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Georges F. Doriot
before that became a politically correct dictate. He used his classroom to impart a holistic view of the business world. “He was convinced that if students were to succeed in business, they had to see their work as part of a larger... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
beyond addressing the immediate need for shelters and adopt a more holistic development plan? How should they acquire technical expertise and organize themselves to successfully execute this effort? The case focuses on how businesses can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
encourage partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients' increasingly global and complex needs. In 2007, under Smith's leadership, the partnership agreed to implement holistic change, which included shifting from geographical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library
framework of corporate strategy, the concept of looking at a company’s goals, policies, organization, and values from a holistic perspective. HBS Professor Joseph L. Bower noted: “With Professor C. Roland Christensen and others, Ken... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
appropriate systemic connections to effectively distribute solutions. Thus, these challenges cannot be dealt with by one profession or institution acting alone; indeed, effective action most often occurs at the intersections of professional and institutional fields.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
improvement, and holding people accountable for results. The authors propose a holistic framework that district leaders can use to develop an improvement strategy and build coherent organizations to implement it. The framework is based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and chairperson, Fazle Hasan Abed, was knighted in 2010 by the British Crown for his service in reducing poverty. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
and market new programs and services, such as certification in "bodywork" (massage and related practices) and holistic health instruction, as well as a new program that focuses on preventive health care. "This is an incredible... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
holistic childhood development, and livelihood training for youth between the ages of 6 to 18. By 2017, there were 400,000 children in its various programs. The organization had been through three phases of growth. The case poses the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
someone who fits these criteria, boards may find that many talented CIOs and CTOs drop off the list of potential IT committee members.) The IT expert must have not only a solid grounding in the firm's overall business needs but also a View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
course, we need to have a holistic view of ESG.” But in my view this reality has not yet been sufficiently reflected in our finance courses at HBS. So we’re trying to bring this important phenomenon from the real world to the classroom,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
"but it's more than just living longer. That's the quantity; we're working on the quality. If you work at understanding the causes and triggers of degeneration—thinking in a holistic way about what happens to the body during aging—you can... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
problems at companies with strong incentives and weak controls. I believe that we may need a new kind of external agency for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey Jones Edward Elgar Publishing... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
points an hour. If I sleep less than 6 and 1/2 hours, it subtracts 20 points an hour. So a bunch of little things like that that give me a relatively holistic view of how that day was from just a well-being point of view. And then, again,... View Details
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
philanthropists. After three years in finance I was ready to come to HBS to build a more holistic skillset. At work, it is easy to fall into a given professional function, or limit your engagement to thinking only about the performance of... View Details