Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019

accordance with the donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. Harvard is obligated to preserve the purchasing power of the endowment by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending... View Details

27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Apr 2000
News

HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June

professor Dwight B. Crane, who is serving as faculty organizer for the Berlin conference. "The program has been designed to stimulate discussion on a broad range of topics among individuals who have the power to forge new business View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

sellers can be highly mobile, although subject to licensure by states. Therefore, you want a national (or international) pool of sellers, and you want it to be as large as possible as soon as possible. —Roger Cole (MBA 1985) While this is... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

in place, then it becomes about speaking truth to power, and artists are so good at that. In fact, it's one of the very few asymmetric systems of power that exists. One person with a guitar, Bob Dylan with a... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in... View Details

17 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 14, more than 200 alumni in the New Your area gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in New York:... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

offers a powerful alternative for identifying value-price gaps. The authors provide everything the reader needs to utilize the discounted cash flow model successfully. And they add an important twist: They... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance

01 Jun 2012
News

Giving Together

creation of a fund in his name. The response shows the power of group giving with an impressive $1.3 million raised from 20 HBS classmates and friends toward the Robert E. Bennett Memorial Fellowship. Such a... View Details

15 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap Cover image features Mavath R. Chandran (left) and Ghassan E. Nuqul (right). The average American consumer today considers whether the everyday goods... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Noted & Quoted

founder and CEO, Vostu.com. (Financial Times, March 20, 2011) “Do you think the world is out to get you? Go ahead, be a little paranoid. That’s my management tip for today.” — HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, on the View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

Profile

Jonathan Arena

five." Jonathan’s grandfather worked at the Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company in Gardner, Massachusetts; his father “is an amateur photographer and professional writer – and he had his own business,... View Details

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

chicken. If I'm going to have Earl gray or green tea. At the end of the day being decisive, which is the antidote to both of these things, is about finding the power to choose what you actually want and... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

and Fortune ranked her among the 50 most powerful women in American business. Business Week said you had "worked magic" at Banana Republic. What has your strategy been? I would love to take the credit for... View Details

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

waste picker who collects them from local households. The business in turn cleans and strips the boxes down to resell them to local businesses who use them informally as transportation and stock storage.... View Details

30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

Scout.” The 30-second spot, with a catchy new anthem by Liz Rose and Emily Shackleton (both Girl Scout alumnae), will air on cable networks in 2017. But Pitter-Armand knows she has an even more powerful... View Details