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- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
insufficient. Fulfillment of community needs such as clean air and human rights is every bit as important. This concept offers multinationals a mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency.... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
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Class Profile | MBA
18 (3%) The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides federal guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. HBS is required to follow these standards which allow students to... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Adding Value
Mary Callahan Erdoes Her first experience managing money was as a six-year-old helping her grandparents balance their checkbook. Today, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase's $2.2 trillion money... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 16 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Rituals of Case Method Teaching
him to every class he has ever taught at the School. It’s a tool that helps Norton center himself before he digs into a lively case discussion—a reliable ritual that ensures a successful session. The role of such a device is one he recognizes from years of research on... View Details
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Matthew Boys
“I had a funny, checkered route to HBS,” Matt Boys says, of his path toward an MBA; and, in some respects, it’s true. He edited the music section of the school paper at the London School of Economics and helped run a student nightclub, booking bands from the U.S. In... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
for entrepreneurship are there,” says Victoria Ivashina, the Lovett- Learned Professor of Finance, who studies the MENA region and serves as faculty chair of the School’s Middle East and North Africa Research Center (MENARC). Ivashina points View Details
Arnold O. Beckman
Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 29 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Celebrates Pride Month
closeted. We are reminded during this time of year that "being a leader who makes a difference in the world" is sometimes accomplished simply by being yourself. Sam Bokher Experiencing my first Pride month in the U.S. made me realize how... View Details
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
beginning to embrace the nascent Internet. Kilar’s class was the first to be given an email address—in this case, an AOL address because HBS addresses did not yet exist—and access to the Web. In a second-year class taught by Jeffrey... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
a pioneering program at Uber to help thousands of employees prepare to succeed and lead. Back in 2001, having just completed her third year of teaching at HBS, she wouldn’t answer to “Professor Frei,” encouraging students to use her first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details
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Kristen Jones
performance and direction skills to retail, first at Sears then at DrJays.com, where she became the designated “women’s buyer.” “Most of the time,” Kristen says, “merchandisers become expert in one particular product, like handbags or... View Details
William Steere, Jr.
Steere was strongly devoted to making Pfizer the number one pharmaceutical company in the United States. His first task at the pharmaceutical company was to cut the 40% of its business that was unrelated to what was considered its core... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
move on, become more ambitious." Nike and Dow Chemical are examples of companies that have made it to the innovation stage. After Nike faced accusations about violations of human rights by... View Details
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eBook Access
available for free through the Project MUSE platform. Content includes research in the humanities and social sciences, from university presses, scholarly societies, and related not-for-profit publishers. The Boston Public... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
privatize water services." A big fish in the industry is Rebecca Mark (MBA '90), chairman and CEO of Azurix, an affiliate of energy giant Enron that she helped create and which recently went public. (See first item, preceding page.) "We... View Details
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Arjun Goyal
Trust Centre for Human Genetics, a new door opened for Arjun. “It was my first exposure to research,” he says. “It fascinated me that the test tube in my hand could hold a new cure or the next new therapy... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
force in the Gulf. Had Bush first approached a deeply skeptical Congress, agreement on the use of force would have been unlikely. A negative vote would have stymied any subsequent American efforts to build an international coalition.... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius