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01 Mar 2012
News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

providing advice for communicating more clearly why English proficiency is important for Rakuten’s future. “This is not just a Japanese company issue,” Mikitani points out. “Other companies doing global business also have been segregated... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

setting to analyze the impact of Gen AI for a company or business function. You will have access to HBS Enterprise GPT account and no code Gen AI builder tools for the course project. Classroom Conduct and... View Details

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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Bulletin More HBS RSS Feeds: Alumni Baker Library New Books Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS Working Knowledge MBA Admissions Harvard Business School Alumni Business & Environment... View Details

Research Summary

Institutions and Corporate Lobbying

“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”

In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details

Keywords: Institutions; Make V. Buy; Lobbying; Legitimacy; Corruption; Culture; Multinational Enterprise; United States

08 Oct 2015
News

Meet the 2015 Harvard Business School Leadership Fellows

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Barbara Hackman Franklin Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS Working Knowledge MBA Admissions Harvard Business School Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship... View Details

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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Climate Fellows The BiGS Climate Visiting Fellows are scholarly researchers who focus on the intersection of business and climate change, deepening our commitment to accelerating research aimed at mitigating and adapting to global climate... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS.... View Details

24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

recent graduates who took CS50 to learn what the class is all about. Samuel Gooch (MBA 2015) worked in renewable energy consulting before HBS and is now an engineering program manager at Apple. Sloan Holzman (MBA 2015) formerly worked at a social View Details

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Summers as the successor to Ben Bernanke. That saga left many people in business and finance concerned. If politicians in Washington, DC, are having an argument about something as do-or-die as the debt ceiling, they thought, what are the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

November – December 2008
Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships

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20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

To Nancy F. Koehn, the history of the Irish rock band U2 has it all as a business case study: teamwork, leadership, creative destruction, branding, and strategy. Koehn's case "Bono and U2", co-written with Katherine Miller and Rachel K.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2022
News

Business as a Force for Good in Society

effort is the newly established Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), an ambitious, interdisciplinary enterprise that provides a research-based platform for the School’s faculty to... View Details

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By: Dutch Leonard

Professor Leonard's research focuses on understanding the role of leadership in the development of strategy and processes for execution in private sector and socially-oriented organizations, including an emphasis on innovation, uncertainty, building successful adaptive... View Details

Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Social Business; Social Capital; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Risk Management; Crisis Management

April 2013
Teaching Note

New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz

This case involves the founding and early life of a new bank enterprise in San Francisco with a commitment to the cause of sustainability. It illustrates the opportunities and challenges of banking on values and of specifying and making explicit the practical... View Details

Keywords: Business And Society; Entrepreneurial Management; Growth Strategy; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Banking Industry; San Francisco