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- 15 Nov 2024
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
and increasing societal inequality are. The invisible hand is, by definition, invisible. Also, tragically, in a capitalist society (but really in any system), individual or corporate greed can run amuck.... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Rewane was awarded a full scholarship to HBS, sponsored by the SevenUp Bottling Company. She found the HBS curriculum and the student, faculty, and alumni networks equally... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
intense exposure to news of business leaders' alleged (and in some cases proven) acts to deliberately mislead investors, employees, and others, we are naturally interested in greater transparency. And it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
size of the company's assets? The management of financial risks is not just a matter of "protecting" the firm against adverse events. A: As an accounting identity, the total value and the total risk of the assets of the firm... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
standpoint and equally important to all of our futures in its potential solve complex health problems,” said Steve Pagliuca. “We are thrilled to be able to contribute to the innovation movement at Harvard... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
equally well within and between companies. Cross-company implementations, however, are still comparatively rare. We see them between large and technically sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Regardless of the degree to which we feel leaders are made rather than born, the concept of the crucible of leadership raises a number of questions for us, some of which are posed by the authors of Geeks and Geezers. If crucibles of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
his day. Free refills, finding $5 in a coat pocket, that sort of thing. The blog, called 1000 Awesome Things started garnering a huge following and turned into a series of successful books. Last year, Neil released The Happiness Equation,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
Edited by Julia Hanna Courtesy Michael Aft Courtesy Snigdha Sur Courtesy Michael Aft Courtesy Snigdha Sur Michael Aft (MBA 2019) and Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) would be the first to acknowledge that launching a digital media startup out of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
continues to be a prominent advocate for women's equality and empowerment in the workplace. Moving easily between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, she has served... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries.... View Details
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2.3.3 Non-Discrimination & Anti-Bullying | MBA
2.3.3 Non-Discrimination & Anti-Bullying It is the strong and consistent policy of the Harvard Business School to treat all members of our community with respect, to provide an environment conducive to learning View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future
the research, and the facilities. Alumni are truly vested in the future of this great institution. Dean Jay Light has led the School under extremely difficult circumstances over the past five years. Our new Dean will face the View Details
Keywords: Ann Kelly
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
users. Furthermore, they suggest that users may become so enamored of the technology that their contact with friends and family is diminished. On a societal level, note Bradley and Bane, "broadband may prove... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
thought highly efficient and capable of helping many children,” says Taylor. “Then, a middleman ran away with the money, and I thought, ‘Oh goodness, this reminds me that due diligence is View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
adding the software was very large. The engineers undoubtedly felt the pressure of a long-standing culture comprising equal parts of pride, arrogance, and fear. The Company is still recovering from the costs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
that’s faster and safer—and they’re able to build new facilities where needed. But equally important is the higher quality of work and life for the teams: “They're happy View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon