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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Non-Government Organizations in the 21st Century by John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander (Thomson South-Western) Using twelve HBS cases, Professor Quelch and Laidler-Kylander (MBA ’92) examine how NGOs like Oxfam America, Doctors... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
to People Student Ambassador Program. Activities will introduce alumni children to Chinese culture and provide a glimpse of daily life in Shang-hai. This program will run parallel to the conference. The Clubs and Associations Committee,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
its reasonable hours allowed Cohen time to raise her children, Amanda (now a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council) and Eli (JD/MBA ’06). During her NTHP tenure, from 1980 to 1993, she focused on developing programs to preserve historic homes, buildings, and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
emerging technologies to innovate and create differentiated customer experiences, people in organizations have to work differently, Hill says. Corporations are finding that digital transformation often demands View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
innovative new programs, such as the club's "Books for Breakfast" series, which features authors from the cutting edge of academia and business. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter kicked off the program last year with Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS and several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
of an American icon. Part corporate biography and part memoir of a rare CEO/consultant partnership, this book chronicles Harley-Davidson's transition from a command-and-control culture to an open View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
organizations in the world that has the ability to transcend cultural and generational boundaries through its performances. The music of the choir gives joy, peace, and healing to its listeners, and [there’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
colleagues [at Cornell University] were studying whether spending money on experiences makes you happier than buying stuff for yourself. From those studies, we learned that—across cultures and income levels—giving is better than buying... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
impact as a specialist than as a generalist. One of the themes we talked about a lot at Yahoo! is fast failure. You want to create a culture that encourages taking risks and trying new things. If they don’t work out or fail, which many of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
feel very proud of their work." For Horn, these social and cultural activities help him keep a sense of perspective in the mercurial movie business. For Horn, these social and cultural activities help him... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
presence “somewhere” in Asia and “somewhere” in Europe in addition to our offices in New York. Facing the same concern as you—how do we make sure that our value proposition and brand remain constant across the regions—we took our time and concentrated on finding a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
special interest groups (SIGs) to accommodate its broad constituency. The North Shore Chapter, for example, caters to members who live outside the city proper, while the Chicago Society gathers for cultural or social events in and around... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Collegiate Research Services, designed to help all students, including disadvantaged minorities and the first-generation college bound. Over time, my initial focus on students has evolved into a larger mission: helping organizations build... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
experiences: identity groups (i.e., race, cultural background, gender, age) and organization groups (defined by shared task roles and hierarchical position). From psychoana-lytic theory, the authors draw on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
at the economy’s peak and he was proven right. What makes Goldman special? All other firms on the Street are very good and proud of what they do, but if they are candid, they’ll admit Goldman is the best organized and has the best people... View Details
Keywords: Finance