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Commencement 2016 Address | About
brightly in her Class day remarks yesterday. Beyond this remembrance of how your group dealt with an episode of profound sadness, I hope you graduate today with an equally profound happiness, with a deep reservoir of warm memories of your... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
marketing in courses with professors Das Narayandas, Forest L. Reinhardt, and (now Dean) Nitin Nohria. Kovatch embraced equally the academic and social aspects of campus life, volunteering as social chair and traveling to Japan,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
whom he regularly rubs shoulders. Instead, they include the likes of Dick Serafin, a production manager at Time Warner, and Sherill R. Heron and Jonathan A. Kraft, HBS classmates whose support he is "determined to pay back." Clinkscales's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
leader, speaker, educator, and teaching artist, Manso-Brown educates individuals and groups on social injustice and creating equality through workshops and through her art. STRATEGIES TO BE ACTIVELY ANTI-RACIST Manso-Brown’s workshops on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
continues. "We ought to think about the optimal way of caring for a particular type of patient and then how to pay for that optimal way rather than say, 'Here's the payment regime, what can we do in this context?' "For me, the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
vegan, et cetera. And millennials are most responsive to sustainability actions and messaging as well. They are the ones that are most likely to pay extra for sustainable products. We talk a lot about willingness to View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
within stores. Align incentives within your organization and in the supply chain. Use technology judiciously and pay attention to emerging new technologies, whose value might still not be apparent. Explain the changes you are making to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
particularly women of color, were more likely to be employed by the industries hardest hit by shutdowns, including leisure, hospitality, and retail. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
distinct from the CEO. Raymond Gilmartin, Merck's former chairman, president, and CEO, makes the case for a lead director who acts as a liaison to the CEO but is the equal of other board members. (Gilmartin is also a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
the type or location of their homes. In cities, renters and those who live in multi-unit dwellings do not currently have a charging infrastructure. “If you don’t have a dedicated parking spot, you won’t have equal access,” Erika said. “If... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sovereign lands on the ocean floor — at least the size of California and rich in resources — to add to the territory of the United States. In fact, after acceding to the treaty, and completing our mapping of the coastal United States, we anticipate adding to U.S.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
industry is reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal - and inexpensive - chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
these characteristics to influence prices. For example, consider an advertiser that is the sole bidder for a given term, e.g., a product that it alone sells. That advertiser's payment to Google does not reflect bidding to beat a competitor. Rather, that advertiser... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
service representatives to handle the majority of calls on their own, without transferring queries further down the line, it is evidence that the company places equal focus on its representatives (so-called "employee... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
no word for “privacy” in Japanese. Indeed, the language is often opaque, even for those who are fluent, but at the same time it’s very precise when it comes to technical and logistical details. Hierarchy and equality coexist. It’s... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
caps, for instance—"that we never see. Many bottlers are in a supply chain of their own." Action Steps Despite these challenges, there are many ways that companies can take steps to battle HIV and AIDS, summarized Ruggie: Pay... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace