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01 May 2013
News

Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001

Now serving as Hoplite’s managing director and chief administrative officer, the busy New Yorker rounds out her professional and parenting resumes with philanthropic and advisory roles at institutions such as the American Museum of View Details

30 Apr 2019
News

Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile

key if you’re looking for a real partner under any circumstances. The idea is to connect you with the people that you might have met naturally years in the future right now.” To begin their journey of vulnerability, Hinge hopefuls must... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Research Available on World Wide Web

development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking? Interested in updating yourself about information technology in the organization, the changing View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters. As such, “helping people through times of crisis is second nature to Filipinos,” says Alicia Morales (AMP 186), co-president of the HBS Club of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

Wendell (MBA '76) Stacey Lawson (MBA '96) Les Vadasz (107th AMP) Gregory Slayton (MBA '90) This fertile ground that just a few decades ago was covered with orchards now bears fruit of a different variety—one that is ripe for study. The distinctive View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

a variety of environmental initiatives that he has undertaken over the years. His devotion to preserving the island's natural beauty as well as the Fijian culture has earned Turtle Island accolades that include the 1999 Green Hotelier... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1997
News

Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and View Details

15 Sep 2015
Blog Post

On the Road: HBS in Israel

Tel Aviv. 30 women attended and learned a lot from our alumnae and incoming students. There was great energy in the room for this special event. What questions were asked during the event? There was lots of interest in the great work we do in Social Enterprise. HBS is... View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)

strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J. Makowski Co. Inc. helped bring... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health

thereby increasing competition, development, and production. Some of this activity, Gilmartin observed, could be stimulated by private-public partnerships and judicious government involvement in funding basic research and making binding purchase commitments where View Details

Keywords: Merck; public health; global public health; vaccines; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

2021
Working Paper

Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan

This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Climate Risk; Corporate Accountability; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; United States

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19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

the next day you want it again. That’s the nature of all addiction, and success addiction is no different. People get on what we call the “hedonic treadmill,” where you’re running and running and running, and you become deeply addicted to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

02 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Why Does Your Company Exist?

Insights piece, discover what HBS Professor Ranjay Gulati's new research has to say about the nature of deep purpose and how it is benefiting today's companies. You'll learn how your organization can get started in its quest to find... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Portrait Project

Jimmy Tran

nature as I tinker behind facts and figures to determine the right course of action. Yet even in the most technical problems, I seek out the human element of my work. No matter where life takes me, I will cling to the zeal and excitement... View Details

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

local philanthropies, and other partners who might help them in the quest to steel their cities against future natural disasters. The takeaway: It takes a village to keep a city. And applicants responded in kind; the 13 winners came with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

managing change. Instead, they develop many disconnected initiatives to bring about change — initiatives that by their piecemeal nature are doomed to failure. "In light of that," Beer explains, "we formulated this profiling... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

do you think? Original Article Sometimes it's the smallest books on our shelves that contain the most provocative ideas. Take, for example, a little book, The Nature of Mass Poverty, based on series of lectures given by John Kenneth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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