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- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
future investment bankers, consultants, and Fortune 500 leaders. "Hey, Stumm!" boomed a loud voice. I was astonished to see my Dartmouth buddies Giff Foley and Ken Wilson. Our last encounter had been at... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
becoming a Fortune 500 CEO. “I had very high aspirations,” says Beilharz, who was, by 1988, in top management at MetroCel, a major player in the then-budding cellular industry. “I was enthralled with my... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.
and badger the CEOs of their Fortune 500 employers to become our clients. Heck, someone from my section even introduced us on a blind date! My sectionmates have helped us over-celebrate minor feats and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
engine that ensures an optimal fit down to the level of soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed that the 25,000 small IT companies in Central and Eastern... View Details
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
school in terms of social enterprise and global entrepreneurship. Business schools were much more geared to Wall Street and Fortune 500 company management. Now, 20 years later, there are case studies on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
founding Pactual. Over the years, Jakurski has learned that successful investing in Brazil requires intimate knowledge of the country. The two most prominent kinds of outside investors, he observes, are "offshore portfolio managers, most of whom don't know the region... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- Web
A Polaroid Timeline 1932–1977 | Baker Library
Fortune 500 list of largest American corporations by revenue. 1965 Polaroid Model 20 Land Camera The Swinger, the Polaroid Model 20 Land Camera, is commercially launched. 1966 Morse becomes director of... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element, the corporate foundation, constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Fortune 500 companies, and studied the nonprofit involvement of executives in twelve companies. He found that 81 percent of the Harvard MBAs were volunteering and that 57 percent of the surveyed graduates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Fortune 500 company or becomes a partner at a well-respected professional services or private equity firm, she has excelled beyond the need for a training program. That is not to say that these programs... View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
to clean it again through my novel filter. I had filed the patent. Lined up suppliers. Met the ridiculous margin requirements of a Fortune 500 company. The category was declining. Our last two product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
no matter what I’m involved with, I’ll still bring the same tools to bear on it as I would if I were working at a Fortune 500 company. I approach the smallest problem in the same fashion as I would if it... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
survey of 200 mostly Fortune 500 companies found an "irreversible process" of traditional white-collar jobs being sent to Asia, said Arie Lewin, a professor and director of the Center for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Watkins, an expert on leadership transition, presses his case for “accelerating” the critical transition period that begins when a new CEO — or a new manager at any level — is hired. Watkins estimates that more than a half-million managers enter new positions each year... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
Thompson-Woode says. “I’m one of the few to break through, and I’m making sure I pass on that knowledge I’ve gained at HBS.” Thompson-Woode is now working as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She’s studied the careers of women executives in View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
leaders in each field. They present insights from interviews with top executives in six industries: private equity, management consulting, hedge funds, investment banking, the management of Fortune 500... View Details