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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Appointed Managing Director, Alcan, Limerick, Ireland 2002 Appointed CEO, Alcan Primary Metal Group 2006 Named one of “50 Women to Watch” by WSJ 2007 Appointed Chief Executive, Anglo American 2008 Implements “zero harm” policy to improve... View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
service on the Internet "could never have happen(ed) before and pose(s) a threat to brand loyalty." If there is a weakness in your offering you are at risk. Others were reluctant to reach such a judgment. In concluding that this... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate
services, non-profits, or a business, so I took advantage of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program. The program offered me the unique opportunity to work in government through the MBTA at a time when they were looking to try something new and innovative and use technology... View Details
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Michael R. Bloomberg
Bloomberg Philanthropies works to improve lives by focusing on the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, public health, and accelerating the pace of Black wealth accumulation. In 2017, together with Harvard Kennedy... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
improve customer value and help with digital transformation. It was a fantastic summer over which I learned a lot about myself, and worked with a great team. After HBS, I joined McKinsey full-time as a consultant and spent a lot of time... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
be counterproductive if enough participants (especially those who don’t win) perceive that subjectivity (introduced via discretion) adds unfairness. We show that, on average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
that IBM needs to make adjustments to improve its business performance relative to the DNG's constituent group. For example, a DNG of IBM employees with disabilities, aware that IBM possessed certain products, services, and expertise that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
iPhoto, etc., and become more of a service and software digital home application company. The strategy going forward is going to be more like a consumer electronics company, making hardware and software,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
In his chapter "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity" from the book The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution: Brookings Task Force on the Internet, HBS professor Andrew McAfee, discusses how the... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
around you, and improving leadership skills. Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples, from the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster to Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, Professor Bazerman diagnoses what information went ignored in these... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental problems, however, because environmental problems often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
global production of plastic packaging is on course to quadruple by 2050—no amount of conventional recycling will get us out of this mess. Instead, experts say we need to improve our mopping-up efforts through recycling, upcycling, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon purchasing a View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of shaping participants' future trajectories through boosting future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
broad view of business as business.” As a result, Donham in the early 1930s renewed and elaborated his previous calls for business schools to aid in transforming management into a profession — not a mere technical specialization or guild, but rather a group... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
opportunities to use new technologies for enhancing financial inclusion. By working with communities of crypto business practitioners, the researchers aim to help shape the way this industry evolves, inform regulators, and improve the... View Details