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- 01 Feb 2002
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Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
From Resource Allocation to Strategy by Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert (Oxford University Press) Drawing on thirty years of research on resource allocation, Professor Bower and Assistant Professor Gilbert discuss the structural... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
the country in the 1970s and 1980s - ideas such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) - are currently undergoing fundamental changes and offer fascinating research possibilities. With the globalization of Japan's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus (Wiley) An emerging business trend is for companies to go beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and to integrate them... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
professor Mukti Khaire. “This idea was referred to and expanded upon often throughout the conference.” Khaire noted that the issue of social and environmental concerns and the need to address these problems in a creative manner was also a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program is here. In addition to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial success with View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
spearheaded the evening’s programming, along with the club’s new president Ellen Galezewski (MBA 2012), past president Karen Hung (MBA 1998), vice president for programs Melanie Maddux (MBA 2004), and board member Lisa Wright (MBA 1999). “This event was View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
museum’s “incredibly supportive and creative building committee.” Working with skilled professionals from a wide range of disciplines is something Houston did often in her experience at New York City’s Lincoln Center, first as an HBS View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Torfason is an instructor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches the first-year course The Entrepreneurial Manager. His research focuses on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
differential in rates. In 1986, the US government equalized the rates, and we saw no difference in the activity of people investing. Also, for the life of me, I don’t understand the rationale behind the 15 percent carried interest rate, which I have to admit I have... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
wondering if he’d seemed a bit radical, even a little draconian. But now, of course, they’re getting it. David has been really calm and wonderfully informative, which helps to ease anxiety about it.” The conversation has gone far beyond hygiene and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
the social ROI of their services. “We’re helping one of our new clients to quantify the benefit it produces for its stakeholders, which will help in both management and marketing,” Chussil says, noting that the current projects are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment center in the United States. The organization radically reconfigured its View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
Julian Zlatev and Christine Exley (Image by John Ritter) Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became interested in the topic as a... View Details