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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

position. “We both recognized that Leadership Fellows is great for this kind of work – everyone benefits. The organization gets financial support from HBS for the first-year salary, and a pipeline of talent they wouldn’t have access to... View Details

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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog

Under 40 Business School Professor in 2017 by Poets & Quants, and a top teacher at Harvard by CNBC. Dr. Cohen frequently advises government organizations in the US and abroad, including the United States... View Details

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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

result in a quantitative impact. It's a mindset that is pretty applicable to a lot of nonprofit organizations these days, and WCS is no exception. Volunteer engagement is another area where I hope to make a difference. How do you activate... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

Three conferences sponsored by student organizations at HBS in January brought together alumni, students, and experts from business, government, and academia to discuss a wide range of topical issues. Summaries of those conferences... View Details

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

It was excerpted from the authors' article "Pricing to Create Shared Value" in the June 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that, “It appears to me that our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Dec 2003
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Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

Summing Up What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund? In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column generated from individual... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Oct 2024
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Van den Ende Rozen

wherein living organisms that are natural enemies of invasive insects are distributed throughout the rose crop in order to prevent infestations and damage to the flowers. This number is expected to increase to 100% nature-based pest... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

Jerry R. Green, using game-theory insights, studies the negotiation process within agencies as he looks for ways that business or government can make the right decision for an organization as a whole while... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Aug 2005
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Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Challenging a concerning proposal Jordan studies how individuals and organizations manage their reputations. This research asked whether the desire to look good in the eyes of others might motivate people to indiscriminately share news... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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The International Criminal Court

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Natalie Kindred

This Case describes a controversial 2010 decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and alludes to some of the broader challenges of building international institutions. The case briefly highlights certain milestones in international relations preceding the... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; International Relations; Political Elections; Courts and Trials; Organizations; Kenya

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United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States

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09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

create a $30 million fund to provide strategic national support to a surge of younger veterans running for Congress in the 2018 elections. The organization focuses on what Barcott calls “next-generation” veterans—military personnel who... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

International, a microfinance organization focusing on Latin America. Last fall, a series of seminars on business and global poverty was held; more conferences and seminars are set for the coming months. Baker Library is building an... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

organizations, this has meant ratcheting up project management skills, processes, and governance structures within the organization by implementing a project management office (PMO). Unfortunately, there is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

hospital jointly owned by Tenet Healthcare and John Muir Health. She eventually became chairperson of the joint venture’s board. While continuing her work as a hospital CEO, Lucena deepened her involvement in governance by joining several... View Details

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

After having an appointment at Carnegie Mellon University and having taught back at Stanford, I came to HBS in 1996. My intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

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