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Emily Hannenberg

that I loved helping leaders be successful even more." Leading in a business context Emily's enthusiasm for coaching, paired with "a desire to change gears from the military to business,"... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

18 Sep 2017
News

Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member Howard Stevenson met individually with more than 1,000 alumni... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Scientific Research and Development Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

Skydeck podcast BRUNELL: Human motivation for supporting or catalyzing change only comes from within. We can’t “make” people’s behavior or “mandate” mindset. Citizens must have reason to care, want, and believe in the View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Studying Japan from the Inside

Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), executive director of Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Office in Tokyo, answers questions about business changes in Japan and the School’s research there. Q: Tell us about an interesting recent case in... View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2003
News

Joe Badaracco

School, I started thinking about teaching.” Badaracco earned his DBA at HBS in 1981 and joined the faculty that same year. Today, he’s the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics and a widely respected author and expert on business ethics and leadership. “I think what’s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

changed the accounting standards of various country-pairs, we examine how two sources of changes in accounting distance-(i) change due to IFRS adoption of the investee and (ii)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2021
Case

Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance

By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

The two vignettes within “Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance” (HBS No. 122-024) present various issues relating to governance in professional service firms (“PSFs”). In the first, the Managing Director of a U.S. consulting firm contemplates whether to... View Details

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01 Mar 2006
News

Faculty Books

From Resource Allocation to Strategy by Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert (Oxford University Press) Drawing on thirty years of research on resource allocation, Professor Bower and Assistant Professor Gilbert discuss the structural characteristics of resource... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

alumni would look back and say, ‘This education enabled me to lead a fulfilling life that I couldn’t have led otherwise.’ That’s the big ambition here,” says HBS’s Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Mead Treadwell

subsistence culture, or jeopardize international freedom of the seas. Global warming will eventually lead to significant increases in resource exploitation in the Arctic. When might that begin? Much of the economic development going on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

technologies that changed how or what we see, we changed ourselves and the world around us. Visual technologies propelled the human journey from walking apes to masters of nature to self-obsessed screen... View Details

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

much larger piece of the company that he appears to be leading toward ruin. It's true that the value of John's existing holding of options and shares will vary considerably with changes in stock price. But... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

23 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books

leaders who are true to themselves and lead from a place of integrity. Yet it can be difficult not to emulate others who have been successful and find yourself straying from your own values. In True North, Bill George outlines a five... View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face of a changing climate. Mike's role... View Details

March 2024
Case

Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan

Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore

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Educators

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

job quantity and quality is a function of growth and productivity. If growth occurs that is roughly equivalent to increased productivity, little change occurs in the number of jobs although the quality of those jobs (assuming that higher... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

important to the company.” A precisely defined deliverable – such as a proposal, a presentation, or a product/process design – keeps interns focused, and conveys a seriousness of purpose both parties respect. Defining success at an African start-up In Nairobi, Kenya,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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