Professor Charles Williams - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

included Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus professor of business history, who put deglobalization in historical context; and Karim Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson professor of business... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Research Links - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

13, 1922). Four Men & A Foundation: A. Lawrence Lowell, Wallace B. Donham, William Lawrence, George F. Baker. Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1993. Gay, Edwin. “The Founding of Harvard Business... View Details

17 Feb 2011
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Field Report: Rwanda

middle ground of companies that employ 50 to 100 people — somewhere between the nonprofit that would get help from USAID and bigger, for-profit firms served by traditional consulting companies.” For his project, Barry teamed up with classmates Mariam Dombrovskaja and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

March 2010
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Leading in Crisis: Lessons for Safety Leaders

By: William George and Charles R. Denham, MD

Keywords: Leadership

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08 May 2015
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An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society

Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how... View Details

21 May 2019
News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

world on which they ultimately depend,” said HBS professor Forest Reinhardt (MBA 1987), who moderated a panel focused on the impact of climate change as part of two panels at the event titled “Confronting Climate Change: Opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

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Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Organizations, and Markets and Organizational Behavior Units at HBS. Jamillah Williams Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown As a sociologist and legal scholar, Williams... View Details

07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect

philanthropy, organized by Professor William Sahlman. He and Armour have also attended several conferences on the HBS campus devoted to nonprofits working to fight specific diseases. Attendees come away with... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017

Administration Leemore Dafny Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration Karim R. Lakhani Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Ramana Nanda... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Books

to the next level. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at HBS, and Norton (DBA '73), president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc., found that the diverse companies that used the balanced scorecard... View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; and William Lever, of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

developed a new way to teach capital markets, resulting in wide-ranging course materials and a successful book, The Financial System (with the late HBS professor William White). He also wrote a number of... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

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Map & Directions | About

positive within the past 5 days. Masks are optional and available at many locations throughout the HBS campus. Find a Building on Google Maps Directions by Car From Logan Airport: Follow signs for I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike/Ted View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

current and aspiring leader to reach their full, authentic potential. Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World By George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams View Details

20 Nov 2014
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Strengthening America's Public Education System

“For young Americans to succeed in today’s workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world’s best,” says Jan Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. He explains that because of this, education is an... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

turns out it's tough—particularly a multi-billion-dollar market." Professors like Joseph Lassiter and William Sahlman, and their lessons about entrepreneurial finance and the diffusion of innovations,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

June 1993 (Revised June 1993)
Teaching Note

U.S. Windpower, Inc. (B) TN

By: Charles Christenson and William J. Bruns Jr.

Keywords: United States