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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
philosophy is equal opportunity for everyone, but you can’t guarantee results. We are a meritocracy.” Her own experience with education is one reason why Chao, a 1993 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award, wants to “help promote and View Details
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Government
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
the IT department or needed to coordinate their launches with help from sales representatives in the field. Jim Kilts encouraged the formation of operating committees in each business unit or regional group, and then further View Details
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
around the world adapt and lead. Climate jobs have never more robust or exciting. From transportation to tech to agriculture, regardless of your experience, I’d encourage all MBAs to make climate a part of your next role." Nathan Nemon...
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- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
residents ." More were skeptical of this view, suggesting that either subsidies or taxes or both will be required to: (1) raise market prices for carbon-based energy in developed countries, (2) encourage the development of new...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
through the arts - purposes that cannot be more effectively addressed at the state or local level. Among the federal initiatives that meet the public purposes definition are: Making the arts more accessible; Encouraging and promoting the...
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Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
around the world adapt and lead. Climate jobs have never more robust or exciting. From transportation to tech to agriculture, regardless of your experience, I’d encourage all MBAs to make climate a part of your next role." Nathan Nemon...
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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
for example, I track how much I floss. And in many ways that's just as a way to encourage myself to floss more. I just often forget. For the fitness ones, I actually have a point system. And the points literally mean nothing. I share them...
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- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
small, 35-person Workplace Gender Equality Agency not only as a resource for business, but also as an advocate for societal change. Its current initiatives include a toolkit for companies that want to perform a gender-pay-gap audit and a campaign to View Details
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April White
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Rob Self
spouses and partners. I wanted her to be part of the experience. At HBS, she’s invited and welcomed to the same events; there’s no discrimination between who is going to school and who is the partner.” With a long-term goal of encouraging...
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Nneka Ezeigwe
We didn’t win the competition, but we’re still going to move forward. Being in the right place with the right people has encouraged me to try something new. What might people find surprising about you? I ended up being a chemical...
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Manufacturing/Energy
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Jonathan Assayag
chance encounter with a fellow Brazilian led to a new direction. "We were at a conference for the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers," Jonathan explains. "He worked as a Senior Manager at Accenture, and when he learned of my interest in...
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Eric Chavez
authority to include social responsibility goals into business missions to have greater impact outside a P&L.” “The HBS faculty encourage us to see things from different perspectives, to see the implications of our choices, to...
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Behrad Mahdi
natural to us when we leave here." Not just a solo effort Yet Behrad also insists that the case method does more than encourage individual excellence. "When you're sitting in a class of 90 people, you're getting the benefit of...
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- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
differ from those who seem most similar – and how much you share with those who couldn’t seem more different. There is something deeply humanizing about discovering this. You appreciate different community identities – but you also learn to see people as individuals in...
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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity
support, HBS will take four steps to encourage new research and course development. First, we will empower the Racial Equity Initiative to serve as a hub for HBS faculty and doctoral students, visiting scholars, and others who study race,...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Theatricals. One of the great 14-year-old Tevyes in a summer-camp production of Fiddler on the Roof. Disney was my foot in the door. While churning out budgets and quarterly projections as a finance executive, I took a sitcom-writing class at UCLA Extension. I loved...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
enterprise. We are very encouraged by the interest and enthusiastic feedback we’ve received about our pilots. We are planning a second session of The Reflective Leader for next year, and we are also working with the first cohort to find...
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
the number of participants needed, and what incentives to provide. In most instances, he recommends that “an organization’s internal problem solvers should define the parameters of a challenge rather than attempt to solve it, encourage...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's...
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Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne