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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the View Details
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Tiffany Niver
efforts in and out of work on women's issues and enable women to succeed in business around the world. How did HBS prepare you for your summer internship & long term career? HBS best prepared me to always have an objective and goal in... View Details
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Kevin Nazemi
all your classes.” Healthy ambitions Pursuing the joint degree opens Kevin to “an interplay of business and government that’s essential, especially in health care, where private/public partnership is a necessity. The Kennedy School enables an understanding of how to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education needs of children in the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
Ashley Garrett and Alan K. “AJ” Jones’s term as HBS Fund Chairs began on July 1, 2015. The couple, who are both members of the MBA Class of 1987, are longtime Harvard supporters. They will serve as the School’s chief fundraising... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
"wins" be sufficiently significant to foster longer term development in the field? Is it too early to tell? What do you think? Original Article Are you ready for "neuro everything" in management? The year 2007 will see... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
and having an impact. Using what you know to learn what you don't and really. Taking the skills I had from news of being able to work with very imperfect information and to tell stories that connected to people. That created community. And figure out why the world... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
itself. Ten months later, in April 2014, they looked at the same products and found that Amazon had started directly selling 4,852—or 3 percent—of the very same products. Next, the researchers set out to determine why Amazon had decided to sell these particular... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
these innovations exist. (The remaining imperatives: Make value the central objective; promote novel approaches to process improvement; make consumerism really work; and decentralize approaches to problem solving.) "Health care, in terms... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
short term but, in reality, the promotion stole largely from future sales with taxpayers subsidizing over half a million new car sales that would have occurred anyway. C4C disrupted the even flow of supply and demand. New car buyers held... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
commercial hub. Q: On the larger topic of Africa, which appears to have been left behind in the globalization movement, where do you see Africa heading over the next twenty years, in terms of economic development? A: Hopefully, the next... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
Professor Kanter termed "the air conditioning paradox" – the cycle where cooling systems that combat rising temperatures simultaneously contribute to climate change through their energy consumption. Blue Frontier's innovative technology... View Details
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
expression, as well as factors that impede authenticity in every day work interactions. Her research has centered on employee silence, and the degree to which members suppress personal values and pretend to embrace those of the organization, a behavior she has View Details
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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
situations. More specifically, it examines how the exigencies of intense turbulence act as crucibles in which ordinary people (and their teams) make themselves capable of doing extraordinary things—first, internally, and then, in terms of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
For me, being part of a team that created a space for these stories to be heard and acknowledged—to create a dialogue—was a new form of social impact. I’ve also grown a lot as a leader, in terms of building a team from scratch and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. She chose companies that aspire to excellence... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published in 2004." Since then, Schultz has visited some 400 communities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
the exception of some work done on multinational corporations by HBS professor emeritus Chris Bartlett. It’s only recently that there’s been a resurgence of interest. We wanted to capture that moment.” Lawrence and Lorsch’s book essentially defined a field, introducing... View Details