compensation data be shared inside organizations? On what should a decision depend?... View Details
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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA
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How to Fit in at HBS - MBA
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- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
trustee of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and serves on boards of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and the University of Illinois College of Engineering. Mr. Burgstone actively supports View Details
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Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club - MBA
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
environmental issues as they relate to business. Here are the offerings for 2024-2025. Your Second Year Core Business & Environment Courses Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks (Fall 2024) John Macomber This course prepares students to invest in, advise, or lead... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
1890s, a commissioner and Civil War veteran named Col. George Waring introduced such modern practices as street-sweeping and a uniformed workforce organized along military lines. He even launched something resembling a modern recycling... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
had established a reputation as a provider of some of the district's best-prepared new teachers. Yet Solomon wondered if their approach so far was optimal going forward. Carol Johnson, the new superintendent for BPS, was developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
perfumes were reminiscent of one individual "note"—to employ the musical metaphor used in the industry—which tried to replicate nature. The new perfumes had a vastly increased range of scents; were far more abstract, with three notes; and... View Details
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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade
partners found that they could increasingly count on credit as a way of doing business, enabling them to acquire goods for American clients with far more capital than the company had. By 1860 the Heard & Co. purchases came to $1.5... View Details
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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
of its wheels. Free to be lifted unencumbered. And not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship." In many ways, McLean's vision was nothing new. As far back as 1929, Seatrain had carried... View Details