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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence —... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
management itself, the times seem ripe for reopening the question of what exactly this institution is for, what functions we as a society want it to perform, and how well it is performing them. Great... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
done. Any contractor offering a payoff to Roshan was immediately blacklisted. Any employee caught taking or offering a bribe was instantly fired. “In emerging markets, you have to be very persistent and clear in your messaging—dogmatic,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
venture capitalists and the amount invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Rosabeth, you mentioned the structure and design of the organization as possibly contributing to the current problems. What improvements can be made? Kanter: We need more external information — both... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
ChildrenU.S. has responded to changing societal norms. A second case considered how NGOs can improve their organizational performance by using strategic frameworks from the private and public sectors.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
enhance their skills, give them the basis to perform like experienced teachers from the show. What have you learned about online learning? What works? Where we need to improve things? Can it become a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
life plan), and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Today Weinstein is the president and CEO of the Brevard Music Center, an institute and summer festival for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer to customize existing systems and equipment rather than installing the latest fancy technology. “Their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
crumbling infrastructure, and high unemployment these days — is the $842 million National Gateway rail-transport improvement project. CSX is putting up half of the price tag, while six states and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
way to structure an institution that performs those functions?" The spirit of it is to try to devise a way of thinking about institutional change in an organized way in the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso