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- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
term versus long term, fixed versus variable, and how to disperse compensation fairly among the firm. Growth Strategies, Risk Management, And Globalization Other issues of importance to the leader of modern-day financial View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
joined this train of thought as he commented, “A new economy has not arrived, if we define it as one that will sustain humanity on the planet for eternity ” The reasons it has not arrived are many, he continued. “(Unsustainable) global... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business,... View Details
- 2010
- Conference Presentation
Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation
By: Adrian Caldart, Roberto Vassolo and Luciana Silvestri
Keywords: Evolutionary Perspective On Strategic Management; International Business; Management; Organizational Design; Globalization
Caldart, Adrian, Roberto Vassolo, and Luciana Silvestri. "Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, 2010.
- 17 Mar 2022
- News
The Companies Boycotting Russia Are Demonstrating Six Key Values
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
organizations that embedded globalization and the differences that exist across countries into the heart of its model. It’s set up with the idea of unlocking value by leveraging the opportunities created by... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
delivery systems of both developing and advanced countries: fragmentation, inefficiency, and organization around discrete interventions (such as delivering drugs or screening) rather than integrated care. Porter and his colleagues aim to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
real company, a Global Partner, located in an emerging market. HBS has arranged for 140 organizations in 10 countries to serve as sounding boards for the students’ projects. (Students who can’t travel will... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
generation. “The work that I’m doing now is trying to create a global organization that makes our kids what they don’t become necessarily at school: good, effective, world-improving people. We want to do... View Details
- 04 Jan 2018
- News
How to Monetize Happiness
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a financial services operation to a... View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economist, Ashraf developed the idea of altruistic capital while conducting experimental field research for various global nonprofit organizations. But she believes that her findings on the subject will yield important lessons for the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
but also to develop reading, language, and comprehension skills. The data the organization collects—e.g., what’s interesting to young readers and how they access those books—is then shared with its partner View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
High-Level Impact
addition to advancing educational innovation, gifts to the HBS Fund fuel a more flexible economic model for the School and have an immediate impact on enduring priorities such as student financial aid, pathbreaking research, and global... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
the HBS Club of India—over the top. “We identified a significant global market and focused on an unmet but essential need, as health care is not optional,” says Mahesh, who got a very personal perspective on India’s deep deficit of... View Details