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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
can achieve, which businesses they typically involve, what structures companies can choose from, and how to implement divestitures to maximize financial benefits. Organized into sections dedicated to strategy, structure, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of environmental protection. Reinhardt is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published by HBS Press this year. He... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission to provide education and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
opportunity you both saw. Who is the audience you’re going after, and what was the gap you saw in the market? MA: This is going to sound crazy but our target is the 200 million people who read the news online in the United States. The gap we saw is that staying View Details
Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; Information; Information
- November 2001
- Background Note
Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption
By: Joseph Hinsey, Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
In the 1970s, a series of unpleasant revelations about corporate conduct, culminating in the public disclosure about unsavory business practices abroad by more than 400 U.S. corporations, jarred popular perceptions concerning business ethics. Congress responded by... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Laws and Statutes; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information Industry; United States
Hinsey, Joseph, Guhan Subramanian, and Michelle Kalka. "Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-062, November 2001.
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 03 Feb 2023
- News
Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road
companies and organizations that are decades ahead of the US in how they are thinking about and implementing technologies and processes to mitigate climate change. Professor Shih documented the trip in two videos. Watch the videos. Ghana... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
Duane Highley (AMP 177, 2009) is president and CEO for the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation. In this interview, he explains how the organization is united behind a common purpose—the concept of energy efficiency as a benefit to... View Details
- 27 Jan 2012
- News
Early-Stage Incubator Launches at Harvard
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2023 - 27 Apr 2023
- Conference Presentation
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: The Paradoxical Effect & Impact on Security
By: J. Carlos Vega, Hise O. Gibson, Nicole Gilmore and Larry Whiteside Jr.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) is necessary to create the world class teams we need to defend against advanced threats and adversaries; however, the approach that most take often fails spectacularly. The panel challenges the current practices, the failings, and... View Details
"Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: The Paradoxical Effect & Impact on Security." Paper presented at the RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 24–27, 2023.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation
By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive
corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks.
We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing), and Marco Iansiti. "Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-122, May 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
Jared Henderson (MBA 2007) was executive director of Teach for America in Arkansas until winter 2017, when he announced a run for governor of the state. In this interview, conducted during Spring Reunion in May 2017, Henderson discusses the need and the opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s. When the View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
With 12 HBS colleagues, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) served as organizer and guide for more than 80 MBA students on the annual trek to Japan. A US resident since she was six, Tamaki says, "I have an appreciation for Japan from both an insider's... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
personally special as we co-wrote a chapter together in a past book, Confidence, focusing on Nelson Mandela’s leadership lessons for organizations and businesses seeking large scale transformation. The Fearless View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Patriots Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty. What started with the couple grew to five staffers working out of the couple’s home. Today, the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- July 1997
- Case
Ford Motor Company: Maximizing the Business Value of Web Technologies
One of the largest companies in the world decides to aggressively deploy Web technology and must manage and support the new technology. A discussion of infrastructure renewal, application development, extranets, and content management is included. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
Austin, Robert D., and Mark J. Cotteleer. "Ford Motor Company: Maximizing the Business Value of Web Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 198-006, July 1997.
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Field Study
Last fall’s Harvard-Yale football game (10–zip, Crimson ) marked the fortieth anniversary of Harvard’s famous 29-29 “victory” over the Elis. HBS later became a tiebreaker of sorts: Five players from Yale’s 1968 team went on to get MBAs at HBS, compared to four from the... View Details