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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
spent a lot of time on lately is removing amber-colored dried tape anchoring the corners of early 20th-century photos from the United Fruit Company archives. Seventy-five photo albums document decades of social and business history across... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
throughout your career. Early in your career, pick your boss, not your job. Seek those who give open and honest feedback, guidance, and support. Early success will help build confidence and competence. In the middle of your career, make an effort to contribute and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
others feel that the growing attention to the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and economic conditions in recent years have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin’s Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. “I was clueless going into... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
school board and other local institutions is the product of decades of nepotism and poor practices, she says—it can’t be pinned on a few bad actors. Any criminal activity will continue to be investigated and handled by law enforcement. Her goal is to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
he writes. In his working paper "Flexibility: The New Social Contract between Individuals and Firms?," Bradach studies independent contractors, companies that use their services, and staffing agencies that bring the two parties together.... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
gained influence. Influence transcended power, and power politics contrasted with quiet service. Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight by Elizabeth Gillan Muir (HRPBA 1958) (Dundurn Press) This is the story of how women in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
society, and it plays a critical role in addressing complex, entrenched challenges like health care, education, and the environment. Our faculty can help here; working together, the ideas they develop have the potential to influence... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
program at MIT. I feel very fortunate to have benefited from great educational institutions throughout my life. Perhaps the most important thing to share about my childhood is that my father was an extraordinary inspiration to me. In many ways, I think who I am today... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
set in 1972, involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include the KGB’s influence on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and Pakistan’s plan... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into disadvantage, among other issues. No... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
influence on the thousands of blind people it serves every year. Still, he wasn’t likely to take the job just because he happened to be a blind CEO. “Entering the blindness business was never really my objective at this stage in my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
influence through his writings, his speeches, and ARD’s annual meetings, in which its investment companies set up booths and enjoyed an opportunity to network and talk to potential investors. “He gave a dignity or a substance to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
HBS, in which two-thirds of the student body are members. Their activities, which are open to the entire HBS community, range from running conferences to leading study trips abroad and from organizing major social events to sponsoring... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
several unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter as they develop new businesses. The authors focus on factors that influence female entrepreneurs’ choices of business and industry — personal motivation, commitment, education,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
wanted to do with my life and career. As I listened to him, I realized that he’d figured it out. He wanted to do something that was important in the social context, to be successful in the business context, and to have a deep and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
who their competitors are around the world, which is a reflection of their own ambitions.” Growing Internet usage and changing social behavior have also created opportunities. WestBridge has invested in Travelguru, an online travel portal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna