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11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

you need to distribute that resource to people with different skills and backgrounds, these types of tools can be immensely useful,” Paulson says. You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? What... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

22 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights

stakeholders). These coalitions serve more than a convening role. First, they reduce political risk by building critical mass. Because every business has its own legislative agenda, speaking up on a divisive issue, often in opposition to View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

at the DoubleTree Hotel. E – EC. EC stands for Elective Curriculum and represents students who are in their second year of the MBA program. In the second year, students can “elect” the classes they would like to take and customize their... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 May 2021
What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

made it clear that “we believe broad participation and trust in the election process are vital to its integrity.” Some of the signatories were recruited in a Zoom meeting of more than 100 CEOs organized by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent exception of 1998—suggests... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

Wilkins (MBA '70), and Terry L. Jones (MBA '74) and awards for civic and community service to Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA '72) and Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74). (Powell was also recently elected president of the HBS African-American Alumni... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

partisan issues. But we do advance science and document the consequences of decisions that we make as a society. And while businesses like GE, Wal-Mart, and Johnson & Johnson are showing real leadership on the environment, some of our national View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

love for storytelling. “It's not just about watching stocks go up or down,” she explained. “A country’s election or a medal won in the Olympics can affect the story of a currency on any given day. I learned the numbers and the selling... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Innovation, Inc.

entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control — so, obviously, creativity is a big factor.” In her new elective course, Leading Innovative Ventures, HBS... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

Davin Chow, Adam Prewett, and Kevin Yttre (all MBA ’08). Tripsas, who teaches the Linear case in the elective Leading Innovative Ventures, sees the instructive qualities of flexibility, experimentation, and risk management in Herp’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

June 2017 (Revised August 2018)
Supplement

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu

Supplements the (A) Case. View Details

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19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

2013 elections in Kenya, the Electoral Commission sent 11 million nonpartisan text messages to registered voters in an effort to boost electoral participation. The messages had a positive effect on turnout but also decreased trust in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

to get inside the system.” Nielsen decided to run for the Seattle school board and was elected in 1993. For the next eight years, he and other reformers on the board pushed through some remarkable changes, making Seattle one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

magnitude of the responsibility is incomparable. For example, the repair and maintenance of levees is a task requiring long-term vision and effort difficult to muster in a political environment in which deferred maintenance is an easy and invisible solution to budget... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

ambiguity, form an opinion, and defend it with while keeping an open mind when listening to others. In the second year of the program, we choose electives based on our interests. I am particularly enjoying my Strategy and Technology... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

a lowercase "i" as well. Every year about 20 percent of the cases in the MBA Program are new. So innovation could be a new elective that’s introduced. Or innovation could be refreshing one of the first-year courses that we all took many... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 May 2016
What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

been able to anticipate. As Duncan Philps-Tate noted, “This after all is the nation which elected H’Angus the Monkey (the local soccer team’s mascot) as Mayor of Hartlepool.” Those endorsing the name saw it as a way of popularizing a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

International Development Association (IDA). They meet at least weekly; the IBRD board currently has 24 members. (There is a separate board for the IBRD and the IDA, but the latter is basically a 95 percent subset of the former.) Countries are View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA '06)—wrote a paper on the "repotting" of the manufacturer Celanese.... View Details