Risk Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

process more broadly to a variety of strategic challenges and at multiple levels throughout the organization. Teaching by Heart by Thomas Delong, Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Harvard Business Review Press Teaching by... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Research Online

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how nonprofit View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

the program. A PRIMO fellow last summer, Castro, a psychology major at Harvard College, was born in Dallas and raised in Central Mexico. Paired with Assistant Professor Susanna Gallani, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit at... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, the course was designed to help students understand the BRI from both an operations and a political-economy perspective. “China’s global efforts, especially its overseas... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top

a culture in business that does not tolerate “nodders” and “yes men,” neither in management nor in the boardroom. We need a culture that is willing, when necessary, to ask awkward and embarrassing questions and that insists on believable... View Details

15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Sep 2020
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Road Work

small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

08 Jan 2019
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Raising Prospects for Female Funders

the tools to manage the risks of this asset class. There are already more than 200 women participating as investors in Europe. And this is not the only place where they exist. There is a Rising Tide Africa... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

expectations; create and implement an effective customer-access strategy; capture and leverage the customer’s voice to set priorities and improve products, services, and marketing; and use customer-relationship- management systems,... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

first-date spot: In their online profiles, women got younger and men got taller. As the stigma of online dating faded, the idea arose that the Internet could make dating easier for everyone. Asking someone on a date via email was less of an emotional View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2018
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Lifelong Learning about Leadership

says Leslie H. Williams Jr. (MBA 2005), partner and chief revenue officer at Risk Cooperative. “The Reflective Leader teaches that success has many different meanings, and the common theme discussed was ensuring we remain true to... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!

proficient in English, or risk demotion. “I was simply astonished,” said one engineer interviewed after the announcement. “Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English.” At Rakuten, an online shopping mall that does not sell to... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2018
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Learning About Leadership

Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F.... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Mar 2018
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Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

rise of political risk and the decline in institutional trust—Harari’s masterful treatise on the history of Homo sapiens outlines intrinsic drivers for the complex world we live in and the future we may yet inherit. Harari’s work comes... View Details