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Full text available. Created in 1961 by an executive order from John F. Kennedy, the President's Commission on the Status of Women was formed to gather information on issues concerning women's rights. The Commission's View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
revenue composition than budget mismanagement, as some observers have argued, says Green. “The fact that there were cuts along this dimension, I think, shows you that this is not just an issue of states being irresponsible,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
aren't purposefully bad, says Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has authored several business management books, including Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End and SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena." The School has assembled a... View Details
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Laura Sophie Wegner | MBA
solve social issues with technological solutions will make many of us cohort members life-long friends, and potentially even co-founders, who support each other beyond the fellowship. Tech areas of interest:... View Details
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...
periods. Now, in my role at RRE, I’m trying to find scalable solutions to some of the same challenges across different teams and industries. Another impetus for me going back to business school was to find a way to be more consistently engaged in the View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
evil and unoriginal. This raises a question: Is there a link between creativity and unethical behavior? “Dan and I started wondering whether there is something about the creative process that triggers dishonest behavior.” There certainly is, according to an article in... View Details
- 2021
- Case
Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
By: Michael Norris, Rawi Abdelal and Kimberlyn Leary
Keisha Lance Bottoms took office as Mayor of Atlanta in 2018 with a progressive agenda and hopes to “keep Atlanta moving forward, leaving no one behind.” She was an Atlanta native, had previously served as a local judge and city councilor, and came into office with... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; City; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Economy; Atlanta; United States
Norris, Michael, Rawi Abdelal, and Kimberlyn Leary. "Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms." Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Case 0036TC, 2021.
- November 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Teaching Note
Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P. (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Buenza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 411025. View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
Harvard Business School.] The CEO is undoubtedly the most powerful person in any organization. Yet any CEO who tries to use this power to unilaterally issue orders or summarily reject proposals that have come up through the organization... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose
philosophy, they were involved in a wide array of projects and initiatives. For example, some of my peers established non-profit organizations to advocate for social change, while others founded startup companies to design and launch... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
cultural, aesthetic, and social,” Koehn said at the opening session. When it came to issues that matter, she continued, “We organized the conference not just with respect to possibilities, but with respect to key questions,” a duality... View Details
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
initiatives and projects created by the School to foster interdisciplinary research on the great problems and opportunities facing society—including such topics as business and the environment, health care, US competitiveness, social... View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
careers," O'Mahony says. "In addition, they're moving in and out of contract work. There are a number of open research issues here, such as questions of health insurance and retirement. What we did was focus on a very specific... View Details
- January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.
EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music
By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
Deshpandé, Rohit. "Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 520-701, October 2019.
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. In an age... View Details