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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
corporate culture. Pro bono work At Intuit, we give free tax preparation software to any American with an adjusted gross income of $25,000 or less — about 45 percent of the population. The tax system is so mind-bendingly complex that it's... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
We contribute to institutional theory by identifying selective disclosure as a corporate symbolic strategy and by revealing how scrutiny and norms limit this symbolic behavior. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
even firms with successful funds have struggled to make use of the knowledge gained from start-up investments. Six steps can help companies avoid the pitfalls. Align goals. Corporate venture funds are more successful if the business of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
decision to invest in a very large and very risky project. If done as part of the corporate balance sheet, there is a possibility that the project could drag the parent or "sponsoring" company into... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Encyclopedia Britannica. A little less, maybe the World Book. Neither of my parents went to college. In our case, they struggled to buy a letter a week of the encyclopedia available through the A&P, where we bought groceries. That was how... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
and days when you feel like you are invincible. On those rough days, try to take some time to decompress and to get some space from the business. I find that leaving and unplugging from technology for a few hours usually does the trick." What's it like working with... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
of Milwaukee, I witnessed the impact of a rapidly changing economy on my neighbors’ lives. Every day on the way to school, I rode past shuttered manufacturing plants that once employed tens of thousands of our residents. Despite living in a divided city, my View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
Program - Corporate Leadership Staff. Erika lives in Houston with her husband (HBS Section-mate) and their two young daughters. Work experience: Russell Reynolds Associates (Executive Director, Executive Search & Leadership, Culture... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
International Dinner on May 29. The black-tie event brought together more than four hundred HBS alumni and other business leaders at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. In his speech, Paulson emphasized the need for corporations and Wall Street to... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
communities globally at GE Money; at IBM he helped to develop the company’s corporate citizenship strategy and launched a leadership program for school administrators in partnership with HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “I’ve always... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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 describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
grew there were increasing pressures to integrate with the parent company. While Atan believed that this would destroy the unique culture and positioning of Enpara, senior management was wondering whether to spin it off or merge it with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
Life & Leadership After HBS Tradeoffs & Time Limits: Work & Life for Dual-Career Families Juggling responsibilities at home and work is challenging for both men and women, particularly those parenting young children. Drawing on the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
developments. The Case Method Miracle by Anne Jones (MBA 1997) Crimson Square Press “Socrates created it. Harvard Business School perfected it. We parent with it; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Kids get grit and wise judgment.” View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
served as consultants, facilitating interactions between those teams and their corporate sponsors. For a project with General Motors, Dorothea Carraway (HBS '00) and her teammates took their cues from GM's Adam D. Bernard (MBA '90) and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Patrick Chun
immersed him not only in student leadership and Skydeck360, but also in two varied field studies. The first is a case he co-authored that investigates the joint free-trade zone between North and South Korea. "It takes a leadership and View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
committee's board of trustees was going to call: Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney (MBA '74, JD '75). Although he is a Massachusetts resident, Romney's Utah roots run deep: his ancestors journeyed west with Brigham Young, his parents were... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne