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- 01 Jun 2003
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Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
desired by the customer has been an important source of confidence for the future. What has also remained constant throughout Bajaj's forty years at BAL has been the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility. Through... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
George H. Strong, MBA 1951
Barney, Ecuadorian Corporation, Arthur D. Little, American Medicorp, and Universal Health Services as “checkered,” he says he can’t think of a better way to prepare for the dynamic responsibilities that he encountered in the investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with View Details
- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
despite having these same qualities, aren’t in school due to circumstances out of their control. I am grateful to represent my family and friends at HBS. I view it as my responsibility to imbibe learnings in business school and teach them... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
answers. Participants are required to follow the HBS Online Academic Honesty Guidelines . Skipping questions by providing cursory responses or simply entering filler text is considered incomplete participation in the Program and will... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
depth and we were able to compare and contrast the leaders in some of these other high tech companies and why they've had different outcomes. We talked to a much broader basis about what is the public responsibility of View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
two-year MBA program. Glick's presentation focused on benevolent sexism. Unlike hostile sexism, which is an overt response to a perceived threat to male power, Glick said that benevolent sexism's reinforcement of the male-as-caretaker... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
corporations need corporate boards that are also ambitious and accommodative of them. According to the authors, good corporate governance and financial performance are the main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our Family. The case tracks Western Union's earlier CSR initiatives and how they resulted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
To Nancy F. Koehn, the history of the Irish rock band U2 has it all as a business case study: teamwork, leadership, creative destruction, branding, and strategy. Koehn's case "Bono and U2", co-written with Katherine Miller and Rachel K. Wilcox, reconstructs the story... View Details
- Summer 2012
- Article
How to Become a Sustainable Company
By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins and George Serafeim
Using field and survey data we identify the characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Trust; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Eccles, Robert G., Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim. "How to Become a Sustainable Company." MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (Summer 2012): 43–50.
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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details
Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation or Environment; Labor and Management Relations; United States; Europe
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey." Finnish Economic Papers 24, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 1–32.
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
remembered her humor, self-effacing nature, quiet reserve, and steely determination. In essence if not in name, Meroë Morse assumed the role of a chief advisor to the CEO of a major corporation at a time when the View Details
- 26 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”
unknown terrains that appealed to Felipe. “I discovered that I didn’t want a traditional corporate life,” he says. “I wanted a greater sense of ownership, the ability to see my impact on a business from beginning to end.” When Felipe... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
John Speer
something new. “The B-2 is an amazing aircraft, and I love flying,” John says, “but what I really enjoyed was being engaged in a large organization.” In his role as Wing Executive Officer, he was the “right-hand man” of a one-star general View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face difficult trade-offs across their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
optional, but we usually get about 45 players from a 53-man roster. In some ways it’s similar to an HBS case discussion in terms of how it’s structured—I open with a prayer, pose a discussion question, and write responses on the board,... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the... View Details