Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

MBA degrees handed out nationally. But more importantly, HBS was cementing its identity, centered on the powerful pedagogy of the case method and on the entire MBA experience as a unique View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2018
News

Photo courtesy of Deborah Singer Photo courtesy of Deborah Singer For all of its innovation, the tech sector still lags behind the general economy in gender parity, and the news is only getting worse: Whereas the percentage of women in... View Details

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would require expensive storage View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

Business schools have sometimes taught that shareholder-value maximization is the holy grail, the sole proper focus of corporate managements. So I ask, should managements be focused solely on a company’s share price, which itself is ephemeral, View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

also be enduring as they age? —Eric Martin (MBA 1990) HUBERT: There’s no denying 15-year-olds have a very different daily reality than 34-year-olds. But powerful forces have shaped the contours of the generation, tectonic plates acting on... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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A Helping Hand

economic power to really shape the world, and that always stuck with me.” Rice subsequently founded a nonprofit organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), to help educate young people about,... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

feedback and buy-in he got from parents, teachers, administrators, and students with making the continuity of learning plan work. “In Leading People, there was a module about focusing on your message. It... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

retirees' medical benefits. And the CEO, CFO, and many board members were shown the door. The concessions from all sides were remarkable, given that the powers of the task... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

I've ever done." A series of afternoon panels were organized around "hot topics," such as cultivating a mentor and building a career, strategies for personal and professional success, women as negotiators,... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

you have performed much more than adequately to have lasted so long; and a confidence that having come this far, you are well prepared to meet all future challenges." "The nation's business community," Graves said, "continues to reserve... View Details

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

landslides, power and transportation outages, and $1.3 billion in damages. Takeuchi says, “our plans for a joyful celebration of T ō hoku’s rise from the 2011 disaster” shifted... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

arm’ s length, that inherent cronyism makes it difficult to clean house when high-level insiders turn out to be bad apples. A CEO once said to me, “Business is the last monarchy.” All the recent disclosures about the incredible privileges, perks, View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Thursday, February 23, more than 60 alumni and guests gathered in Florida to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in Palm... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

In a speech he delivered the day before his graduation from HBS, Class Day speaker John Crowley (MBA '97) observed, "In time, we will all acquire a certain amount of responsibility and power. I encourage each of us to use that View Details

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Initiative Welcome to the fourth annual Gender & Work research symposium. This year’s theme, "Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative," addresses the power of... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Turning Point: Crossover

with the foster kids there reinforced for me the power of coaching as a platform for teaching positive values and life skills, all while being involved in a game I love. A few years later, I began volunteer... View Details

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

relative to your body and where they are relative to each other,” says Hawkins. In this model, the brain is a powerful mapmaker, understanding, for instance, that these little black letters you are reading... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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